“My Sunday School Teacher Loves Me”

So my parents were in town visiting this past weekend.
That usually means that at some point they start telling stories about “stuff I did as I kid”… and lets just say that I’m not always the “hero” in the story. ? Most of the stories they tell are ones that they’ve told over and over again. But this weekend I heard a new one, and it made me really think.

When I was about 5 years old, we were going to a church (I don’t know how regularly).
But one summer my parents put us kids into a Vacation Bible School at a different church closer to our house.

After a few days of VBS, I came home & told my mom “My Sunday School Teacher loves me”. So my mom said “Well Scott, it’s so nice that she told you that, she sounds like a nice lady.”And apparently I told her, “Oh… she didn’t say that she loves me…I can just tell.”

As my mom tells it, that caught her off guard. And got her thinking. If this church has people that love my kid… and my kid can actually feel it… maybe that’s the kind of church we need to be around more often. So — after some conversation with my dad, they actually decided to attend this church regularly.

Even though 5 year olds are different from middle schoolers… I do think that middle schoolers can “just tell” if the people at church really care about them.
- By how people welcome them when they show up
- By how people talk to them … and listen to them
- By how people respond when they do something they weren’t supposed to

God, please help us make our ministry a place where junior highers can Just Tell they are loved!
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We had our VBS the first week of August and we averaged over 150 kids & 80 workers each evening. After going through the registrations we found 65 families that are not attending church and we are doing our best to get them and their children plugged in here at Faith.

I too pray that there are children that came that week that told their mom or dad, “I can just tell.”