Kids Club ... Day 9

We are in the home stretch, completing a great day with many victories.  Many children made professions of faith today, most for the first time.  Most of these are children we have been developing relationships with for quite awhile.  For many of our young leaders, this was a day of great joy, having invested countless hours loving specific children -- hoping for this day where they could be used of God to lead some precious child into an eternal relationship with their Savior.  Our own son Ian led two children to Christ today.  One of these fifth graders shared with me, that he already feels different, he knows his new life is real.

There was breakthrough in many other areas as well, almost all the sixth grade girls coming to a place of reconciliation with one another, after fighting a good deal of the week in cliques.  One talk brought them into a place of deep weeping, mostly for their own pain -- and then wanting to be reconciled to their friends.  One of their leaders, a teen who has literally spent most of her life in this ministry, was one of those sixth grade girls once.  She intervened in love with messages of God's love and forgiveness.  It cost her though, as I saw the exhaustion in her later tonight.  Traveling back to the pain of her younger life with these hurting girls and giving them what she still needs, was tiring.  But this is what Kids Club is ... a time when our lives merge into one.

Stories of abuse, abandonment, hopelessness came out today, again.  And yet, I heard more than before, that many of these stories resulted in children giving their lives to Christ as a result.  Pray for these new believers that they would grow up in the Lord with us.  Pray for our young leaders (all 55 of them) that this summer of ministry would result in great spiritual fruit that would last past these summer memories.  So many have stepped out into this frontline ministry and God is honoring their diligence.  One leader confessed that this summer has brought home the real and tangible power of prayer.  She believes this experience has changed her perception of "why pray".

God bless you and your faithful perseverance in prayer on our behalf.  Hundreds of lives have been blessed as a result, I wish you could see them yourselves.

Loving you,
Kit