Church Leaders in Haiti are hungry – hungry for training and tools to do their jobs. Especially those involved in children’s ministry. These folks are all volunteers. They are Christian leaders with a heart for ministering to the children of their church. But often they don’t have specific training in that area. They do their best and God uses their ministry in kids’ lives, but they are hungry for training that would better equip them.
Recently Calvary Bible Fellowship of Sinking Spring, PA, addressed that need when they came to visit their C3 partner church in Vieux Bourg. They held a two day children’s ministry training seminar at the Zanglais Ministry Center for 25 children’s ministry workers from their C3 church as well as all three of the satellite churches in that district. On the third day they held a children’s event at a local church where they put into practice the things they’d learned and then met at Zanglais again for a debriefing time.
They covered quite a bit of ground. The sessions included drama, games, classroom management, flannelgraph, puppets (they made their own sock puppets), music, and lesson planning. They had a great time of worship and were encouraged through the devotionals and message time.
RMI missionary, Lee Nunemaker, who was one of the translators shared, “Not only did they receive training, but they received all the tools and supplies to do what they were taught. Then they had the opportunity to put it into practice. They did a fantastic job.”
The seminar ended with the presentation of certificates – a visible sign that these workers had completed training and were better equipped and encouraged to literally “Go forth into the harvest”.
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