There are moments when my heart is so full of God and His grace that I feel like I am going to pop with Jesus awesomeness. Tonight is one of those moments… and well I am just full… full of Him… and so very thankful for all He is.

When I felt the call to Children’s Ministry and told God yes, I would go…

I first went with one foot in… I suppose…

I kept my ties in the youth and held fast to my precept ministry. As a matter of fact, I just taught all three. College on Sunday mornings, Children during worship, and adult Precept on Sunday nights…

However God would continue to grow in my heart a desire for children’s ministry that I could not deny…

It’s funny.

Most see the children’s ministry as the starting point for a new believer to get their feet wet in and then progress  to teaching the “harder stuff” to the adults… but God did the opposite in me.

He trained me up in precept and in teaching college and adults so that I could come back and be a better teacher of Biblical truth to these children.

In the children’s ministry is where we lay the foundation of all Biblical truth… therefore it is very important that this is a foundation of Rock and not slippery silly sand. It may seem strange to some, but I study just as hard to teach the two year olds as I did the 22 year olds. I have even had people comment on how I must be enjoying the lighter study load… ummm nope. I dig just as deep… and I don’t teach less depth just because they are two or ten.

Tomorrow I will be taking close to 40 precious souls into the day that Abraham walked with Isaac up the Mount to offer him as a sacrifice unto God. Yes, Father Abraham had many sons… but he also was asked to sacrifice one of those. He was asked, Abraham how much do you trust Me?

Then their small group leaders will be taking them even deeper. Last week the kids left the large group class saying, “Mrs Nicole I got my shovel! We’re going to go dig a little deeper!” And they walked out the room making shovel motions and chanting “dig a little deeper, dig a little deeper”

LOVE IT!

Then in Children’s Church I will take almost 30 kids 4yrs old to 12 yrs old into the depths of Revelation as we look at the great harlot riding on a beast drinking a cup full of immorality and abominations…

This is serious study. I take it seriously. I want to send these kids up and out into the world fully equipped with sword bearing truth. These kids today are facing hard things. Lies are every where they look. They need truth. They need people who will speak truth over them and to them.

When I became Children’s Ministry Director, my heart was very pulled toward a bold recommended decision that I would make concerning this ministry. It would be something that would be different… but I felt very strongly about it… even though it was scary.

The decision would be a No Volunteer Policy for the new children’s ministry department.

There would be no announcements begging for help. No sign up sheets begging for teachers or helpers. I had seen this too many times… Too many times I had seen kids walk by an empty sign up sheet and heard them say… “no one wants us”

Nope, not under me. Because I wanted them. I wanted every last one of them. And I would trust God to provide me with teachers and leaders that wanted them too. If God could use Moses to lead over 2 million Israelites then surely He could use me to lead 1 children’s ministry.

So I took this leap of faith.

Sign up sheets would be for one time activities only.

Then I personally invited those that God had put on my heart to join me in this mission… I didn’t want anyone serving out of guilt or out of a martyrs complex… I wanted full hearted service. Service out of obedience to the call of God and the desire to plant seeds of truth and water them and cultivate them and love them.

And then a need would arise and time would be running out and my heart would catch in my throat as I thought I am going to have to stand and ask… and then God would remind me that He was in control

In one of these moments I was reading a book by Francis Chan and he asked something like “what are you doing in your life that if God doesn’t pull through for you, you’re in trouble” and so I said, Okay God, I got it… I will wait. Guess what, He never failed to bring someone to my mind… or to someone else’s mind who would come and share that name with me. And every time when that person was asked they would say that God had already began the process of moving them into this ministry

Every time He has provided the worker.

Yes the fields are white for harvest, and yes the workers are few, but when we beseech the Lord of the harvest… He provides.

He has been faithful to provide people who love these kids and see this ministry as a priority. I walk down the halls and have conversations with my workers and I hear their passion for the kids… as a whole and as individuals. I hear their desire to teach the kids the Truth of the Word of God. I see the excitement in their eyes when they share something that happened in class or they share an idea they had to help illustrate the lesson. I don’t know if they know that I am listening or catching these moments, but I am, and I thank God for them.

Every act of obedience is a step of faith.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel,

for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes,

to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed 

from faith to faith;

as it is written, “But the righteous man shall live by faith.”

Romans 1:16-18

Faith to faith, step of faith to step of faith, Jesus awesomeness just pops out all over us when we choose to just believe.