Jesus loves the little children

Hi all,

Just thought I would like to share about the past weekend:

YSP (youth study programme) fell in btwn Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Thus, the volunteers at YSP decided to come up with something to share the meaning of Good Friday to the kids.
we managed to come up with something:

A series of scenes that journeyed through the crucification and resurrection and we got the children to role play the different characters that came up for eg: the soldiers, the robbers that were crucified with Jesus, Mary Magdalene).
This was to be followed by an altar call for the children to receive Christ (actually we were not sure if this were materialise or how to do it. We were just going to play by ear and see how the children would response.)


At YSP, we were so excited about the whole thing, we decided to just have the sharing and role playing first before tuition time. After the role play, the children started to ask many questions such as:
How did Jesus die?
Why did he have to hang on the cross?
If Jesus is alive now, where is He?
If Jesus died a painful death on the cross, why is it that christians like to wear the cross as necklace?

As the Holy spirit led, altar call was given to children who want to receive God's love into their lives. And Praise God, 7 out of 9 children accept God's love into their lives. out of the 7, 2 are already attending FCBC, 1 is a christian who is not attending any. 4 are from non-christian background.

And so........ the volunteers have decided to split up the kids so that we can each concentrate on 1 or 2 to share more about this wonderful God to them. Praise God!