28 January 2016 | Athens, Greece [Victor Hulbert] It just takes one committed grandparent and a new church can be established. That committed lady recently became an Adventist and is part of a small church that meets roughly one hour outside of Athens. In her turn she has nine children. They are all married and have children of their own. The whole family now attend church, their children making up a large proportion of the twenty children in attendance.
Clair was astonished with how involved and attentive the children were – especially as she was having to teach via a translator. She added, “About 20 of those children came from a church about one hour from Athens. The Greek Mission office had ordered a bus for them because they are a new church plant and do not have a lot of money.” With so many children, Clair stated that it is “amazing how God leads one woman to the church and we now have a church made up of that family.”
The weekend was more than a Sabbath School. On Sabbath afternoon she held a workshop on Mission – directed both towards Adventist families and those children outside the church. ‘Mission’, in Clair’s case always means something practical because, as she states in her forthright manner, “theory doesn’t help anyone.”
The training continued with a series of workshops on the Sunday. Despite the Adventist Church in Greece being small, Clair now intends to return later in the year to provide more training and ideas – simply based on great enthusiasm and desire for learning expressed by committed lay-leaders.
For more on the exciting story of Children’s Ministry in the Greek Mission watch a short video report. [tedNEWS]
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