The Chosen Adventures


The Chosen Adventures is an American animated Christian children's television series created by filmmaker Dallas Jenkins. It is an animated spinoff of the live-action Christian historical drama television series The Chosen. The series is the first in a series of Bible-inspired stories that is co-produced by Amazon MGM Studios and Jenkins' company 5&2 Studios. The series depicts the life of Jesus through the eyes of two children named Abby and Joshua. The voice cast includes Jonathan Roumie as Jesus, Romy Fay as Abby, Paul Walter Hauser as Sheep, Elizabeth Tabish as Mary Magdalene, Yvonne Orji as Pigeon, Danny Nuci as Abba and Jordin Sparks as Fish. The series was directed by Keith Alcorn, and released on Amazon Prime Video on October 17, 2025.

Premise

The Chosen Adventures follows the adventures of nine-year old Abby, her friend Joshua, and their animal friends Sheep and Pigeon during the time of the New Testament Gospels. They meet Jesus during their adventures in Galilee. The series seeks to teach young viewers about faith, friendship, God's love and Jesus's message.

Voice cast and characters

Starring

Recurring and guests

Production

Development

On September 20, 2024 Dallas Jenkins announced that his production company 5&2 Studios was developing several spinoff TV projects set in the universe of The Chosen TV series at the 2024 ChosenCon fan convention in Orlando. These TV projects included The Chosen Adventures, a children's animated comedy television series featuring two young children from Capernaum named Abby and Joshua, who encounter Jesus and His disciples.
During an interview with the Catholic News Agency, Jenkins said that the inspiration for The Chosen Adventures came from Jesus interacting with several children including Abigail and Joshua in "Jesus Loves the Little Children," the third episode of the first season of The Chosen. Due to favorable reception from both adult and children viewers, Jenkins decided to create an animated television series featuring the two characters, stating that "it really allow us to explore a whimsy and a playfulness that you can really dig into with animation in a fresh way." Jenkins also said that the show sought to appeal to both children and adult viewers by "grounding it in The Chosen way." Jenkins said that the animated series' aim was to promote the Gospel message and foster curiosity about Jesus among children by blending "humor, heart and spiritual truth." He added that the series sought to portray Jesus as "real, relatable, and life-changing." Jenkins also said that the series strove to remain faithful to the Scriptures while incorporating colorful animation and comedic elements like talking animals.
The series was co-produced by 5&2 Studios and Amazon MGM Studios. Jenkins served as executive producer while Ryan Swanson served as writer, executive producer, and showrunner. Other executive producers included Chris Juen, Chad Gundersen, Keith Alcorn, Kellen Erskine, and Derral Eves. The series was produced by Erin Elizabeth Gardner and co-produced by Myesha Gosselin.

Casting

In mid-September 2024, Deadline announced that the voice case members would include Paul Walter Hauser, Yvonne Orji, and Jordin Sparks, along with several Chosen cast members including Jonathan Roumie, Paras Patel, Elizabeth Tabish, Noah James, Joey Vahedi, Yasmine Al-Bustami, Brandon Potter and George H. Xanthis. In September 2025, Hauser was named as Sheep, Orji as Pigeon, Romy Fay as Abby, Jude Zarzaur as Joshua, Danny Nuci as Abba, and Zehra Fazal as Eema. Sparks was later cast as the character Fish.
Sparks said that she was drawn to the project by its mix of humor and faith, stating that "I love anytime I can connect what I do for a living—acting, humor—with something that infuses the world with a little more Jesus..."

Filming

The series currently consists of 14 11-minute episodes.

Release

In February 2025, 5&2 Studios entered into a wide-ranging deal with Amazon MGM Studios that would give Amazon Prime Video exclusive distribution rights for The Chosen Adventures and other future film projects set in The Chosen universe including The Chosen in the Wild with Bear Grylls and Joseph of Egypt. The series premiered exclusively on Prime Video on October 17, 2025 in the United States, United Kingdom, Latin America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and sub-Saharan Africa. On October 31, the Christian streaming company Minno was granted distribution rights to the series.

Reception

Kate Lucky of Christianity Today gave the series a mixed review. She praised the first season's fidelity to the Bible, the colorful animation and the incorporation of slapstick humor and comedy through the talking Sheep and Pigeon characters. Lucky was critical of the voice cast's Israeli accents, the cameo appearances of Chosen cast members without proper context and argued that the series could have used a narrator to provide context to the series' Biblical historical and cultural context. Lucky however also praised the series as an opportunity for parents to address their children's questions about the Bible and Christian faith.
Joseph Holmes of Religion Unplugged gave the series a mixed review, describing it as a family-friendly children's version of The Chosen and comparing it with other Christian children's animation like VeggieTales and The King of Kings. He criticized the short 12-minute timeframe of the episodes, the formulaic story structure, and opined that its PG rating would limit its target audience. Holmes however praised the quality of the series' animation style and the comic-relief humor provided by the characters of Sheep and Pigeon. He described the series as a standout in both faith-based animation and Christian children content in an increasingly saturated faith-based entertainment market.
Maddy Casale of Decider gave the series a mixed review. She praised Hauser and Orji's performances as the characters Sheep and Pigeon for providing comic relief that would appeal to both children and adults. However, she opined that the series and its characters lacked enough originality, depth and entertainment to appeal to its target audience of pre-teen children. Casale wrote that the series would have better appeal to religiously-minded adults due to its incorporation of Jesus's teachings, historical references and one-liner jokes.