Challenges

After being in the ministry now for 50 years, I am still learning new things daily. During those years I was in the ministry in the USA for ten years; we lived thirteen years in Zaire Africa, and now serving as the Exec. Director of Missions Alive for the past 25 years. Wow, living on faith with God has had its challenges! I have always believed and practiced prayer and waiting on God, but my faith has been challenged this last year more than ever in my lifetime.

I have seen through all those years the need to train kids for Christ and have spent over 300 weeks of my lifetime in camps with youth because I have felt they need to hear of the work of missions overseas and to be challenged to becoming missionaries themselves. I became a magician, ventriloquist, balloonist, and many other arts just to be able to reach kids with the message. I love being with kids; I guess I am just a kid at heart. I saw these as challenges to be able to reach my goals of reaching kids for Christ.

We felt the Lord's leading in starting a dynamic program called "KidzCan". These weekly video series are programmed to help kids during their formative years to understand missions and to assist them into making live changing decisions toward supporting and intering missions as their careers. No other program on the market even comes close to achieving these goals. This program has been the greatest challenge in my ministry.

Why would I say that? KidzCan employs nealy 50 people which includes actors, writers, video crew, staff, animator, several cordinators, artists, production crew, distribution crew, and many more. Wow, so many people involved!

KidzCan is expensive to develop which means critical planning to raise the funds which includes grant writers, director of development and me traveling, speaking, e-mailing, phoning, and writing daily. So many meetings, committees, etc. We are way behind getting all the funds needed to continue, giving us greater challenges.

Just keeping the equipment working, the mikes from squealing or clothes rattling the hidden mikes is a major headache. Scheduling the shoots, getting the people all there at the sites, becomes a challenge.

I could go on about the behind the scenes stuff, but the big challenge is to get the message just right that will influence kids making decisions to accept the challenge of Christ to obey the great commission and reach the world for Christ.

We ask for your prayers that KidzCan will be the vessel to change the approach in teaching kids about missions and it will challenge many to step up to go or support those going.