Your vote is your personal influence, your power to turn good intentions and noble ideas into life-changing actions. Our church is voting on a kind of referendum right now. We’re deciding whether we’ll be a church that ministers effectively to the children of our church and community. We won’t decide this issue in a church conference. We won’t make our choice by raising our hands, saying “aye,” or marking a ballot. We will vote for or against the children we have the opportunity to serve by our personal involvement in our preschool and children’s ministries.
On Mother’s Day, Beth Tolar, our Children’s Ministry Director, spoke about the wonderful opportunity we have to teach the children of our church about Jesus. She shared the exciting opportunity we will soon have to include the children from First Myanmar Baptist Church in our Bible study program. Then, she asked the people of St. Andrews to prayerfully consider becoming involved in our ministries to preschoolers and children. One caring soul voted “yes” by volunteering to assist a children’s Bible study group. Everyone else, by their lack of response, voted “no.”
I know that some of you cast a “yes” vote long ago when you volunteered to love and lead our children in ETC, Bible study, VBS, and music and missions. Thank you! Others in our fellowship are no longer physically able to work with children. We understand. The rest of us are deciding whether we will be a church that whole-heartedly invests our time, effort, and love in the lives of boys and girls who need to know who Jesus is and what living for Him means. I hear many of our people say, “We need more young families in our church.” The question is not whether we need them, but whether we want them enough to make ministry to little ones a big priority. The question is before us. How will you vote? If you’re ready to vote “yes,” contact Beth Tolar (btolar@standrewsbaptist.org) and let her count you among those who will work to welcome more children into our church.
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