Children's Worship Launch!

God works in amazing ways.  Last year Gold Ave Church saw an increasing number of families with young kids at church.  The need for children to learn to experience God in an age appropriate setting and for the parents to be able to focus and participate more in the church service became apparent.  The church leadership decided to spend a few months praying for God's will and asked God to send people to help start this and other ministries to children and youth.

At the same time we were still in Romania preparing for our return home.  We were asking God to prepare us for a new ministry and were trusting that when we returned he would show us what that would be.  Only two weeks after stepping off the plane, through many "chance" meetings, we got to know the pastors of this church.  We felt God strongly leading us and answering our prayers and the prayers of the church!

For the past few months we planned for the launch of children's worship with a great team of people who are passionate about ministering to kids.  A week ago we were able to launch and praise God, it was awesome!

We started out with 15 kids in total and they all had a great time!  We learned about God through a lesson from the Jesus Storybook Bible.  This has great pictures and tells the whole story of the bible as God's story, and each chapter points toward Jesus. 

Everyone enjoyed singing songs with motions and having some freedom to have fun while praising God!

The last part is a special time of prayer journaling where the kids are encouraged to listen to what God is telling them through the Bible story.  We really want to raise these kids up as followers of Jesus who are able to listen to and follow God's voice.  We have a prayer time at the end where we encourage the kids to pray for one another.  This is where the biggest learning curve is for the kids.  We as leaders are modeling listening prayer and spoken prayer, would you pray that the kids catch on quickly?  Please pray that they stay excited and continue to enjoy deepening their relationship with God.

Praise God for his guiding hand in the process of launching this ministry, and ask that he continues to bless it.  We prayerfully look forward to many more ways that we can minister to the kids of the church and neighborhood.  Please continue to pray for God's leading.  Thanks for praying and for joining in what God is doing here!