The little things that make an impact

Name tags. Each of us has seen them, worn them, and probably not thought twice about them. Each child that attends Good News Club is given a name tag that reads "Jesus Loves ________" These name tags identify the children and reinforce the truth of God's never-ending love for the child. At the end of a GNC we give the children their name tags to keep, with the hope that they can remember GNC and God's love. However, I have never thought about just how God could use a little thing like a nametag, that is untill recently at Troy Crossroads GNC. At the end of last year, I gave the kids their nametags to keep, as is our normal practice. Several of last year's attenders returned this year to learn more about God. As I was greeting Cathy, she said "I was going to bring my nametag from home, but I forgot." I was so surprised and greatful. God had taken a little thing like a nametag to serve as a constant reminder to Cathy of God's love and the truths she learned in GNC through out an entire year. This is proof that God uses the little things in mighty ways.

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"Jesus homework?"

"Is this like Jesus homework?" asked young Damieon at Chaney Monge Good News Club last Thursday. This question came as we were introducing Wonder Devotional Books for the first time in this club. The Wonder Devotional Books are designed to help kids develop the habit of reading their Bibles daily. We explaining how the boys and girls may want to get up earlier each day to read their Bibles or do it after they come home from school. Then Damieon asked "Is this like Jesus homework?" My teaching partners and I were amazed by this. "Well yes it is like Jesus homework Damieon." Later on Damieon said that as soon as he got home he was going to do his "Jesus homework." May each of us approach reading God's Word with such immedianecy and excitment.

Good News Club as punishment????

Good News Club as a punishment? How can this be? The lead teacher of a GNC explains.

"There was a boy in our school who did not turn in his homework. The child's teacher decided that he needed to be punished for his behavior. So he sent the boy to Good News Club! This was a work of God. This child attended church off and on, but had never made a decision to ask Jesus to be his Savior from his sin. So, the day his teacher sent him to Good News Club, the child prayed to receive Jesus as Savior! He went on to attend nearly every meeting of Good News Club."

I have never heard a testimony like this one before. I am amazed at how God works. Praise God!

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"Father Abraham"

Yesterday I visited a GNC at Saratoga Elementary School in Morris. This is a club that has been going for years and meets all school year. This week they started talking about Abraham from the CEF Press lesson series Patriarchs. To help the kids understand the promise God made Abraham, the GNC team has been teaching them "Father Abraham." Lead teacher Carol Adair uses this song to discribe how God's promise to Abraham has been fulfilled in believers like you and me. This version of "Father Abraham" is unlike what you sang as a child. View and enjoy as I sure did yesterday.

"I''m ready. I want to be God's child."

Jasmine. We first met here three years ago in Good News Club at her school. She has come off and on since then to GNC when she can. She has always been on the quite side, but was always listening and ready to learn more about God. At the end of each lesson we always give an invitation to receive Jesus as Savior. Kids who respond to this invitation go back for counseling; those boys and girls that are serious and ready to become God's child are counseled accordingly. As long as I have known Jasmine, she has never responded to an invitation.

This week, Jasmine came back for counseling after the Bible lesson! She told my teaching partner, "I have always seen people come back to talk to you about God, but I never have. Now I am here." Jasmine told my teaching partner everything about who God is and what He has done for her on the cross. Jasmine said "I'm ready. I want to be God's child." Praise God that Jasmine is now apart of God's family. I marvel at God. This is Jasmine's last year at her elementary school and GNC is almost over for the year. I am amazed at God.