Well-Equipped Volunteer: Train & Grow Your Children's Ministry Volunteers
Is It Worth It?
Last week I was the speaker at a Bible camp for kids ages 9-11. Next week I am speaking at the VBS at our church (where I am also the director). It's been a pretty busy summer getting ready!! It can be all too easy to get caught up in the details when involved in events like this...I found it happening to me.
Tuesday at camp I shared the gospel with the kids and I shared my testimony. I gave the cabin leaders some material to share with their cabins (the Romans road and some questions to ask the kids about what they understand and believe about Jesus). Wednesday morning a cabin leader told me that a girl in her cabin gave her life to Jesus after chapel!
That moment I knew that all of it is worth it. One child saved makes all of it worth it.
I came home from camp and immediately jumped into all the last-minute details of VBS for our church. When I feel like it's getting too much, I remember that girl and pray that God would continue His work in the lives of the children who come to our VBS.
Now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus. 2 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
Then Jesus told them this parable: “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’ I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent. Luke 15:1-7
