This Boy

I have story to tell you about this boy.  Something special is happening in this boy's life.  He was involved in our children's sports program, Upward this past year.  In Upward he received a Bible.

This boy came to Vacation Bible School.  I taught the Bible study one night for he and his fellow fourth graders.  He made an impression on me.  He was very attentive, bright eyed and interested in what we talked about.  He even made a comment about a particular Bible verse which, though I really can't repeat here, showed me he was getting the point of the verse.  This boy doesn't know how to do "church talk."

This same boy came to Summer Music Camp and during the Bible study time there, he made a realization.  The stories we were talking about at SMC were, as he termed it, "in that book I got from Upward."  He asked his teacher to write down the scripture reference where each day's story was in "his book."  Each night he would go home and read it for himself.

On the last day of SMC, he did not get written down where that day's story came from so he found his Bible teacher before the performance to make sure he would be able to read it that night.  This boy is very interested in the Bible though he does not yet know all our terms.

Sunday, this boy and several of his family members came to church for the first time to a worship service.

We don't always get to see how God is working in a boy or in a girl or in their family, but He is making it clear in the life of this boy.  Slowly, step by step, God is leading this boy to understand His love.  Slowly, step by step, God is using a whole church's efforts to impact this boy.  Would you keep this boy in your prayers?  Will you keep on being the kind of church that God can use to reach this boy and others like him?

for the journey...

Tim