What a fantastic weekend! Last weekend was the 11th annual conference of the WMCNZ and included the 10thy anniversary celebrations. A fantastic time of fellowship as we celebrated the past and envisioned the future.
As always at Conference we also held EQUIP which is a time of teaching and training for all. As has been our practice in recent years one stream was Children's Ministry. Ian and Yvonne Fletcher spoke with us on "Child Evangelism" which provided the theological and biblical reasons why we must evangelise children. Then in session 2 they engaged us in "Life Changing Storytelling". Here we were taught how to bring stories to life and the art of using the gospel stories to challenge and change the lives of the children. They set out principles that enable teachers to work with the Holy Spirit to transform the hearts and lives of the children, to make disciples not religious clones.
That all sounds really dry but believe me it was anything but. From learning new songs to learning how to bring stories to life it was lively, engaging and life changing especially for the children we minister to.
What was really gratifying also was that there were about 25 people who attended one or more of the 3 sessions. That may not sound like many but it shows the increasing desire of people for CM training when you realise that just a few years ago we would be lucky to get 5 to attend any training.
Missed these sessions? That's a shame but I hope we can run them again soon - so watch out for that.
To end. here's a comment from Yvonne that I really like
The school has them [children] all week to prepare them for life
We have them for 1 or 2 hours a week to prepare them for eternity
Till next week
Pastor Pete
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