Voices From African Children’s Leaders: Part 2

The students we trained expressed concerns similar to those of children’s leaders I know. How can we engage families, especially if parents are unbelievers? How can we disciple children in a way that sticks? How do we minister to children outside the church? I also heard questions that were outside the realm of my experience. One of the most alarming was how can we stop the increasing practice of child sacrifice? Will you pray for the leaders who made the following statements?

Training Prayers or Commitments:

• Convicted-as a school teacher I need to be ready to speak to children at every opportunity
• Urgency to minister to the little ones. May I be used of God to catch them while they’re still young
• I need to reach kids who don’t know Christ
• Many areas with unreached kids. Learned strategies to reach and build relationships
• How creative we can be in ministry to non-Christian kids
• That I’d make disciples of the kids I reach-difficult because I move around-and equip others to follow up with them
• We need to reach the unreached, no matter what are your resources you can do something
• I see the eight kids who are my Muslim neighbors. How can I show the love of Jesus to them and touch their families?
• Urgency to nurture children for God. Importance of involving families is on my heart.
• Have kids abducted and sacrificed. Pray for these kids and that the spirit worship would end.