Piotrków-Trybunalski, Poland
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
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Winter Kid’s Club DAY #2
Earlier this week it was given to me to teach the older kids’ Bible lessons for today and for Friday. Today’s lesson was on the story of Absalom and had to do with how we can use our mouths for bad and how our words can hurt others. Friday’s lesson will be on the story of Jonah and how our feet can be used wrongly to run from God.
Earlier this week it was given to me to teach the older kids’ Bible lessons for today and for Friday. Today’s lesson was on the story of Absalom and had to do with how we can use our mouths for bad and how our words can hurt others. Friday’s lesson will be on the story of Jonah and how our feet can be used wrongly to run from God.
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I really spent a lot of time praying last night about how to give this lesson. I strayed a bit from the curriculum, which I was told that I can do. I talked to the young people about how external rules and trying as hard as we can to not talk badly will never bring change, but that what comes out of our mouths is a good determination of what is going on inside of us. I talked about the empty space inside of each of us that we have from birth that only Jesus can fill…like the missing puzzle piece. I talked about how our mouths can be used to ask Jesus to forgive us, and that Jesus used His mouth on the cross to say, “It is finished.” I talked about how our lives will only change from the inside out, including what comes out of our mouths…only through a personal, hand-holding relationship with Christ. Not only this, but that when we ask Jesus, the missing puzzle piece, to fill that empty space, it is only then we will truly be complete…and it is only then that we can enter heaven once we die.
I really spent a lot of time praying last night about how to give this lesson. I strayed a bit from the curriculum, which I was told that I can do. I talked to the young people about how external rules and trying as hard as we can to not talk badly will never bring change, but that what comes out of our mouths is a good determination of what is going on inside of us. I talked about the empty space inside of each of us that we have from birth that only Jesus can fill…like the missing puzzle piece. I talked about how our mouths can be used to ask Jesus to forgive us, and that Jesus used His mouth on the cross to say, “It is finished.” I talked about how our lives will only change from the inside out, including what comes out of our mouths…only through a personal, hand-holding relationship with Christ. Not only this, but that when we ask Jesus, the missing puzzle piece, to fill that empty space, it is only then we will truly be complete…and it is only then that we can enter heaven once we die.
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It was a very evangelistic message, one I know that many of the children contemplated. We even had a time of prayer at the end where the children were allowed to make that decision, if they felt inclined to do so, or if they felt that God was tugging at their hearts. I asked that they would come to us on staff at some point during the week if they did pray, in their own way, with their own mouths, to ask Jesus to fill that empty space. I believe that seeds were truly planted and some children there today may have given their lives to Christ. It is a very sensitive and personal thing here in Poland. I pray that many of the children did make that decision.
It was a very evangelistic message, one I know that many of the children contemplated. We even had a time of prayer at the end where the children were allowed to make that decision, if they felt inclined to do so, or if they felt that God was tugging at their hearts. I asked that they would come to us on staff at some point during the week if they did pray, in their own way, with their own mouths, to ask Jesus to fill that empty space. I believe that seeds were truly planted and some children there today may have given their lives to Christ. It is a very sensitive and personal thing here in Poland. I pray that many of the children did make that decision.
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Took a group of the children to the ice skating rink where the youth group had gone the other night…I can tell that the children were having a blast. I have seen and talked to some of the children who were at Summer Kid’s Club 2007 when our team from Whipple Creek had come to assist. I have also made some new friends. It seems as though the most wild kids are the ones drawn to me. Not sure why exactly. Just glad that there is a connection. Thank you, Lord, for using me today.
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Took a group of the children to the ice skating rink where the youth group had gone the other night…I can tell that the children were having a blast. I have seen and talked to some of the children who were at Summer Kid’s Club 2007 when our team from Whipple Creek had come to assist. I have also made some new friends. It seems as though the most wild kids are the ones drawn to me. Not sure why exactly. Just glad that there is a connection. Thank you, Lord, for using me today.
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Christian Young
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