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Teaching Sunday school teachers in Honduras with pastor Lonny Adams
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What happens when a church realizes they've been overlooking their youngest members? Pastor Lonny Adams takes us on a remarkable journey into the mountains of Honduras. Using simple tools like wordless books and Play-Doh Brother Lonny Adams and his teams demonstrations revealed how they could effectively teach children. One good thing about this initiative is its sustainability. Rather than creating dependency on American missionaries, the program empowers local churches with culturally-appropriate curriculum designed specifically for their one-room buildings and limited resources. As Adams powerfully states, "I'm waiting for the day that we have set those mountains on fire with kids' ministry and the gospel and there's a revival sweeping across the nation."
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Hey everybody, welcome back to the God's Little One podcast with your host Kent. Today we are going to be talking to Pastor Lonnie Adams. He is the Senior Pastor of First Assembly in Sherman, texas. Brother, thank you for being here today. Hey, it's my pleasure to be here. So we got a. What we're going to be talking about today is just you getting into missions and stuff and you doing stuff with Honduras. We got some big stuff going on that you've been involved with. But to go ahead and start out, why don't you explain how you got into missions work?
Speaker 2:Sure. So when I was a teenager, my pastor, mark Vaughn, invited me along on a trip that the church was going to be taking to San Luis Potosi, mexico, and I was young, I hadn't ever been on a missions trip, hadn't really ever given commissions. But I got to accompany them on that trip and see churches that operated in a different context than mine and got to see how the Lord could move in different places, and it built a very strong interest in me in missions and the mission field in general.
Speaker 1:What was the first trip you went on?
Speaker 2:It was that trip to San Luis Potosi there in. I think it was the year 2001 when I went for the first time and got to see the ministry of David and LaDonna Trawick at that time Light in the Darkness Ministries planting churches and strengthening churches in that area and we got to go and participate in some church services, do some preaching, do some practical ministry, got to do some puppet shows on the street and it was just an awesome time.
Speaker 1:What was your first? How'd you get in contact with Brother Danny about going on a missions trip with us, god's Little One?
Speaker 2:So actually I stood on a missions board that was going to send a couple of its pastors to minister there at a pastor's conference in the Limpira Mountains for God's Little One, and the invitation came to me to be able to go and so I decided I wanted to, prayed about it, and that was my first exposure on the ground to God's Little One. Now we were already supporting God's Little One monthly, but I got to see it face-to-face that way.
Speaker 1:What was your response whenever the opportunity came Like, were you excited? Did you not really want to go?
Speaker 2:Or like, how was you feeling about it? No, I was thrilled about that. I I was. I've been to missions trips in mexico, like I said, and then also the nation of zambia in in uh, sub-saharan africa, and when I the chance was coming for me to see the work in honduras, I was very excited to be able to go on that trip uh, so that first trip, explain like what y'all did on that first trip and like who you got to go with and stuff, and go ahead and just talk a little bit about that first trip so sure it was a.
Speaker 2:It was in 2023, I think in the spring um on that trip and, uh, got to go with pastor randy snow, um phil marino of landmark missions and um, then, of course, um Danny Sweeney, and then your dad, richard Sweeney, and you, and so that was an awesome trip. It was Got to go and attend a pastor's training there, got to teach a little bit in that and I think that was the first one that they had had since COVID had hit, and it was just an awesome time. Preached in a couple of local churches, got to go visit a church that had been rebuilt just in recent months before that and just got to kind of, like I said, get face-to-face and hands-on with the work that's happening there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the cool thing about that trip and I think I told you this before but was that when my papa we've talked about this on the podcast, but my papa, daniel Sweeney, whenever he founded God's Little One, he had a vision of a building he wanted built and we did the missions or we did those preacher teaching stuff or I don't know what they I'm trying to think those pastor conferences that we did. It was the first time we got to go do services in the glow center and it was really, really cool getting to do that. Uh, whenever you got to see, uh, what was your expectations going into that missions trip?
Speaker 2:you know, I really wasn't sure, um, what all was going to be on the ground or what the churches were like. So I was kind of coming in with a blank canvas when we left and, um, and was just excited to see what things were like there on the ground in honduras uh, what, what of that first trip?
Speaker 1:what like, like. What touched you most about going like of the trip?
Speaker 2:well, I'm going to be honest, it on. It was like I said. It was the first pastors conference since uh coveted, so they hadn't been together in that way, um, in some time. And just seeing the hunger of the pastors being able to see the way that, you know, I'm pastor of church here in um in the us and uh being able to see how the pastors of a different country uh had the same hunger and and just their response to the word and their uh eagerness and passion to do the ministry. That was the thing that touched me the most was being able to just see them respond to the word and just, you know, get strength to go back out and do their ministries in the villages and cities where they were stationed.
Speaker 1:Right, you got any stories you'd like to tell of that trip, some stuff that happened.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I think one thing that really is a highlight for me and I don't remember the name of the village that we went to, but we went and there had been some donations made to a church that had I think you had said that they lost their building in a storm or in a flood and anyway so they had rebuilt, they were near the process of being finished.
Speaker 2:They had rebuilt, they were near the process of being finished. We got to go visit and, even though the donations had been made from the US side, I was able to see how that little church there in that village, every year they had a coffee harvest, so they had different business models that would come in and when cash would come in from those things, they would use what they had to buy the chairs or to buy sound equipment or whatever things that they needed. So it was really awesome for me to see a missions organization being able to donate, but also seeing the church partner with those donations, to see a church go forward and see people invested in it. So that was really awesome for me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that village uh, it's really a powerful story because I actually got to go um beginning of beginning of last year I got to go uh for the first time, go preach in that village and it was pretty cool uh getting to go there. And we went on that trip with uh randy uh randy, randy, snow and phil marino and that was a very, very good trip. Very powerful services. What'd you, what'd you think getting this go ahead?
Speaker 2:no, I'm just gonna say it was. It was so powerful that the presence of the lord was just there and every, every time we got together it was.
Speaker 1:What'd you think of the services compared to services we have here in the States? You know it's different.
Speaker 2:We have, you know, here in the States we, you know, I guess we're privileged to have a lot of nice instruments and, you know, climate control and things set up just the way that we want to be comfortable and have the best kind of services that we can. They do it there without a lot of those conveniences, right, but I'll say that their passion for worship is second to none.
Speaker 1:Oh, I know.
Speaker 2:And their ability to just sing and worship along with whatever instruments are available. You know, one day they had a couple of musicians come in from a church that were very skilled, very professional, sounding very good and the worship was awesome. A different day it wasn't quite the same setup, but the worship wasn't affected by that. They just are intent on worshiping Jesus in whatever circumstance they're in.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, that's their. That's like I talked to Brother Joey about this Like that's their life. Church is that's their. This that's their life.
Speaker 2:Churches, that's their fun.
Speaker 1:That's all they got yeah.
Speaker 2:Like we went on a. When all you have is Jesus, when all you have is Jesus, he becomes of utmost importance to you.
Speaker 1:Right right, there's one church up there in the mountains. I don't know if they still do it, but they would have church every single night before you just come if you wanted to come. It wasn't expected you to come every service, but they had it every night for people to come whenever they wanted to.
Speaker 2:And that was their life. That's powerful and that's the thing that we get back to In those mountain areas. It's such an impoverished area. There aren't a lot of entertainment venues, there aren't a lot of people can just get out and do, but the fact is, their church is, I think I think it's a little bit closer aligned to the new Testament model than what we have here, because it is the center. It's the center of their lives and their days.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so getting off that, getting off that first trip, uh, y'all recently last year had another trip, I think it was last year, and y'all did something we've never done before. But before we get on what y'all never done, let's go ahead and talk about everything else on that trip. So what all y'all do on that trip before, besides the big thing?
Speaker 2:so that trip we were able to go with, uh, pastor, uh chris and leslie wilkins, um the wesley mills was there, brother danny was there. We were able to go with Pastor Chris and Leslie Wilkins, wesley Mills was there, brother Danny was there and I got to go along Surrounding the big issue. We were able to visit some churches for a couple of reasons Some great preaching. Pastor Chris preached wonderfully. There was a Sunday morning service that was kind of geared to the kids. Brother Danny and Brother Wesley worked together to do David and Goliath and I thought that was kind of geared to the kids. But Danny and Brother Wesley worked together to do David and Goliath and I thought that was awesome. We handed out toys in several villages for their toy distribution campaigns and had kids lined up from the front to the back of the sanctuary, sometimes multiple times. They're just gladly and gratefully received those gifts that have been sent from donors all over America, right.
Speaker 1:What did you think of seeing the kids know Right? What did you think of seeing the Kids Crusades? What did you think of that?
Speaker 2:Of seeing the toy distribution. Yeah, yeah, I thought it was wonderful and remarkable how patient they were to wait, how grateful they were, you know, for some really relatively basic and simple contributions, you know. But they were very happy to receive and I was thankful for the way that it. You know, there were some that were inside the church and some that were outside the church who got to receive and it just kind of made the love of Jesus shine strong there.
Speaker 1:Right. So the big thing that happened on that trip and this is we've never done this before in the history of God's Little One, this is the first time we've done this is y'all did Sunday school, y'all teach Sunday school teachers. Which God? Which Honduras, the area that we have? They have no Sunday school teachers. So this was a very big deal. So where did this idea come from?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so, uh, just to back up a little bit, um you bit, you know, with the children's ministry training. I think that when the, you know, a lot of the nation of Honduras is coming away from the old beliefs of like Catholicism and the Catholic Church and things like, that but one of the strong teachings they have is that the age of accountability, or when somebody is responsible to respond to Jesus for their salvation, doesn't happen until the kid's 12, you know.
Speaker 2:And so they looked at kids' ministry or ministry to people of a very young age kind of as a non-issue, because it could be saved. But I think they're beginning to realize and see, you know, that that's actually not a good model because by the time the kids are 12 and 13, they're already getting involved in things that are going to pull them away from the church rather than plug them in. And so, in response to that, brother Sweeney was talking to me. I was wanting to get a group from my church to go and talking about what might be possible, and he said you know what would be a really good idea? He said one thing we haven't had a lot of help with. He said haven't had a lot of help with. He said they're starting to do more kids ministry there. He said children's church, sunday school, whatever it may be, christian school setting. He said we'd love to do training together for them.
Speaker 2:And I said, hey, you know we've done kids crusades here and kids ministry in various formats for, you know, 20 years or more and my wife and I as individuals and then 18 years together, I said let's put something together and do a training for them. And that's kind of as we were planning the trip and figuring out what was going to happen. That was kind of how it came together. When Brother Sweeney realized that we were willing to do it, he was very excited. When I realized he had the need, I thought, hey, this is our gifting.
Speaker 2:So we were super excited to get on the initial trip. We did three days of training and put some curriculum, uh, in their hands that they could use to teach a class. You know, um, but things we've got to consider here on making that program is, you know, again kind of a distinction between our american churches and those churches there is? When you walk into one of our churches we've got several Sunday school rooms, maybe a kids' ministry area, a youth ministry area, a varying level of facilities all surrounding a sanctuary. Well, when you go to their churches they're really just kind of one room. Maybe you keep them off to the side. It's not a lot of classrooms and so they're having to do their Sunday school or children's church programs before or after the main service or at an off time and get the whole group of kids together. So it really is going to kind of require a tailor-made program to get these teachers equipped to really do good discipleship with the kids.
Speaker 1:So what we?
Speaker 2:have going is we're writing some lessons in a kid's format, a very basic format with illustrations that don't require a lot of purchases.
Speaker 2:That can be done in as little as 15 minutes or as much as maybe 30 minutes or an hour, depending on what their setup is and what their needs are. But basically we're going to have lessons together that they can use over the process of a year or two years that they can use to teach with, like I say, hands-on illustrations that will be useful Sunday after Sunday and they can repeat them. That we're going to offer a program of discipleship that kids will know. Kids will know about the Bible, they'll know the books of the Bible and they'll know the stories, the bible and by the time that they are just even a few years old, they'll have a, a working knowledge of the scriptures. And one thing that's really special about that, brother Kent, is there's actually a lady that attends our church here who grew up in San Pedro Sula, which is the biggest city near where we go there in Lempira, and she's going to help us in bringing some of that curriculum from English into Spanish.
Speaker 1:That's remarkable. God's just got somebody from the same country in there with y'all. I said this that one time, that that could be God sent.
Speaker 2:You know I absolutely believe that God did that. I think that he, you know, even a long time ago, understood the place we were all going to be in, the needs we had and who he was going to put in what place, and I think that he lined a lot of this up, you know, in his sovereignty, in times and places that we couldn't even see.
Speaker 1:Right. So as far as like the material, like you said, you're bringing the material. What material are y'all bringing to them?
Speaker 2:So again, it's some lessons that we're in the midst of writing right now we're going to. The goal is to have like a master copy of materials that we can leave at the Glow Center along with the you know, a copy, or we'll say it again Like in bulk, yeah, and so that way we can.
Speaker 2:It'll be just a single copy of each of the lessons, but they are able to we're going to leave like a copier there that they are able to walk in the director is able to walk in make the copies for the churches that are needed and be able to distribute those in quite a quick fashion so that we can get those lessons to them anytime that they need them.
Speaker 1:Right, that's going to be awesome. So you say that these are teaching around. What did you say? That they were teaching exactly?
Speaker 2:So it's going to be a lot of the stories of the Bible. It'll be a few lessons on holidays and a few lessons on Christian character and discipleship, so that by the time the kids are graduated from these Sunday school programs and Christian education programs they're going to be ready to step into lives of ministry and blessing in their community. They're going to be trained as Christians even from a very young age.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and this is a really big deal, because last year I went on a missions trip last year and we was doing a youth conference. Because they don't like from kids, even the teens, they don't do a lot with their kids, like you said earlier, they don't teach them hardly, like they really don't know what to do, they're just there, you know, and that's the thing.
Speaker 2:I, what, I, what, I'm my burden for this, because I know that there's different ones who are going through, like you said, uh, uh and and taking taking to the nation Kids Crusades. I know Sister Mackenzie Sweeney's doing a great job, just you know, lighting up those villages with Kids Crusades and different things. My burden and my passion is to see the young people of these churches in Honduras see what she's doing and be trained, have the adults be trained on how to do something similar to that. And just as these kids grow and multiply and the churches grow, I'd love to see them be able to send out into places that maybe even GLOW can't reach yet with the message of the gospel on a kid's level, to be able to just make evangelism happen there. I know Brother Sweeney has taken some groups back into places in the mountains where a lot of Christian missionaries have never even been, and I would love to see the local churches there be empowered with kids ministry to go into some of those villages and make a difference for Jesus.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's been really talking a lot about that. He's really wanting Brother Danny, the missions director. He's really wanting to see the churches and their young people be able to do this stuff to where, when we're not there, it continues. To where they don't rely on us as much, to where they can do it on their own, and it really is a big deal. Well, and that really is the heart.
Speaker 2:I believe behind missions movement is when somebody from a different nation goes in. They're able to help establish and give some parenthood to the churches that are there. But eventually the ministries that they take with them should be something that those churches can replicate in their own language, in their own culture and take on for themselves, you know yeah, we're here.
Speaker 1:We're there to teach them so that they can do it themselves that's right so, uh, so we've talked about what the uh, the sunday school curriculum is and stuff, so that last trip y'all went and y'all teached. When did y'all do that? Exactly what? What year was that?
Speaker 2:that took place place in May just this year, may of 2024.
Speaker 1:And y'all taught them, explain like how y'all taught them and stuff like about the teaching process and stuff.
Speaker 2:So what we did was we opened up the first session with just sort of our philosophy and what the Scripture says about the reason for kids' ministry and I just taught a lesson called Jesus Really Loves the Children ministry. And I just I taught a lesson called Jesus Really Loves the Children and I talked about how the disciples came to him and asked him who is the greatest in the kingdom of God. And it says that he brought a child in there. He said whoever is like a child, whoever comes to me like a child, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And I just kind of gave them the spiritual truth that children were someone, were individuals and people that Christ really cared about reaching and ministering to. And you know the national director there, luis Vargas, who oversees a lot of those churches in that area. He said that he could just kind of feel like he sensed generational blindness coming off in some degree, that people would really prioritize ministering to kids and not just kind of doing what you mentioned before, which is kind of having them be there but not really participate, not really be useful in a larger program. And so, as that's changing, we realized that some of these people who are tasked with ministering to the kids have never been trained to do it really on a biblical model. So after that we came in and we started teaching them sort of practical ways to minister to the kids.
Speaker 2:One thing distinctively that we did, and this was actually my wife, lori Adams' idea.
Speaker 2:She was not able to go on the trip but she put this together for us. It was called a wordless book and so it had several pieces of felt of different colors and using those colors we were able to prompt them to tell the gospel story, you know, based on a heart that was black with sin, the blood of Jesus that was shed for us and cleanse us, white things like that. And I was able to watch and give them an opportunity, and pastor and teacher after pastor and teacher came and was able to present the gospel without any kind of prompting, without any kind of a memory prompt other than just seeing the colors of the pages, and it was almost like you could see them be empowered to tell their kids about that. Now, fun thing I saw Danny Sweeney at a funeral the other day and he told me that the last time he visited Honduras he went into a village and went into the church and in the little area where they minister to the kids. One of those wordless books was hanging from the pulpit there.
Speaker 2:No way yeah.
Speaker 1:That's awesome yeah so we were really happy about that. That shows you that we were really happy about that.
Speaker 2:That shows you that they grasped, that they were listening Well, and two it shows that even the adults, the idea of kids ministry is opening up a new avenue for the way that they understand.
Speaker 1:Jesus, Right yeah.
Speaker 2:And it's making an impact in both the young and the old there in Honduras.
Speaker 1:Right, you talked a little bit about the response you got. What was the response from the people you were teaching and stuff? How did they react to it?
Speaker 2:Oh, after that first session they just had tears running down their faces and their hands were raised. They prayed that God would enable them to be effective in ministering to kids. And just you know through the sessions whether we were doing. You know through the sessions whether we were doing. You know we had some fun classes where we were having them, you know, make sculptures out of Play-Doh and just modeling kids' ministry to them and they were laughing with that. They were basically being kids and learning about kids' ministry. But also when the Lord challenged their hearts, man, they opened up their hearts and they responded with tears on their faces and hands upraised. It was awesome.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I wanted to go on that trip and I had stuff coming. I actually had gotten off of a trip a couple months before that one, so I didn't end up going on that one, but I heard stuff about it and I was really wanting to go because I knew this is like we said earlier. This is the first time we've ever done anything like this, so it's awesome getting to see something like this grow, and I know it's going to grow more than it is now For someone who'd like to donate to this part of God's Little Missions. What kind of stuff do y'all need?
Speaker 2:Well, the biggest need I think at this time is going to be just keeping a fresh supply of paper to be able to print the lessons on. You know, some of the resources up in the mountains are not readily available. That's going to be the biggest need. Also, we're going to try to give a resource packet that's available, kind of based on each lesson, of materials or illustrations that they could use on a rotating basis, or even things they could just use to go along with any class. Keeping a fresh supply of those things is going to be essential to be able to keep a high quality of kids ministry going in every one of the churches.
Speaker 2:So, this is the deal Paper's less than $10. A lot of the products that we're going to be sending over, like one big thing, is going to be Play-Doh. We're going to be supplying miniature uh, miniature, um, uh signs, the containers of that play-doh, and those come in very cheap assortment, you know. So it doesn't have to be that somebody's breaking the bank but they can say, hey, my ten dollars really matter because it's going to supply kids ministry for several months for local. Oh yeah, it's facts and I think that's, that's a powerful thing right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, any little bit's going to be used. But something kills me that you said I never thought in a million years that God's little one would be shipping Play-Doh to Honduras. I just think that's funny. But the kids, that's part of the ministry, that's part of the Sunday school stuff and it helps you know this is the thing.
Speaker 2:In the long run, I'd like to see some of the people there be able to, as they build up their kids' ministries, as their churches get stronger in these ways, there be some budget created to make sure this happens on a local level.
Speaker 2:But, I think that, as we're just getting some of these ministries off the ground, this is going to be part of the load that we bear to make sure that all this happens. But I think it's what a joyful thing, what a joyful thing to be able. I remember my second Sunday school class that I was ever in. I remember they pulled out Play-Doh and we were able to make some of the sculptures of the characters of the story that we read, and I just can't help but think, you know, that we're going to be able to put something on the ground that's going to help some of these children, who may have never seen some of this stuff, be able to see Jesus in a fresh way.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, I remember back whenever we would. We would back in Sunday school have like little crafts and draw on stuff and that's, that's part of Sunday school.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:So, getting back to just talking about the trip, we're going to get back to a little bit more of the Sunday school stuff. But getting back to just the trip, that latest trip, what touched you the most from that trip?
Speaker 2:I just think that, honestly, just that freshness of the burden of these national workers, to be able to see, hey, these kids are important that's a realization we had to come to in our ministry here is to say God really cares about the kid. But to be able to sort of export that message and see people who have never really thought of it that way begin to see the burden of it to me was just a very powerful thing. It felt like I was on the cutting edge of some things that are happening down there.
Speaker 1:Right, if you were sitting there and someone was sitting, if you were sitting in front of somebody who didn't see kids ministry as a big deal, what would you have to say to them?
Speaker 2:I guess I would have to say, I would ask them what they remembered from their childhood or their kindergarten year and how many of those things went with them into adulthood. And you know, I think I would remind them that they have memories of those years and everything that really a child is going to be settled in in their belief system happens by the time they're 11 years old and I would ask them where would you be now if somebody hadn't ministered to you or given you the ability to be a functional adult when you were that age? And now let's turn and see. This generation is depending on us as adults, on us as fully trained people, to be able to live a life for Christ, and if we don't turn and give them what they need for that, they're not going to have it.
Speaker 1:That's right, Because we had it or y'all had it. I say we. I don't know how old you are exactly, but I know you're probably over 10 years older than me. So I say we, Y'all had it, my generation has it, but the kids in Honduras they've not had it for years. Now they're able to have it and it's really a powerful thing.
Speaker 2:Hey, thank you for not throwing out a number and a guess on how old I am.
Speaker 1:I'll tell you, I thought about it, but I didn't.
Speaker 2:By the end of this month I'll be turning 40.
Speaker 1:Oh man.
Speaker 2:And I'm looking back at my life right now. I'm looking forward in my life and I'm realizing I've got footsteps to follow in, but I've also got to lay a path following behind me for kids to walk in to see Jesus. That's right and I'm happy to be able to do that in Honduras.
Speaker 1:That's right. So what do you hope? Are you all planning on going on? Any trips coming up?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I've discussed a couple of dates with Brother Sweeney. We haven't really put firm dates on it. We'd like to go possibly the month of May next year and, uh, we'd like to be able to go do kids ministry training in these churches on an annual basis for as long as that's needed.
Speaker 1:Uh, so I think we're about to end this podcast, but um is uh. What do you, what do you hope to see in the future of this ministry?
Speaker 2:Man I'd love to see. I'd love to see, I'd love to see people all over the places that are difficult to reach there in that nation, because of geography, because of terrain, because of whatever else culture. I'd love to see people in that area, their hearts softened and the gospel take hold in a way that it never has, because it takes hold through the generation of children who are so impressionable through Jesus. I'd love to see churches that grow and actually are established because they have to do something to meet the need of the children who've gotten saved and need to know who Jesus is. I'd love to see that happen.
Speaker 1:Amen. So we're about to end this. I'd like to give you a chance for any closing remarks. Is there anything you'd like to say before we end?
Speaker 2:this podcast. Hey man we're just so thankful.
Speaker 2:We're so thankful to be able to team up with Lowe on this. I've gotten more and more exposed to the ministry there. I'm a believer in it. I'm a believer in what they're doing, especially in an area where a lot of people aren't willing to go, even from their own nation of Honduras. There's a lot of people who aren't willing to go up into the mountains of Limpura, but this ministry is basing its entire existence on reaching people in that hard-to-reach area and man. I'm waiting for the day that we have set those mountains on fire with kids' ministry and the gospel and there's a revival sweeping across the nation.
Speaker 1:And with that I would like to thank Brother Lonnie Adams for being here on the podcast. Thank you for giving us well, some of your time twice to do this. It's been a pleasure and I can't wait to be able to do this again in five or six years, whenever we got this thing grown to more than it is now. I can't wait to get to talk to you again about this.
Speaker 2:You have a good one, hey Brother. Ken, thanks so much for the chance to be here.
Speaker 1:You have a great day you too. In Matthew 25, starting in verse 35, it says For I was an hungred and ye gave me meat. I was thirsty and ye gave me drink. I was a stranger and ye took me in Naked and ye clothed me. Naked and ye clothed me. I was sick and ye visited me. I was in prison and ye came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him saying Lord, when saw we thee and hungered and fed thee, or thirsty and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger and took thee in, or naked and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick or in prison, and came unto thee? And the king shall answer and say unto them Verily, I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, my brethren, ye have done it unto me. This verse is talking about God judging and separating the saved from the lost, and it's talking about him saying all this stuff he's naming off all this stuff, from visiting people in prison to helping people who are hungry, who don't have clothes on their back and it says if you do this to the least of these, you do it to me, and I just want to talk about that for a minute. I want to say that there is many kinds of ministry out there Not just preaching, not just singing, not just missionary work. If you're called to those things, though, I encourage you, do the best you can. It can be hard, but stick with it anyway. But if you're not called to those things, there are so many different ways of ministry out there God wants us to do. I named a few right here in this verse Visiting people in prison, going to the sick, praying with the sick, helping those who have no food, helping those who have nothing to drink, no clothes to put on their back, helping the homeless, helping people in the world. This is all ministry right here.
Speaker 1:We talked a lot in this podcast about kids' ministry. Kids' ministry is very important. We've got at our church we do kids' ministry. We go to an area here in our town and we go pick up kids and we bring them to church and we've seen one or two get saved, and this is part of ministry. You might not ever see anything happen from it, I'm not going to lie. You might never see the fruits of your labor. You might never see what happens, but if God is calling you to do it, do it anyway.
Speaker 1:If you're doing it, it says if you do it unto the least of these, my brethren, you do it unto me. We're doing this when we help somebody. We're doing this to God. We're doing this because we want to please God. God is calling us to do this. If you want to please God, then do what he's telling you. If you're a Christian, I assume you want to please God. So if you want to please God, then do what he's calling you to do, whether that's to preach, to sing, to witness, whether that's to go to the homeless, whether that's to go to the prisons, whether that's to go to the hospital, whether that's to go on the street, whether that's to work in the church. My dad's ministry, he's told me, is working, building stuff, fixing stuff. That's my dad's ministry. So if that's your ministry, do it.
Speaker 1:But whatever God is calling you to do, I don't care what it is. It could be the most random thing out there, like you're, like God, how can you use this to benefit you? But I promise you, if it's his calling, he's got a plan. It could be to donate money. It could be to use your money as a ministry, because that is very important, especially for missions work, especially for the church, especially giving money to people who need it. It is very important. So I encourage you in whatever God calls you to do, even if it's not even a ministry, if it's just something you feel like God is telling you to do, like give money, or he's telling you to go to a certain place for a time, or it could be something like that. Whatever he wants you to do, whatever he's telling you to do, I encourage you to obey God, trust him and do it, no matter what. Well, we hope you enjoyed this episode of the God's Little One podcast.
Speaker 1:I got to give you all a little confession, so this is one of the first podcasts that I recorded. This is actually the second one, if I remember right, so I was still learning my equipment pretty much, so the audio on this thing is not the best. I just want to explain why it wasn't the best we've ever had. We've definitely had better ones. We most likely have better coming in the future. Well, I can guarantee we'll have better coming in the future. I apologize for that, but this was like one of the first ones we did, so we were still figuring out. So thank you for listening anyway, because, yeah, thank you for listening. I also have two other things to say about that. Number one.
Speaker 1:Another confession is I recorded this podcast twice. The first time we did it, I had some problems with my batteries and my batteries went dead. I had to go get more batteries and stuff. But when we got done with the podcast, I got off with Brother Lonnie and I went to go, and when I go, press a button and it gives me the option to either save or don't save. If you don't save, you delete the podcast. I deleted the podcast. I pressed the wrong button. So I called him back and said, hey, I deleted the podcast. I told him I was going to try and figure it out. Never ended up just figuring it out. We just rescheduled. He was gracious enough to give me some more time and we redid it and y'all get to listen to it today. So, yeah, that's what happened with this podcast. It was something that I hope never has to happen again.
Speaker 1:I don't want to have stuff they don't know. I like that not knowing and getting to learn it on a podcast. I think that's cool, or maybe not cool, but I like having that, but so, yeah, we eventually got it. We eventually got it figured out and y'all got to listen to it. The other thing I want to say is if y'all would like to donate to this specific goal we have of the Sunday school stuff, brother Lonnie is going to be sending me a list on Amazon, or some kind of link on Amazon, to some items that we would like to have, and we're going to be putting that on our Facebook page. So I encourage you, whether you want to give or not, if you just like to see that stuff or if you want to give, then you can go on there and go look at that and if you decide you would like to donate, then just buy some of that stuff. Either you can ship it to yourself or, if you'd like to ship it to us, you can send it to our PO Box, which I'll be telling at the end of this podcast. So, yeah, if you do decide to give, we really do appreciate it. Thank you, and we hope you enjoyed this podcast.
Speaker 1:In our next podcast, we're going to be talking to Dre Hobson and Thaddeus Massey I believe I got that name right, but you'll see in the next podcast if I got it right or not, these two guys. They went on kids ministry trips. We're going to be talking to them. That's two back-to-back talking about kids ministry. They talk about more than that, but that's the main focus of these two. We'll be talking to them about kids ministry and just their experiences on the trips they've been on. But if I remember right, it's been a while since I've recorded. Most of it is kids ministry, so you'll be hearing more about that. You'll be hearing their experiences.
Speaker 1:We hope you enjoy that one. I will go ahead and give you all a heads up warning so I don't have to say all that about having problems with this one as much. I probably still will end up. But on this podcast, this one that we will be listening to, the next one that we will be posting, it is the first podcast that I ever posted. So first time ever figuring out my equipment and to start out my podcast that I started recording, I started out with two people in one one podcast one person here in the studio with me, one person on the phone had some wifi problems at the end Y'all probably see what happened. But yeah, we're still going to post it. We hope y'all enjoy that podcast. But anyway, thank you for listening to this episode of the God's little one podcast. We hope you enjoyed it.
Speaker 1:If you would like to donate to us in any way, our po box is po box 904, oakdale, louisiana, 71463. Anything you can give, whether it's for this, uh, sunday school stuff, or if you want to donate some toys money, whatever it is, we we really do appreciate it. We actually have a paypal now. Also, if you'd like to use that way to donate money, that's going to be if you go looking on our Facebook page. If you scroll down, it will be on there on a post we did. So I definitely encourage you, if you'd like to give that way, to go look at that. But if you'd like to call or text us and ask us any questions or just give us your thoughts about the podcast or anything like that, you can text us or call us at 318-491-1772. And we really would like to hear y'all's feedback.
Speaker 1:We're trying to get more feedback on this podcast. We really, really want to do a Q&A at the end of the year, but we got to get the questions coming out before we can do that. So I definitely encourage y'all to please ask us questions. If y'all have got one y'all been hiding back there that y'all want to ask, uh, feel free to ask it. Or if you uh just just want to get get your name in a podcast, this is a way to do it. So if you can think of a question, you give it to us and we'll be saying who gave the name gave the question at the pod that podcast. But anyway, thank you for listening to this episode of the God's Little One podcast. We hope you enjoyed it. We hope y'all have a wonderful day. God bless y'all and we will see y'all on the next podcast.