by Margie Nunez
The last two weeks of Kids Wednesday Nights @ FPC, our Kinder to 4th graders learned that they are on mission for God. On our last night they learned that He wants each of us to share the Good News with those who have yet to know Jesus.
During the large group time, we did an activity with the children called Ticket to Heaven. It began with good news and bad news for them. I invited two children to the front, gave each of them a ticket to heaven, told them it was purchased for them by Jesus, and they were going to heaven (Good News!). Everyone else in the room was lost—they didn’t know Jesus as Savior (bad news). The Good News got even better, though. Their ticket could be shared, but time was limited. They could rip their ticket in half and share it with one other person. That other person could rip their half in half and share with another person, and continue until time ran out. They didn’t have to share their ticket if they didn’t want to.
The Good News is that when the time was up, everyone in the room was saved. Even each of the small group leaders had been given a ticket by a student. It was obvious that the children didn’t want anyone of us to be lost—Praise God!
The two students then heard that because of them, everyone in the room was now in heaven. They may only have reached one person, but that one reached out to another, and then another, until all of us were saved. Someday, we will have no idea how many will be in heaven because we shared the Good News with others.
At the end of the night, we gathered in the Fellowship Hall to encourage the students to look for times God gives them to share Jesus with someone who has yet to call Him Lord and Savior. As we prayed over the children asking the Holy Spirit to empower them with love and courage to be on mission with the Good News, the students surprised and touched us as they prayed over us leaders as well. It was a holy moment never to be forgotten.
As you see and interact with our elementary students at FPC, please encourage them to keep engaging together in Christ’s work of making disciples for the redeeming transformation of our city and world.