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My name is Sarah, and I am the Children’s pastor at Gaba Community Church in Uganda. I love children and I am always happy to see them grow into mature Christians. As the Chairperson of the EGM-Uganda Board, I look forward to seeing EGM expand throughout our country. At our church, we offer a school outreach program throughout the week. This provides a Christian environment where children can experience positive transformation. I trained a group of 25 teachers using the Model Children’s Worker program. Together, we reach out to four schools in the local area. Many children in these schools…

From its very beginnings, EGM-Belarus has consisted of representatives from two major Church Unions: Baptist and Pentecostal. For over 10 years, I have personally been involved in the Board’s work and have served as its Chairman during recent years. I also work as full-time professor at a theological seminary in Minsk. In our Board meetings, we share stories of thanksgiving of how God is transforming children into His image. We discuss our challenges. As we join together in prayer, we ask the Lord for guidance in our work and for help in our current needs. We see the great impact…

In the next ten years, how does EGM serve 38 countries where 75% of the children live? The answer — equip local Christian leaders! Around the world, there are Christians who are just like us: they love the Church and they love children. They want to help teachers teach children based on Moses’ experiential model in Deuteronomy 6:4-9. These leaders have been called by God to reach children in their country. EGM has been called by God to help them! How does EGM help? We ask them what they need and then help provide it. Their requests center around three…

Bezalel and Oholiab walked out of Moses’ tent, and nearly collapsed out of fear and exhaustion. Words could never express what had just taken place. And what they had been instructed to do. Earlier that day, they’d been summoned by their new leader. This man was to be respected – even feared. He glowed from the presence of YHWH. One couldn’t speak to Moses without his face being covered with a veil. That alone would cause them trepidation before entering his presence. But Moses had specifically welcomed them into his tent and told them the unbelievable: YHWH had chosen them…

Around the world today, many children are being taught the Bible like it is just another subject in school. Often, they memorize whole chapters of the Bible, but it is never clarified to the children what those verses have to do with everyday living. Rather, the Bible is taught to children like it is a collection of fables or fairy tales. I think it is a tragedy that children are being taught the Word of God in a way that is disconnected from their real life. But how can we connect the Bible to the real lives of children in…

Cami and I served with the Bunavestire Church in Bucharest for 16 years. We began with a new church plant of 30 people and started developing the children’s ministry very soon after. Eleven years ago, we started to implement EGM’s Biblical transformation model based on Deuteronomy 6. Our family was recently called to relocate to the states, and we had the opportunity to reflect on God’s work through Bunavestire. The church now has over 700 people in attendance, including about 150 children and over 30 children’s ministry leaders. Even more significant than the numerical growth over the years has been…

Mary and Rose recently participated in the Model Children’s Worker training workshops hosted by EGM-Egypt. One of the sessions they attended was about ministering to children with special needs. Not long after that, a woman from Mary and Rose’s church asked if they would consider coming to her home to visit her children who didn’t attend church. She had two boys: Fahim, a fifth-grader, and Khalid, a five-year-old boy who was born with one leg. Khalid did not want to attend Sunday School because he felt so “different” from other children. Mary and Rose’s hearts were touched, so they arranged…

I was recently teaching a VBS lesson in Cluj about how each and every one of us is so important to God. I shared that He sees real treasure in us – and that He paid an indescribably high price for us. An eight-year old boy, named Andrei, was listening intently and quietly. With a tear in his eye, he whispered, “I am a mistake.” He shared with me that because his parents were “older,” many people referred to them as his grandparents. They would say mean things to him, including that because they were so old, he was unplanned…