Building Strong Children

Mike Hosey, An Elder

It has been said that it is better to build strong children than to repair broken men (or women).  This is a statement of profound truth.   When one looks at all of the broken adults in the world, one must wonder if this truth has been realized by it.

Thankfully, Fellowship Church has realized this truth, and tries to put it into action every week on Sunday mornings. We do our best to build strong children through Sunday School classes, through our SonSeekers program, through our CrossTrainers program, and on Wednesday nights with our youth group.   We try our best to strengthen families and parents through solid preaching and teaching from the pulpit, so that those families and parents can apply the powerful word of God to their own lives. And through our staff of elders, we offer pastoral counseling to those families that need a little shepherding through some of life's more difficult pastures, so that the children of those families benefit from growing in a house that honors God and His order.

We take building strong children very seriously.  And all of the things we do to build them are good.  But doing Vacation Bible School is one of those children building activities that we do that is especially good because it has a great impact on the community outside of Fellowship's regular members. It often benefits children who don't get regular biblical instruction.  It models for them that church community is fun, vibrant, and worth while.  And sometimes it benefits children who have never heard of the goodness and love of God, or the wonderful relationships we can have because of Jesus!

But we also get to model for them that the church is a body with many parts (1 Corinthians 12:12-27).  Everyone working together using their unique skills on teaching, or doing skits, or crafts, or supervision, or cooking food, or cleaning up, and on so many other things, demonstrates that we are a team, a community, and a family that comes together to serve Christ by serving the people in our neighborhoods.  On behalf of all of the elders, we are proud of, and thankful for, everyone who has sacrificed their time and energy this week to be Jesus to so many children!  Thank you for helping to make them strong!