Praise� My wife and I just finished a Kids� Crusade last Thursday night at our church. We had the crusade Sunday morning and Monday � Thursday evening. It was a lot of fun and very rewarding. Our theme was �In Search Of ???�. Every night of the crusade, my oldest son was looking for something to put his faith in. On Sunday, he had found a food machine , Monday was the perfect pet, Tuesday was an instruction book for life, Wednesday was a time machine, and on Thursday was a treasure map. Of course, everything blew up on him. The food machine started throwing out raw spaghetti, the perfect pet was a balloon dog that popped when I petted him, the instruction book caught fire in my hands when I tried to open it, and the time machine put him in the middle of a war!. The map led him to the platform where there was a cross. It was then that he realized that all he had to do was put his faith in Jesus. We had 75 � 125 kids in attendance at every meeting. Several kids accepted Christ and many more spent time praying for friends, parents, relatives, and teachers. Now for my concerns� There were some behaviour problems during the crusade meetings. I had to stop a couple of times and correct a child from the platform or ask one of my helpers to take care of a situation. My helpers, some of which were parents, did not seem to know how to correct a child. Still others who had volunteered to help, felt that they needed to stand in the aisles or in the back of the church and correct children from there. At the end of every service, we gave the children an opportunity to come forward and pray. This was their opportunity to pray for whatever was on their mind. I had to almost beg the adults to come forward and pray with the children. The same adults that are the first ones to the altar to pray with other adults seemed scared to pray with a child. The ones that did come forward were obviously uncomfortable with the children. Conclusion� I have concluded that most adults do not know how to work with children. They do not know how to talk to, correct, or pray with them. THIS IS A PROBLEM. Solution� I have started today working on a workshop for those that want to work with children. I have not set a time schedule for it, or filled in all the topics. Help� Many of you have had a lot of experience working with children. I personally have been working in childrens� ministry for about 25 years. I would like your opinions. What topics do you think should be included in this workshop? Send me your ideals and feel free to expand on them if you like. A final note� The crusade materials we used were written by my family. My wife even made one of the puppets that we used. If you are interested in more detailed information on the crusade, please contact me and I will send you some of the skits we used. I hope to have pictures of the crusade on my home page by the end of the week. In His Service, Allen R. Cook - Cookie Royal Rangers Senior Commander Belton A/G -- Belton, Missouri e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web page: http:\\www.sound.net\~pabonim\index.htm ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com _______ To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe rangernet" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Eat the hay & spit out the sticks! - A#1's mule" RTKB&G4JC! http://rangernet.org Autoresponder: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
