Children are great change agents. We save ½ the world when we reach the children timely. In our bid to facilitate positive transformation in unreached communities, children are our sustainable strategy. In the communities were serve, children are second class beings. They are so insignificant and they are neglected in many ways. Even the church, is structured to attend to the needs of the adults. These little Christians do not have a place to call church. The children in the communities are groomed by unfair norms and traditions that are passed on unknowingly by parents and other elders in the community. These communities keep in a cycle of ignorance that keeps them bonded in poverty and disease.
Our intervention
Our children evangelism program caters for children from the age of 3 years. These children are clustered in their locations and come together in life bible churches near them. Each church runs a weekly children’s church (Sunday school).
Sunday school provides tailor made bible study lessons presented in colorful child friendly material and follow-up activity packages for the children to memorize scripture. Each Sunday, every child that attends is provided with a cup of porridge and a snack. Making Sunday a day to look forward to. During school holidays, the ministry organizes events which are 2 hour sessions of vacation bible school(VBS). These sessions include fun games and child based evangelism and teaching.
VBS sessions are carried out at every church location currently five church locations. And carried out twice a year and at the end of the year the events are crowned with the gift camp. The gift camp is a time of thanksgiving and celebration with the children as we end a successful year and graduate the children from one discipleship level to another. The gift camp hosts about 800 children from different communities. The camp is a 3 day camp where children come together in the morning and they go back in the evening each day. The children have sessions of learning from trained facilitators and have the opportunity to engage in kids fun activities.
Why we do children evangelism
In the world population at least 2 billion are children; the sad truth is that most of these children are unreached. As a ministry we have met children who are ignorant about who they are and what happens around them.
When they grow up and their decisions are based on the wrong teachings and practices by their parents’ because of this cycle these areas remain unreached and not transformed. Through the children evangelism, the ministry provides age appropriate discipleship which is intended to promote positive change of ideologies, norms and character for continuity in transformation of the community.
Our programs have an intentional focus on long-term discipleship to help children understand the big picture of the bible and their part in God’s story. The children have great potential as active agents in God’s mission. Children are a pool of influencers much needed in the chain of making disciples. These children therefore need to be reached uniquely. Our strategy is to reach children intentionally with the gospel of Christ in the simplest way at their level.
How to support children Evangelism?
- A onetime gift to support a children’s church
- 0.5 Usd for a cup of porridge and snack for one child.
- 10usd to provide coloring activity page for a Sunday school class
- Usd 2000 facilitates a children’s VBS event.
- One-time gift of Usd 2000 for the annual children’s gift camp.
- Monthly contributions for children’s event.