Beseech the Lord of the Harvest

When I first came down to the Dominican Republic I had a great plan for establishing a children’s ministry in two years and I pretty much managed to execute all my plans. Now though, I can see that I failed to “beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.” (Matthew 9:38). I chose people who I thought would be good children’s ministry leaders, I trained them, and I put all the tools I thought they needed in their hands. But little by little all the leaders I’d chosen left the area, and for the past few years a couple very busy people have done their best to run a Saturday kids church about twice a month.

I’ve longed to see El Camino Church offer more to the kids of this barrio and I’m happy to say that God has too, and he’s heard my prayers. Just about three months ago I heard that three of the ladies in the church were offering a Sunday school training seminar. When I asked one of the woman, Wanda, why she’d decided to get involved in children’s ministry she told me that God told her to. She’d been praying about what ministry she should get involved in, and He made it very clear to her that she should start from the beginning, that is, work with children like she did when she first became a Christian.

Since then roughly 30 teenage girls have been trained to work in Sunday school, they’ve been having weekly kids church services for 100 to 150 kids, and they’ve just started offering Sunday school classes for the kids that come with their parents to the Sunday church services. The past few Sunday services have been so peaceful as the little kids have been upstairs in classes just for them, instead of playing and running around in the back of the church building. Thank you God for raising up all these children’s ministry workers!

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