Serving the Next Generation: A conversation with Lester
Lester, 1st Congre
Lester
Dan: Good morning.
Lester: My name is Lestorius.
I'm commander of the Roman guard.
This is Dan, my assistant.
Dan: Good morning, Sir Lestorius.
I understand that you're here today to share more about kids' ministry.
Can you tell us a bit about what this is and what it has to do being a Roman soldier, sir?
Lester: Indeed.
Kids ministry is very serious business.
Right now, we have a 100 prisoners down I mean, children downstairs in our care, and they are in desperate need of education.
And we need recruits, volunteers from among you who will take up the challenge to bring up these young savages, I mean, children into the Lord.
But special techniques are required and we will equip you with these.
There is a strange concept called fun, which increases our operational effectiveness and efficiency. And that is what the Roman army is about,
operational passage from my scroll.
From last week's sermon, Thessalonians five verse eight, but since we belong to the day, let us be sober. That is serious. Sober.
Okay.
Having put on the breastplate of faith and love and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
Now I could just tell you about the breastplate, and I could just tell you about the helmet and how they protect from the flaming darts of the enemy.
Cue flaming darts of the enemy.
One more flaming dart.
And how they protect your mind and your heart from the flaming darts of the enemy.
Hold on.
I have a flaming dart here.
It's got a lie of the enemy on it: “God only loves people who have cleaned themselves up, are good enough already.”
We need to protect ourselves from those lies with the truth of the gospel, which protects our minds and our hearts.
Ah, yes.
I could tell you about the breastplate or the helmet or I could give it to you.
I could let you wear it as many of the children this morning have enjoyed doing.
There you go, Dan.
There you go.
Thank you very much everybody.
Skit is over.
We do have a serious message.
There are I mean, kids ministry is one of the largest growing ministries.
It is one of the most important, ministries as we bring up these young, kids.
And it's amazing how fast they go from age six to age 16, and they're young adults.
And we want them to, you know, feel part of the church.
We want them to feel important and valued.
And we need the whole family of God to to do that.
And you might nervous about being involved in kids ministry.
Do you have to get them a costume?
Do you have to be an extrovert?
The answer is no.
And, I mean, there are roles for everybody.
If you want to be a helper, crowd control is very important.
If you want to be a teacher, if you can hold the attention of, you know, an 11 year old for fifteen minutes, you can hold the attention of anybody.
And so we will be out in the back, if anybody is interested to find out more about kids ministry to get involved.
It is fun, and it is very rewarding.
So thank you very much.
Dan: Thank you, Lester. Can we give Lester and all our kids volunteers a round of applause? They do such an important work in our church.