Embracing Kingdom Hope for a Broken World
Involving Kids
For the past several months we have been working with the children’s director from Presbyterian Church of the Covenant to help bring the creation care message into their Vacation Bible School. After months of planning their VBS began this past Monday. During the course of the week they will be learning more about God’s creation, their role to play in caring for it, and God’s great plan to restore it.
It has been exciting so far to see the children engaging with aspects of creation care. How encouraging to see kids composting and able to explain why they should do it! More importantly, how incredible is it to hear kids speak of God’s love for them and the beauty of His creation!
On a personal level, I have loved watching my daughter help with gardening, composting, and conserving. It is such a great thing to see children caring for God’s creation. This is not just for some general environmental reason; rather they are beginning to understand the Christian call to care for God’s creation. Now that gets me excited!
How have you seen children caring for God’s creation?
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