It was this gap which led us to launch a Child Discipleship ministry at the beginning of this year, and to hold a training in May for 23 Sunday School teachers and 4 denominational leaders from 12 different churches. As you can see from those dates we still have a lot of catching up to do in our updates, but it’s certainly not from a lack of exciting things happening! And the Child Discipleship ministry has certainly been one of those exciting things.
As for Stella, our training gave her the skills she needed to share Bible stories and teach scripture memorization. She said she also learned how to control the class and discipline the children in a loving way, and that she has a growing heart for children’s ministry. In fact, she has started travelling by foot to their neighbour church (about 6 kilometres away) in order to help train their Sunday School teachers what she has learned. As she said, “I have seen the importance of loving and working with children!”