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Ministry to Children is a top priority of Hope for the Future. In 1998 HFTF saw the need to minister to children while conducting a pastor conference. The leader of the conference felt challenged by the Lord to minister to the children and 35 made genuine commitments to Christ. Today 50,000 plus children have made commitments to Christ
Our churches in Kaji Kegi County have a Children’s ministry focus and ae lerading school assemblies for evangelism and spiritual growth in the local schools. Our children’s teams have taught local workers and leaders how to use The Children’s Ministry Resource Bible as the main source of lessons for our children’s ministry we are conducting. We are now partnering with a local ministry led by Sudanese workers to conduct Children’s Ministry Workshops to equip emerging children's workers.
With reports from the UN saying 59% of those returning are between the ages of 5 and 17 the need to continue to develop children’s leaders is growing. Our teams have been training young leaders who have taken on the vision of leading others to ministe to the children. They have lead thousands of children to make decisions for Christ through children’s church, bible clubs, along with heading our school assemblies team, travel to our other churches to help train their children’s church leaders and run the children’s ministry on the film and crusade teams.
After years of telling our leaders the children are the Hope and Future of their country, our pastors have caught the vision and are excited to minister to children; and will tell you the how great the need is to reach the kids. They themselves are attending the children’s ministry workshops to ensure their churches are ministering to the children.
We have come a long ways from 2002 when our first short term HFTF team with people specializing in children's ministry went to South Sudan to minister in the schools. Today some of those kids that were reached by that team are our now our young leaders.
