Children's Outreach
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Our children’s outreach project is
co-ordinated by English missionary
Sarah Urwin,
supported
by a team of Romanian young people, and regularly assisted by visiting
mission teams.
Smiles Holiday Bible Clubs started in the
Summer of 2003, and since then we have evangelised to hundreds of
children all over the county.
Our Holiday Bible Club’s
aim to teach
the
gospel very simply to children in
villages where there is little access to the gospel. We use puppets,
drama, games, memory verses and competitions to share the message of
Christ. We are always faced with the challenge of keeping the
children’s attention, explaining why the bible is relevant to the
children’s lives, in challenging them, and never “watering down” the
message of the gospel.
Holiday Bible Clubs are an effective way
to present the gospel over a 3 day period in a village; but after the
program is finished it means leaving the children without
discipleship. We recognised the need for continued work with the
children, in order to teach them more, and develop their faith.
Therefore we have begun to work on a weekly program
“Smiles Club” in one of the villages.
This is a wonderful ministry because we are able to cultivate
relationships with the children, and study the bible more deeply than
is possible in a short Holiday Bible Club.
This Christmas, for the first time, we ran
a
Christmas Holiday Bible club, working in
two different villages. We tried to present the story of the first
Christmas in a new and exciting
way; using puppets and theatre to catch the children’s attention, and
focusing on the importance of why this baby Jesus was born, and what
our response needs to be.
We
never turn anyone away from our
children’s outreach
– and often minister to children and young
people between 18 months and 18 years old – a very challenging age
range to focus on! We often have visiting parents and grandparents,
and they seem to enjoy the program as much as the children.
After the
Christmas program, one old man told us, with tears in his eyes “I
really felt God in the room with us – thank you for coming; please
come back every day!”
Please pray for this
vital ministry of sharing the gospel with
these poor and largely un-evangelised villages.
If you would like to help us financially with the costs of our work,
please click the link below.
UK
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US
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