\u201cIf we touched one child it is worth it\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nIt is worth it to touch the life of one child. We do not know what that child will become. Maybe this child might become the next Billy Graham or something. But why should we only touch the life of one child during the event? While we are touching their live why not touch the lives of hundreds more. If only one child is reached we should ask ourselves how we can reach more next time and make the adjustments to our program, advertising, and marketing of the event to the community to reach more people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We recently ministered at a church that had us in and had small crowds each night. Mostly church kids and a few un churched friends attended. The same children came forward each evening during the invitation to be born again. A few people that did not attend the church came forward, but it was mostly the children from their church. I would say around 20 children were born again despite having around 50 children respond to the invitation during the 3 day event. I could see where the pastor might be discouraged and consider not having this type of event in the future because of the cost of the program and the results he saw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No one knew that a friend of mine from facebook attended the service from a neighboring town one of the evenings with a group of children including her 7 year old daughter. She had seen on face book where we were going to be ministering at this church and wanted to come and check out our ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the event I received the following e-mail from my facebook friend\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Thanks for inviting us. I’m sorry we couldn’t make all three days. The kids I brought LOVED it, they want you to come to our church. My daughter who’s 7 also came with me on Monday night. She has been telling people in her class and in our congregation how she is “born again” and “how God gave her a clean heart”. This is HUGE coming from a very Traditional Presbyterian Church. So thank you. You have encouraged me to change my Sunday School curriculum and change the direction of my ministry to be more evangelism based. I’ll be back in touch soon after speaking with our finance committee to discuss scheduling a Jubilee Gang event at our church.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This was worth the whole event to see the lives of these young people changed and to see the possibility of an entire children\u2019s ministry at another church become more evangelistic because of the children\u2019s pastor attending this meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I also received a testimony from a children\u2019s pastor in VA that was born again at a Kids Crusade at a church that he did not attend and never attended except for the Kid\u2019s Crusade where he was born again. Below is his story\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhen I was 5 years old my parents took me to see a traveling children\u2019s evangelist who was ministering in a local church. At the end of the service I asked Jesus into my heart for the first time. My family and I never went back to that church but found ourselves planted in another local church where we grew in Christ. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I often think about that first church where I found Jesus. I\u2019m so grateful that church had a kingdom mindset when it came to outreach. Many churches see the goal of outreach as a way to boost attendance numbers. Outreaches are evaluated by measurable returns, but the Bible reminds us that we\u2019re here to build a kingdom\u2026not just our own church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m grateful for ministries like the Jubilee Gang who spend their time spreading the seed of God\u2019s word into young hearts. And I\u2019m grateful that this first church had a kingdom mindset that allowed me to hear the gospel for the first time. Their measurable return may be considered insufficient by many churches today but I will be eternally grateful to God for them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is what it is all about folks! As a result of this church being kingdom minded this young child was born again and is now a children\u2019s pastor at a large church that is affecting hundreds if not thousands of lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It would be wrong to not give a testimony from a church that did not see growth from a Kids crusade at their church. I received the following letter from a church in OK where a child was born again during the kids crusade and went home and told his mother about Christ and led her to the lord\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOur pastor’s wife was teaching a Wednesday night class and a mom was helping. The mom brought in her form that we have everyone fill out before they help in children’s church. Pastor’s wife looked at the form and saw that the mom got saved in October and asked her about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The mom’s two kids came to the crusade and heard about being born again. The boy came to the front to pray. (That’s awesome at that) That night when they got home, they told their mom about being born again and the mom got saved in her living room that night and has been faithful to church ever since.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We would have never have know this if the pastor\u2019s wife had not asked some questions. The kingdom was affected by this event!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When evaluating events and programs let make sure that we are not cutting a program that is affecting the Kingdom when we do not see our church numbers increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By Jerry Moyer The Jubilee Gang www.jubileegang.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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