Saturday, 20 June 2009
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Cherishing the Sovereignty of GOD
This is one of the many reasons I am ever grateful to God that my church uses the curriculum of Children Desiring God. I receive email updates from Desiring God's Philippian Fellowship, and this was one of them:
A couple of weeks ago we received a moving testimony about a boy named Jonathan from a Sunday School teacher. Jonathan’s mother gave permission for us to use the testimony in this prayer letter.
Dear Children Desiring God,
For the past year we have been teaching My Purpose Will Stand - a Study for Children on the Providence of God to the 5th and 6th graders of our church. As a matter of fact, we taught the last lesson two days ago...The last four lessons of the year were an excellent wrap-up and we truly began to see fruit in the thinking of our children. On Sunday night, the father of one of our students, Jonathan, suffered a sudden and massive heart attack and died. It was completely unexpected. The next morning, Jonathan told his mom that he was so thankful he had been learning about God's loving providence all year because he knew that his dad's heart attack was not a surprise to God and that he could take comfort in knowing that God has good purposes in this. This, from a 5th grade boy, just hours after his father had passed into glory!
This is why we are passionate about children's ministry and why we stand in your debt for writing a curriculum that takes such pains to give children good, biblical categories in which to think.
Our passion at CDG is for the next generation to know and cherish the infinite value of God. Knowledge or cherishing by themselves is nothing, but knowing and cherishing God is our hope, our mission, and what we want to be true for the next generations.
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