Let the Children Come

This is just a picture I wanted to share from our world. Yesterday (Sunday) morning during church, children began coming forward to the altar to pray -- unbidden. They simply came. A mother came up to pray. Then her school age daughter came forward and put her arms around her mother and prayed with her.

Then the other children came -- sometimes one, sometimes two. And they all knelt silently and lifted their hearts to their God, their Father, their Abba. I was so moved at the poignancy of the moment that I had to take a picture to share with you.

We've been pouring ourselves into ministry to children and their families here, and it was as if God wanted to give us a little glimpse of how He can use the paltry offerings of our time, energy, and strength.

Jesus loves me, this I know:
For the Bible tells me so.
Little ones to Him belong,
They are weak, but He is strong.
Yes, Jesus loves me!
Yes, Jesus loves me!
Yes, Jesus loves me:
The Bible tells me so.