Award-winning actress, director, and producer Candace Cameron Bure earned another award at the recent Movieguide Awards. Bure, however, spent much of her time at the microphone praying for those in attendance and watching.
“While we’re being honored and giving honor to so many, there’s no one that deserves higher honor than you,” prayed Bure.
After Receiving the ‘Grace Award,’ Candace Cameron Bure Leads the Movieguide Awards Audience in Prayer
Among a list of film and entertainment awards shows, there’s one that “sparks excitement year after year,” focusing on movies, television, actors, and studios “to honor faith and family films.” The Movieguide Awards aired on Great American Family on March 6. Top films included “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” (2024) and “Young Woman and the Sea.”
Top winners of the “Grace Award” included Bure for her role in “A Christmas Less Traveled” and Jesse Hutch for his work in “Christmas Under the Northern Lights,” as reported by Crosswalk. The “Grace Award” is given each year to actors “who exemplifies God’s grace and mercy toward us as human beings through their outstanding performance.”
“I think about what grace means, and God says that, ‘My grace is sufficient for you.’ Grace is something that I get that I don’t deserve,” Bure said during her acceptance speech.
And, Hutch mentioned the heart of God as he accepted his award.
“I recognize, through God’s grace, that no matter what’s in your bank account or what side you lean politically, or what your family history is, or what you’ve done in the past or what you think you’re going to do in the future,” Hutch said, “one thing that brings us together is the heart that God put in us.”
Bure was quite bold and authentic as she closed the night in prayer—including offering the gospel message.
“My prayer for today is that all the people in this room would be bold for you…in their scripts, their writing, their producing, and their directing,” Bure’s prayer began.
She continued to pray for those in the room who struggle with the day-to-day pressures of the industry. “The fear of man would not be bigger than the fear and awe in reverence of you, Lord,” she said.
“May every person in this room know who you are,” Bure prayed. “I pray that you would pursue every heart in this room and every heart that is watching this right now. Pursue relentlessly so that they may know your mercy and love and grace.”
Bure ended her prayer giving honor where honor was due. “While we’re being honored and giving honor to so many, there’s no one that deserves higher honor than you,” she said, “because you gave your one and only Son for all of us to die on the cross, to pay the penalty for our sin, so that we can be reconciled to you and justified before you on judgement day.”
