Children’s Programs, missing little ones

Sunday was our “I love Jesus Sunday”. The children presented a simple play complete with staging and choir. It looked like, as simple as it was, that it took a lot of coordination and a good deal of costumes. The scenes were in church, in a mall, in a car, and in a hospital emergency room. The focus was on understanding Christmas and because of a car accident a teen boy was required to give his blood to save the life of critically injured twin sister. It was quite powerful.


Six visitors got saved that morning. Four were parents of children in the play and two were there because of flyers we had handed out inviting people to come. It was a great morning.

All in all, Mama and I love this church. She has already made many friends, but we miss being involved. We are required by church standards to wait three months after joining before we can participate and we are ready to get to work. It is different from Somerset Bible Baptist Church where we were put to work right away.

In our nine years there we developed a ministry with the younger children that we are both missing very much. It was a ministry that carried on outside of the church into our everyday lives so we were constantly taking care of little ones. We both miss that more than words can express and Mama really wrestled with it on Sunday.

When the Associate Pastor asked me to come up and pray at the dismissal of the evening service and I prayed for the children and families effected by the service that morning, it was too much for Mama and she hurried out of the church in tears. It is nearly that time of month.

Being isolated from little ones certainly makes me miss my grandkids more.