Jesus said unless we become like a child we will miss the Kingdom of God. Here is my paraphrase of what he said: If we don’t spend time with children and learn how to be youth-full, then we will miss seeing the splendor of what God is doing in our hearts and the world.
Children and students are natural teachers and leaders. They are funny. They are smart. They write stories with words and/or pictures. They motivate us with simple yet incredible speeches. They bring the Kingdom of God alive in so many ways.
You, too, are a natural teacher and leader. You have years of earned wisdom. You have insight from your many lived experiences. You can be funny, sad, and happy. You can laugh and you can cry. And when we put children, students, and adults as teachers and learners…Jesus is there blessing the children and the adults together. That makes for a great experience week after week. And isn’t it interesting that this is also what we as adults want as well? What if it was a young person that offered you such compassion one Sunday morning? How awesome would that be?
All of this to say that children and students are not looking for a team of biblical experts who can churn out religious information to talk to them about.
Instead, they want us to talk
with
and listen to them. That means the only requirement is a willingness on our part to show up with an intention - to love them for who they are and assure them of God’s love and presence within their heart.
Every week there is an excellent “turn-key” experience provided for you, including a powerful, brief animated Bible lesson, a service project to support our neighbors and neighborhoods, and engaging age-level experiences prepared by our incredible staff.
We can do this. We can meet our goal of 65 volunteers to be with our children and students on Sundays as your schedule allows.
“We” is the key word. Last week we had 10 people step forward to help. Now we only need 55.
All that I am asking is that you prayerfully consider being one of the next 55 people who want to love our children and students well, so that together we learn just how fun, awesome, healing, life-changing, and relational God’s love is for all God’s children, which includes all of us, no matter our age.
Blessing and Gratitude Abound,
