Time for another quick update!

It’s been rainy these past couple of days in Wetaskiwin, so there have been fewer kids at showing up at the last few clubs. While it would have been great to have more kids, the Clubs have been a lot of fun to teach… having kids super excited to sing songs, and even cheering when we get to telling the story.

What I really wanted to share about was Club 3. I had come away from the club yesterday being pretty discouraged, because almost all of the kids were doing their very best to disrupt the club, and it was worst when I was trying to do the really important stuff, like getting to the gospel message of the story, or explaining the Bible verse. Many of these kids come from non-Christian homes, who don’t often get to hear about the Bible and Jesus.  So my billets and I prayed a lot about this club.

Today, when I went to the club, there were just 4 kids, and 1 of them ended up leaving. However, we ended up having a good club with just those kids. And after hearing the story about Saul and how God spoke to him, one of the kids asked why God doesn’t speak to us today. So we got to have a really great conversation about how God does speak to us through the Bible, through those little voices we hear telling us to do the right thing, and so on. So thank you for your prayers: kids asking genuine questions about God is a huge praise item.

Additionally, I’m going to be driving most of tomorrow to do get to my next club location and do advertising. I would appreciate prayer for both of those, for safety on the road and for boldness and joy as I go door to door in Peace River and tell them about the clubs.

Thank you for your prayers!

Quin

Hey everyone! Here’s an update on how my Clubs here in Wetaskiwin are going.

Club 1
There’s been about 5 kids coming consistently to this club, and then the other 7 or so have just come once so far. Yesterday one 3-year-old raised his hand when I gave the invitation to accept Christ, but when I talked to him at the end of the club, he decided he didn’t want to pray to ask Jesus into his heart.  I was tempted to feel discouraged, but his mother was there and explained that while her kids had never prayed a prayer to accept Jesus, she wanted them to really understand what they were doing, which I agreed was important.  Then, at the end of today’s club, this boy and his sister told me that they had asked Jesus into their hearts with their mom that morning before Clubs!!

Club 2
Club 2 has been growing steadily, and we are now up to 11 kids, which is encouraging! The majority of the kids come from Christian homes. So we’ll see what God has planned, but if this club’s purpose to encourage them to keep growing, that would be completely worth it.

Club 3
I was at this same location in Wetaskiwin last year too, so all of the kids who came on the first day remembered me, which was fun! (And a little awkward when I didn’t remember their names, but they didn’t seem too offended).  Club 3 can be a challenge at times, because half of the 15 kids we have do their best to disrupt the class, and settling everyone down when it’s just me is tricky.

To give you an idea of the kind of hijinks this club is full of… I was teaching today’s memory verse: Romans 6:23. As I was trying to explain what “wages” meant, (as in, the waves of sin) one of the kids shouts: “Wedgies!” This, of course, led to all the kids laughing and repeating this hilarious word for the next minute.

While I can make it sound like this club is only trouble, it actually has been fun too: they are all excited for the stories and settle down when we get to that part. And I don’t want to minimize God’s ability to impact a kid who seems like he isn’t at all interested in listening. Still, I would appreciate prayer for this club, that God would give me patience with the kids, and that He would use what does get through to these kids to draw them closer to him.

OK, that’s all for today!

-Quin