Local School successfully adopted by local church

Several months ago, Church of the Good Shepherd of Joliet indicated their desire to adopt Crystal Lawns to have a Good News Club. Several weeks of training passed. The team was ready and we went in April 15. An experienced CEF teacher went with me to mentor and transition this GNC to the team from the Church of the Good Shepherd. The last two weeks the team has done a fantastic job of teaching the GNC. Richard, Jake, Karen, Don, and Danielle are doing well teach this great group of kids more about God. This group really listens intently went the Bible is taught. After two great weeks, I have given this club over to Church of the Good Shepherd!! Our chapter's first successful GNC-Church adoption this year. I left that school yesterday rejoicing and praising God for supplying more workers to share the Word! This makes four local schools adopted by churches. The search continues on for more churches to adopt schools.

Easter Egg Hunt a Huge Success

What a day we had on Saturday April 11. Thank you one and all for the role you played in helping make this day a success. 52 kids came to our Easter Egg Hunt. The day was first divided into three 20 mintue stations where they play games, learn a memory verse and have a snack, and listen to an Easter Bible lesson. The most important part of this is the Bible lesson. When the first group was given a change to receive Christ, five kids responded. When asked why they came back, each one responded "I want Jesus to be my Savior" " I want to be God's child" "I want God in my life" In total 16 kids prayed to recieve Christ as Savior. I have posted a slideshow for you to see just what happened that day. Praise God!

"Mom!! I'm God's Child"

Alexis started coming to my SPARKS program at church after attending VBS last summer. As far as I can tell, she does not attend church anywhere execpt at my home church on Wednesday evenings. Alexis has enjoyed coming to SPARKS this year. Towards the beginning of the year, Alexis came for the fun and did the memory verses without truly understanding what she was mem0rizing. Readers of my blog know that I have switched my SPARKS Bible lessons to PreSchool Bible lessons. Boy have we seen a turn around in the comprehension and retention of what is being taught from the Bible. Yesterday after the Bible lesson, Alexis indicated that she wanted to become God's child. So, her SPARKS leader, my mom, was able to counsel Alexis about becoming God's child. And she prayed and is now God's child. After her she was finished, My mom brought Alexis to me to tell me what she had done. She told me and she knew she was God's child. Over the course of the night, we took her to tell two other people whose child she was now. Each time, Alexis became more fluent in expressing what had happened. Then at the end of the night, my mom brought Alexis to her mom and told her what had happened. Alexis looked at her mom and said "Mom! I'm God's child!" Praise God for this changed life!!!!