OK, I don't mean,Stop your Kids Church...I mean Stop and consider the current status of your Kids Church program, pause just a moment. Is it up-to-date? Do the kids like it? Does the staff like it? How about the parents? If you answer NO to any of these, consider a Kids Church (Re)Development Program. Is your Kids Church the same format you had when you were a kid? (yawn). Let's be honest.....today's kids church is not the same as it used to be. Times have changed. We have updated our sanctuaries, our gyms, our fellowship halls. We have put forth the best we can in our music, instruments, the quality of our singing and applied every bit of technology our churches can afford. We are able to impress every adult that walks through our doors. This has been a great achievement in our time and it's all well worth the effort....the buildings we gather into, that represent the House of God deserves the best we can make it.
However, as we stand proud and shake the hands of the saints and visitors as they come through the doors, we funnel our children into some unkept, dimly lit, dusty spare room....located in the far reaches of the building. Bare walls, 12 year old puppets that are missing an eye or nose, curriculum posters barely holding on for dear life from 1989, extension cords hanging from the ceilings that are connected to a light bulb that has another extension cord connected to a CD/radio player purchased at Big Lots about 9 years ago from a Sunday School cake auction fundraiser. Only one speaker works on it now, the CD player does not work but hey...the tape cassette player still does, it won't rewind but it plays our Sunday School tapes from 1974...all two of them! Off to the side, there's a fiberboard cabinet with no handles and a missing hinge, it's full of junk teachers supplies---scrap pieces of construction paper accumulated from the last 2 years, that nobody has ever reused....that pile has remained there with about 7 bottles of dried glue, partial balls of yarn and multiple broken crayons.
The kids will arrive just in time as that tiny window AC unit starts to spit out an air current to help circulate the stuffiness for all to enjoy.
Yep, they're gonna have a lot of fun back there! Don't you wish you were a kid again to.....(due to length of article, go to www.mocaby.com to finish)
There is an Apostolic revival sweeping our nation. Our children have a critical part - if we let them.
Acts 19:6 And when Paul had laid [his] hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
I have seen more than 1,000 children receive the Holy Ghost. I have seen them used in many gifts, lay hands on each other to receive the Holy Ghost and 8 yr old girls called to the ministry. Are we ready for the prophetic gift to come upon our children?
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