GROWING SEEDS: "Wednesday Night Live"

KIDS....KIDS......KIDS.....

When I was in my early 30's, I was asked to head up the primary age kids (7-10 yr olds) in the church I was a member of at that time.  I must admit; kids this age scared the bajeebees out of me.  Never having had children of my own, I didn't know anything about kids of ANY age.  I just knew there was a desperate need for someone to put time into these kids and God was asking ME to take it on.  And the neatest thing happened; I fell in love with these kids and their quirky ways, their insightful thoughts and questions and learned more from them than they ever learned from me.

A little over 5 years ago, Craig and Pam Greenberg moved to Mt. Vernon and they, too, heard that distinct voice of God calling them to work with the kids in our church and community.  They started a kids program on Wednesday nights with 6 kids and within the second year, the attendance had doubled.  Today, five years later, there is anywhere between 35 to 45 kids attending each Wednesday night.  Their main goal?  To teach Grace and Salvation through Jesus.  They have found that by lovingly teaching them Bible stories through games and activities that, most likely many of these kids had never heard before, they were lighting that spark inside each child to want to have a relationship with their Heavenly Father. 

And the kids are LOVING it!  They not only have learned about the life of Christ through Bible stories, they are also memorizing scriptures, going on local mission trips, collecting items to send to third world countries, learning songs and putting on "Musicals" that they are sharing with us today, as well as other churches, about the joy they have found in the Lord. 

"We stress that by presenting their musical to others, they will be following Jesus’ command to tell others about Him and how they too can have eternal life.  We want them to realize early in their lives that God has blessed them with many talents and they are to use them to evangelize and bring glory to their Heavenly Father."  Pam Greenberg

Pam and Craig listened to God's voice.  They recognized and gladly gave of the time God had given them on this earth to further His work. 

Remember; these kids are the very people who will be sitting in your pew when your time on this earth is over.

"Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it."
Proverbs 22:6