A car breaking down on a 170km road trip to run a KidsHub training in a rural area is not usually a source of hope. But hope is just what Pearl & Alex were able to bring a young pastor fresh out of Bible College when they were forced to spend a night with his family in his rural village when their car broke down. “We had an amazing day of training 360 children and 30 leaders in KidsHubs at a Compassion project working with 1for50 trainers from Telangana (India). But with our car breaking down we thought there must be some reason why God brought us to this pastor’s place.” The young pastor had just returned to his home to run 12 churches in nearby villages and none of them had any children’s ministry. He was facing many challenges teaching the children so he was thrilled to learn about KidsHubs. “He was telling us that God must have sent us to show him these new things,” said Pearl. “I’m not surprised anymore. God does ordain our steps, we only have to be willing to obey and do.”

Children in an orphanage in Kuala Pilah, Malaysia took part in a 3 day KidsHub Video training with Ramesh. With no access to video cameras normally, Ramesh excitedly shared “the Director of the home at first was not sure, but when he saw the interest of the children he gave me permission to run a 3 day training. After seeing the children’s difference in handling video cameras he has promised to send 2 or 3 children into visual media. He was also shocked (in a good way) to see the new opportunities to communicate the gospel.” The KidsHubs media sessions enabled Ramesh to enter as a vocational trainer. Hope was in abundance for these children as Ramesh shared how excited they were “learning the Bible in fun and interactive ways.”

20 leaders over 20 days in October joined a Max7 children’s ministry school to learn skills and programs to help in their local context in Tanzania. Andrew, training organiser, has been running these ministry schools twice a year for several years. “We enjoyed sports and games, active and participatory learning, teaching methodology for pre and elementary school (teaching) and visited an orphanage as part of our compassionate project.” Andrew trains leaders in the freely available resources like Ubabalo – a sports coaching & discipling tool, Max7 including the BibleMax curriculum and of course KidsHubs.

Ramesh, KidsHubs & children’s ministry champion in India, has been busy. We receive almost weekly reports of KidsHubs trainings he is running with church pastors & children’s ministry leaders in his city, Chennai. He uses the KidsHubs Half Day Vision Casting Training Guide and passes on his extensive skills in puppetry & video. He has begun monthly half day KidsHubs & ministry training for 18 leaders at a church in Maduravoil, Chennai. He ran training for a mission’s organisation that supports 20 pastors across his State, Tamil Nadu. Ramesh said “(a) few pastors acknowledged the importance of children’s ministry and were also happy about the free (resource) websites Max7 and KidsHubs.” Ramesh has also been filming a video album of games for use in children’s ministry.

 

Imagine 1 leader trained for every 50 children – every child, every community covered with passionate & equipped children’s ministry leaders. KidsHubs will be part of a 1for50 training in Hyderabad, India Fri 13 – Sat 14 November. Know anyone in that city? Send them along!

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“KidsHubs came at the right time”. These were the words of Jummai a children’s ministry worker who was part of the Nigerian Kids Hubs training with several ministries in June this year. On returning back home God opened a door and she was able to train 120 children’s workers from the New Life for All. The 2 day training challenged the teachers on new ways to teach kids using life skills. They had presentations on carpentry, hair dressing, tailoring, farming and even peanuts.

Jummai was also able to start a KidsHub on farming tools and peanuts with 100 children from a secondary school in Kwanga community in Jos. What an amazing effort! Do you want to run KidsHubs Training? Check out the resources here.

Imagine a young entrepreneurs’ KidsHub where young people learn business skills and are discipled to become passionate & successful business people for Christ. These were just one set of KidsHub sessions that were birthed at a recent Writer’s Workshop in Limuru, Kenya. 28 children’s ministry workers from 7 African & 2 South Asian countries came together to create new resources for their context. These talented and inspiring practitioners had a great week learning and practicing creative thinking process and tools for writing, before starting to write some amazing lessons for children and teens. These will appear on KidsHubs.com and Max7.org when ready, so watch this space!