Hooray for primary school pupil free days! On Monday 29 July, while the school teach-ers were doing staff development, we were holding a pupil free day between 9am and 3pm. These days give us a chance to provide a service to our community in caring for the kids. We had 23 kids and 7 leaders. We had loud and active games.

We had a live band, and even the boys were asking to sing more songs. We did puzzles and craft and ate lots of yummy food. We used drama to teach some of Jesus’ parables. When the parents picked up their kids, some didn’t want to leave and all were telling their parents what a good time they had. One little girl told her mum that the best part was the teaching time.

Wow! The highlight for me was the prayer time when a little girl put up her hand and asked if she could pray because she wanted to be God’s friend. Before I got the chance to put my jaw back in place, she began to pray and there was absolute silence from every-one. She gave thanks that Jesus had died for her and asked to be God’s friend and that Jesus would help her change. Before we knew it, we had a number of other kids praying that God would help them change, that they would put God first and giving thanks for Jesus.

It was the most amazing time I’ve had in 10 years of children’s ministry. Most of the kids were from non-church fami-lies, but attend scripture. Praise God for the great job our scripture teachers are doing, and pray that God will continue to work in these young lives.