Gospel and Fun! Children´s Event at our church



Our church, Horizonte Tlaxcala, held our “Operation Christmas Child” event this month, and 70 children from our community arrived to hear the Gospel of salvation in Jesus Christ!

 

 

The whole congregation worked to make the event possible.  Families set up game stations around the auditorium to receive the children with fun as they arrived (Bingo station, sack races, bowling, beanbag toss, face painting…). 

 

 

Then, both adults and youth participated in the program: group games, children´s worship with dancing, and an evangelistic clown sketch. 

 

 

By the grace of God, the children were attentive to every word of the Gospel message- of Jesus´ love, sacrifice, and resurrection as punishment for our sins- and almost every child prayed to ask God´s forgiveness and Jesus´ salvation. 

 

The Samaritan´s Purse shoebox gifts were the perfect complement to the message of the free gift of salvation in Jesus- each child´s face shone with delight!

 

We are already witnessing fruit of the Lord´s work at this event!:

-5 year-old Kelly (from a non-Christian home) asked her father to read her the Gospel booklet she had received, because she wants him to know Jesus too! Then, her mother found her sitting in her room with her eyes closed; Kelly explained that she was praying to Jesus like they had taught her at the event.

 

-Marco Antonio (10) and Diego (8) are suffering a difficult family situation: their mother just left their father, taking their 3 sisters with her, and leaving their father to work and care for the boys alone. However, their whole demeanor brightened at the event, and their shyness faded away. Marco told Paco that he had never heard of Jesus before. Now we have the opportunity to continue to visit and minister to this family in need.

 

-Aleidys (9) and Carlita (14) arrived with their mother, Carla, who had never been to the church before. As I chatted with her about her family, her eyes filled with tears, and a large, purple bruise was visible covering her right cheek.  She obviously has serious family problems. But, she and the girls must have been attracted to the love and truth of Jesus at the event because they returned for Sunday worship service, along with her husband! May it be the start of the Lord´s work in their lives!