This month our work has included a lot
of children’s ministry. 
From teaching Sunday School to teaching
English to just playing with them we’ve spent a lot of time with
kids. As soon as we arrived back from our second village we had a
meeting with Karen, the Teams Coordinator at New Life Fellowship, the
church that we were working under this month, for feedback and
discussion.
When I was asked what my highlights of
the month were I answered that it was the kids. In both villages we
had extensive contact with children, both formal and informal, and I
said that it was very apparent how hungry the kids are to be loved
and to know more about God and His Word. 
Karen then told us about the
4-14 Window. It is a relatively new term, but it represents the fact
that about 70 percent of the world’s children ages 4-14 live inside
the 10-40 Window, the countries that have the largest unreached
people groups in the world. These children are the future leaders of
their countries and our world and they need to hear about Jesus!
She explained that as part of New
Life’s ministry in Phnom Penh they have workers going to the slums
and the dump every week to hold Sunday Schools and VBS type
ministries and many of the kids want to come to the church on Sundays
but there’s not enough room. New Life uses two
building’s roof spaces for the children’s Sunday School on Sundays
and there is no extra space for more kids. The best they can do for
those kids right now is to keep sending workers to them, but even
then there aren’t enough people to reach all the kids. I nearly
started crying as I realized the ramifications of what she was
saying: “These kids need to hear about Jesus, but there’s no space
in the church and there aren’t enough people who care to go tell them
about Him and practically live out His love”.
I am so glad for the part that our
World Race teams have played in the lives of kids around the world
but sometimes the job seems so big: there are so many more kids in
the world who haven’t heard about Jesus yet. Romans 10:14-15a says,
“How are they to call on Him in whom they have not believed? And
how are they to believe in Him of whom they have never heard? And how
are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to
preach unless they are sent?”
My challenge is this: Don’t overlook
the importance the children of today have in the world of tomorrow.
If you have any children in your life at all, don’t waste the
opportunity to change their lives for eternity by sharing Christ’s
love with them today. Is there enough room
in your heart to love a child with the love of Christ?
