兒童主日學 Children Sunday School
Lemon Choi 蔡林文詩姊妹
Praise the Lord for His abundance grace and the in-time provision on the needs of Children Sunday School. Through these, we deeply experience how God, as a potter, is moulding us so that we can be drawn closer to Him and be more like Him.
The Core Team, which includes Rev. Hiram Lau, Lemon Choi, Emily Dou, Miriam Kwong, Holly Hui and Deanna Or, continue to administer the day-to-day operation of Children Sunday School. There are over 70 brothers and sisters serving in the teaching fleet with about 20% of the total are the youths of our church.
As the teaching fleet is comprised of brothers and sisters from different congregations and generations of church, there are regular formal and informal meet up of the teaching members within each stage to build up the bonding as well as discussing any matter of concerns. The prayer time before class on each Sunday that was started at the beginning of year 2024 provides another platform for the teaching members to support each other, the children and parents through prayers. In addition, a Teaching Fleet Fun Day was organised in Apr 2024 for teaching members to get along in a casual atmosphere.
To root the Word of God in the heart of our children, there were different special programs to share the Gospel with them on top of the usual teaching. We had a puppet show from QuizWorx for our Christmas celebration in Nov 2023 and a musical from the Youths of our church for the Easter celebration in Mar 2024. Also, an online scheme called “Bible Reading Challenge” was initiated in May 2024 for the children of senior classes to read the bible together every night on weeknight during school term. The aim of the scheme is to build up the bible reading habit and love the Word of God from young age. It is encouraging to see that children who participate enjoy the time of reading Bible together.
Apart from the foundation of biblical truth, children are taught the heart of worship through the resumption of Senior Singspiration in Sept 2023 and Junior Singspiration in Jul 2024, and they are able to taste the sweetness of worship God together.
Besides, the message of serving God, caring and serving the people around us was delivered on different occasions. During the Mission Week Special Program in Oct 2023, Yakim and Grace’s family shared with us about children with disability in East Africa. Children were taught how they can support the missionaries to share the good news of Jesus with the unreached people. In our annual Children Sunday Service in Aug 2024, a kids talk on “Be the uplifting salt” was delivered by Rev. Hiram Lau. Some of the children were being invited to be the serving team in the Service and the children were really devoted in their serving roles. We are truly thankful for their serving hearts.
“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.“ Proverbs 22:6
Bringing the children to God so that they can build a lifelong relationship with our Heavenly Father is one of the most important visions and missions of Children Sunday School. We are blessed with a supportive community, which includes the teaching team, parents and all other brothers and sisters at church. Through the hard work of the community, pray that the seed of gospel will slowly grow in the hearts of our children in His time.
May we also invite you to keep the following in your prayers:
- The wisdom from Above to collaborate with other parties of church on the most suitable arrangement for another potential Children Sunday School / Kids’ Church
- The transformation of current Children Sunday School to Kids’ Church which will support our children for a smoother transition at the youth stage
- The teaching team is trialling on teaching materials from 2 different organisations. Pray that we are able to acquire a gospel centred teaching materials which is suitable to the children of our church and enable our teaching members to deliver the gospel message effectively
Our God is faithful, and we trust that He will continue to guide us through.