“Let the Children Come to Me”
Imagine trying to teach a class with only one small textbook. There is no instructor’s manual, no teacher’s notes…and it’s a subject you don’t know a lot about.
How well could you teach your students? Could you answer their questions?
This is the situation faced by Sunday school teachers throughout Southeast Asia. Many of them are new Christians who grew up in Buddhist homes, so they have no past experience with Sunday school to draw upon. Aside from A Child’s Garden of Bible Stories, translated into their languages by Lutheran Heritage Foundation (LHF), they have no materials to teach children about Jesus.
Your Sunday school or day school students can help – for only $2 per child!
When your school or Sunday school adopts the LHF “Let the Children Come to Me” mission project, their offerings will go toward writing and translating a Lutheran Sunday school program for Southeast Asians.
The one-year curriculum, based on A Child’s Garden of Bible Stories, will be written and translated for three different age levels at a total cost of about $24,000. Conservatively speaking, at least 12,000 Sunday school students will benefit from the curriculum – a cost of only $2 per student.
When your church or school adopts this LHF mission project, teachers will receive a resource kit from LHF that helps their students learn more about Southeast Asian people, life and culture, including:
· A 5-minute DVD about the project
· Bulletin board photos
· Recipes for easy Asian snacks
· Some of the very same Bible crafts and activities that the Thai and Cambodian children will do in their Sunday school
For more information…
…or to order a “Let the Children Come to Me” resource kit, visit the LHF website at www.LHFmissions.org, or call the office at (800) 554-0723.
While you can send your gifts to the Minnesota North District to be forwarded to LHF, you are encouraged to send gifts directly to LHF. If your Sunday school or school is going to participate in this program, we would appreciate hearing from you that you are. Please contact Pastor Dave Strohschein (dave.strohschein@mnnlcms.org) or Cathy Wright (receptionist@mnnlcms.org) or the Minnesota North District office (218-829-1781) with that information.
(Information for this article was taken from theWordatwork, a publication of LHF.)