Once again, we had a busy day…when have we not had a busy day? However, being busy is a good thing, because it means we are doing something!
Sunday morning and Sunday night were the last two Kids' Crusade services. The theme of the morning was judgment, and the evening’s theme was the Call of God. Kids' Crusades here are a blast, as the kids and adults put everything into it and everyone has a good time.
For the Judgment theme, our main skit followed the lives of Melissa and Aaron, two kids who were both saved, but their lives took different paths. Melissa gave into temptation and died young as a result of the choices she made. Aaron made the right choices, and it resulted in him having a good life. Their judgment was shown at the end of the skit, Melissa being rejected and Aaron being received into Heaven. Then came the altar call, and it is wonderful to see little kids on their knees, praying and making sure their hearts are right with God.
That evening was the best night of the Kids' Crusade, hands down. Everything went great. The offering competition was that night, and although the boys were convinced they would win, we girls won! Katrina, being the girl captain, got to throw a pie in Daniel’s face, who was the boy’s captain. Bro. Brock and Aaron came up with games for the night, one of which being King Ooga Booga. The kids loved this one!
The serious part of the night came during the skits. Katrina did a skit on being close to God but getting separated from Him by distractions of the world. Next, Autumn did an object lesson about two people: one answered God’s call and one answered the call of the world. She chose two kids from the audience and had them hold cups over their head. She filled them up with water as she told the story. At the end, she poked holes in one cup, and water poured all over the boy! But when she went to the other cup and poked holes, no water came out, because the girl had given her life to God for His use.
Our last skit was the Call of God skit. Aaron was seeking for the call of God, but then the bad guy came by and told him he didn’t need to pray, but instead wait for a call on this giant telephone. Bro. Brock made a huge phone for this. It was awesome! Aaron spent his time waiting for a call, and missed opportunities to do God’s will. Eventually the phone rang, and the bad guy tried to get Aaron to do wrong things. But, Bro. Pahlman came to the rescue and explained how the call of God really works: by praying for it! God really moved in the altar call this night and several children were up front praying and crying. It was a great thing to see!
Our trip is half over, but we are still expecting God to do greater things!
Sunday morning and Sunday night were the last two Kids' Crusade services. The theme of the morning was judgment, and the evening’s theme was the Call of God. Kids' Crusades here are a blast, as the kids and adults put everything into it and everyone has a good time.
For the Judgment theme, our main skit followed the lives of Melissa and Aaron, two kids who were both saved, but their lives took different paths. Melissa gave into temptation and died young as a result of the choices she made. Aaron made the right choices, and it resulted in him having a good life. Their judgment was shown at the end of the skit, Melissa being rejected and Aaron being received into Heaven. Then came the altar call, and it is wonderful to see little kids on their knees, praying and making sure their hearts are right with God.
That evening was the best night of the Kids' Crusade, hands down. Everything went great. The offering competition was that night, and although the boys were convinced they would win, we girls won! Katrina, being the girl captain, got to throw a pie in Daniel’s face, who was the boy’s captain. Bro. Brock and Aaron came up with games for the night, one of which being King Ooga Booga. The kids loved this one!
The serious part of the night came during the skits. Katrina did a skit on being close to God but getting separated from Him by distractions of the world. Next, Autumn did an object lesson about two people: one answered God’s call and one answered the call of the world. She chose two kids from the audience and had them hold cups over their head. She filled them up with water as she told the story. At the end, she poked holes in one cup, and water poured all over the boy! But when she went to the other cup and poked holes, no water came out, because the girl had given her life to God for His use.
Our last skit was the Call of God skit. Aaron was seeking for the call of God, but then the bad guy came by and told him he didn’t need to pray, but instead wait for a call on this giant telephone. Bro. Brock made a huge phone for this. It was awesome! Aaron spent his time waiting for a call, and missed opportunities to do God’s will. Eventually the phone rang, and the bad guy tried to get Aaron to do wrong things. But, Bro. Pahlman came to the rescue and explained how the call of God really works: by praying for it! God really moved in the altar call this night and several children were up front praying and crying. It was a great thing to see!
Our trip is half over, but we are still expecting God to do greater things!