The message she preached to 20 million viewers during her nine years as head writer and executive producer of  “Touched By An Angel,” Martha Williamson now preaches to just two  – her daughters.

Of the things she and her husband, Jon Andersen, hope to teach the 9- and 7-year olds they adopted from China, the most important is “that in any circumstance, in any situation, seeking first the kingdom of God,” Williamson said in a phone interview with your Catholic Herald.

It’s the same message that “Touched By An Angel” exuded in each of its 212 hour-long episodes that ran on CBS from 1994 to 2003.

“We were taking a very Biblical point of view, and it was going to be a big leap,” explained Williamson, also president of Moon Water Productions. “There had certainly been shows about angels and supernatural people before on television but … our intention was to make God the star of the show. You never saw God on the show, but the message of God and his message that he exists and he loves you and he wants to be part of your life was going to be a recurring theme every week.”

Williamson said the responsibility that came with “Touched By An Angel” was great at a time when faith and spiritual matters “were assiduously avoided on television.”

“When you’re talking about people’s faith, you have tremendous responsibility and this was a television show that we knew was going to be groundbreaking because it was going to be unequivocally about God,” she explained of the show’s Judeo-Christian stance. “… (We) used words straight out of the Bible and put them in the mouths of the angels.”

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