The Pentecostal Church of Chile, a Global Ministries partner church for many years, has had great success with its just-concluded ten year plan for the development of its Christian Education Ministry for Children and Adolescents. One testimony of the efficacy of this ministry was a story shared by three of the original committee members for the ministry. In 2005 they visited a small church in Melipilla, near the capital city of Santiago. The church had 25 participants and very few children. The committee members encouraged the church to hold a vacation Bible school that summer, given that the children of the community had little to do over the summer school vacations. The church brought together volunteers that included youth and adults from the church. They received some training on working with children and began their task. The theme was “Treasure Island” and they began to ask parents if they would allow their children to come to the VBS. They registered over 60 children who participated for the five days. Today the church in Melipilla not only has a Sunday school for children, it also has classes for youth and adults and has grown in membership and ministry.<\/p>\n
With successes such as this, the Christian Education Ministry for Children and Adolescents proposes the following project for the next three years:<\/p>\n
Many of these items will happen concurrently with others, while others will take place in a systematic manner. Expenses for the project include production of materials, workshop costs, travel costs to local congregations, and planning and training meetings. IPC congregations will carry 20 percent of the total cost while IPC requests the remaining 80 percent from Global Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","region":[20082,20015],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n