childrensministry.com: Mixed Messages

8/28/2008 10:32:09 PM
iram_loves_jesus said: Greetings of Peace in the Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ, It is really privileged for me to write to your ministry and I pray may Lord bless you abundantly. I found that you have awesome and precious work of Lord Jesus Christ, May God bless your Church staff and all precious work. I have studied your web site, and I found it the most wonderful site to get right to the True Word of God. I found that all your material is full of knowledge concerning development of religious faith. I am Iram, 18 years old from Multan , Pakistan . Living in Pakistan we Christians have to face many obstacles to get the access to the Word of God. Most of the people in Pakistan are not capable to understand the English language and they are hungry of the God’s words. So I will be very thankful to you if you can to translate your material into my native languages. For this I am able to translate the good stuff of you into my native language Punjabi, Sariki and national language Urdu. There are two purposes to request you the first one is to know the Word of God more deeply and second one is to be supportive my family. My suggestion for you is to create your material in my language of Urdu, Sariki and Punjabi also. It will bring lots of blessings of the Word of God for the Pakistani and Indian Urdu, Punjabi and Sariki speaking people. For that purpose I as a translator will bring your material into Urdu, Punjabi and Sariki language as well. Although it will take your low expenses, as well as fund for the Word of God, to reach out to the deserving people. As a translator I will take the expenses that will be spending just for the Word. May God Shower his blessings upon you and your ministry’s work. Looking forward for your kind response, Yours Sister in Christ, Iram Multan, Pakistan.

7/5/2008 1:40:53 PM
nvroman said: As a children's ministry co-leader with my husband, II found this article very informative and helpful. Living in this culture can be so incredibly hard, and we're trying to teach our church kids to look at things through God's eyes. I would love to read this book, since our church is fairly small. I was so excited to see that the author of this article is a prof at Kentucky Christian, since my son will be attending in September!

7/3/2008 8:49:11 AM
karenquelch said: You are right on the money! If our children cannot relate the Bible to their EVERYDAY situations they will become bored disinterested and quit coming to church. I am presently taking Pirates of the Carribean movie theme and relating it to Paul's Journeys. The Black Flag is to represent the world of Sin the Skull is to remind the kids of the name of the place where Jesus was Cruicified and the Bones represent the body of Jesus coming into this world to Die for our Sins and then I explain Salvation with the A-B-C method. I allow the kids to make the Black flags but on the Back they paste the scriptural references and story of what the symbols mean bibically. I get laughed at by the senior citzens and the parents. but after 6 months in my classroom the kids can say all books of the Bible by memory to a Jazz beat. Over a Year we covered each Book of the Old Testament with a new Adventure scheme. my class grew from 5 to over 21 kids in 1 yr and has remained this is for a church where total attendance averages 40 on best sundays. I am often kidded about my Methods but if I am reaching the kids and they are showing the fruits then I will FORGE on with my Creative approaches and I am pleased to say this Sunday passed I had one 4 yr to come to my class and said " I SPOKE IN TONGUES-at home this week and during prayer time she showed the fruits" Praise and Honor to God for using me as His Instrument. May God Bless your Ministry and Just Keep up the Great Works. Thanks for someone who is thinking the way the Holy Spirit has lead me. Your Sister in Christ Karan Quelch

7/3/2008 8:03:09 AM
morningkelly_is_believing said: After reading this article I feel more compelled to learn more about youth culture, and even learning some of the new technologies even though it may be a bit challenging at first. Thanks for the tips that will help reach our youth!

7/3/2008 6:16:13 AM
dturismith said: This is absolutely the best way of dealing with all that our children are exposed to in the media. I appreciated your perspective and honesty. It is a realistic appraoch to bridging this very painful gap that we parents, and directors of youth minsitry face !! God Bless you.

3/24/2008 10:11:08 AM
clindsey40 said: this article seems to talk mainly to those ministering to children with Christian parents. The children in my ministry are at least 3rd generation non-churched. We have them for about 2 hours a week to try to compete and undo what they get from their parents, family and friends the rest of the week. This has proven to be a very daunting task for our whole staff. we feel sometime that the seeds of truth are on ground of rock. This is a wonderful article and we will use this to further our ministry and we are ordering Rick Chromey's book today.

3/21/2008 8:38:03 PM
deut8183j32 said: This article was definitely relevant. My children are 19, 13, and 11. They are boy, girl and boy respectively. I've worked in Youth Ministry for quite some time but there is always room for improvement. This article pointed out some really good resources to stay "relevant" with the Youth.

3/20/2008 3:51:35 AM
opyal said: This is a wonderful article, I am already sharing it with other children workers around me.

3/19/2008 10:33:21 PM
hilltop5 said: I have found the artical "Mixed Messages" relevent to a lot of issues when guiding our kids to adulthood. I would like to get permision to reprint the arical to help other understand this issue of kids. How can I get this.? God bless LIz