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SEEK the children of this world with bro. Terry Miles
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Terry Miles, founder of the SEEK team (Servants Establishing and Equipping Kids), takes us on a powerful journey through children's ministry. With a passionate mission to reach children. Brother Terry and his team bring the Gospel to these kids in other countries and even in the US.
Terry reveals a troubling pattern he's discovered across continents: "It seems like that is a trend in almost every nation that we go to... they leave the kids behind." The SEEK team delivers clear gospel messages to these kids.
The impact is undeniable. We hear moving stories from Honduras, where children broke down in tears during worship. In Taiwan, where Christians represent less than 3% of the population, hundreds of non-believing children enthusiastically participated in gospel activities. Perhaps most striking was the scene in Zambia, where elderly women in their seventies listened to the entire puppet presentation and two accepted Christ afterward.
Brother Terry's voice breaks with emotion when asked what he would say to someone who doesn't believe children's ministry is important: "God told us to bring the little ones to him." Brother Tarry shows his passion for kids ministry and reminds us it's important.
Through simple tools Terry's team creates unforgettable experiences that plant seeds in young hearts and also have reached the adults as well.
Listen to this powerful conversation that will challenge your perspective on children's ministry in global evangelism.
Hey everybody, welcome back to the God's Little Ones podcast with your host, kent. Today we've got a very special podcast. We're going to be talking to Terry Miles. He is the assistant pastor at Bible Holiness Assembly of God Church in Neosha, missouri. He teaches at Ozark Bible Institute in college and what we're really going to lean on is he is the founder of the SEEK team. Terry, thank you for being here with us.
Speaker 2:You're welcome, it's my pleasure.
Speaker 1:So to get this podcast started. We got a lot of stuff to talk about, but to get started, how about you go ahead and tell everybody how you first got into missions work?
Speaker 2:As a student at Ozark Bible Institute, I always wanted to go on a mission trip. Never really had the opportunity. About 10 years after graduating, a friend of mine, chuck Akers, a missionary to Venezuela, had asked if we could come down there and work on a church building. So I put together a team of guys and we went down there and did some construction work. I did that several years in a row and while I was there he asked me a question if I'd come and be a missionary, if I'd come and be a missionary, and I said you know, I don't know if I could come, but I said if God called me, I would do what he wanted me to do. And in that I just felt the direction to assist missionaries, and so I've been doing that for a little over 20 years assist missionaries, and so I've been doing that for a little over 20 years.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you've been. You've been doing missions work for a long time.
Speaker 2:What was your favorite part of going on missions? I really enjoy helping the missionary that's on the field. I feel compelled to just assist them. Assist them. It started off in building, then it started off, then it moved into helping with children's ministry. I feel really a big need to influence their children while we're there.
Speaker 1:So I know you're bound to have some stories. So is there any compelling stories of your early missions trips that you can tell?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I uh our first trip with uh 20 young people from 12 years old to, uh, about 19.
Speaker 2:And, um, we, uh, we're told just bring it all in a box, bring your food, bring your program, bring it all. And uh, we, uh, we gave it our best shot. I remember my first first day there. Um, we thought we were prepared but we realized, uh, we weren't real prepared. But we had some. We had some great experiences in Venezuela early on and it just kind of led from there Going to Africa with Phil Marino and working with a group of people there being out in the they call it the bush, just out in the far reaches, where there's not a lot of modernism, sharing the gospel with people and seeing kids and grandparents alike being influenced by the gospel, giving their heart to the Lord pretty powerful.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I went on a missions trip uh beginning of last year with Randy Snow and Phil Marino and I heard some of the stories from up there and they got some. They got some interesting things y'all seen up there Uh. So you've done missions work for a long time, uh, but your biggest thing was you created something called you're the founder of it the SEEK team. So when did you start that and what is that exactly?
Speaker 2:The SEEK team. It's an acronym for Servants, Evangelizing and Equipping Kids.
Speaker 1:I didn't know that.
Speaker 2:We kind of changed it a little bit. It's Servants Establishing and equipping kids for international purposes so we could go to different places instead of just saying evangelizing. But we were getting ready to go to Africa and I felt the need to be a little more organized, have a little more long-term influence and just really felt like the Lord gave me the acronym and that's what our mission is, you know, establishing and equipping children in the gospel.
Speaker 1:Right, so explain how y'all do that. Like what, like to do that. What does the Sikh team do when they go on a trip?
Speaker 2:It's a gospel narration. You know it's. It's old school children's church developed into a gospel story.
Speaker 2:Right and so every program that we've done. We've done high sea adventure, we've done safari, we've done just several of them. I think we have five major themes that we've done, but each one of them. First day we're going to deal with salvation, understanding their need for god. Second day, we're going to deal with spiritual warfare, once you come to know the lord it's not easy. And then the third day, about once you know the lord, you need to go out and tell somebody else about the lord, and so we do that through bible story, bible songs, right, and they just try to have a lot of fun. I tell them every trip that I go on we need to have a clear gospel message that the children can understand and a parent can receive, and that's been our goal just have a good, clear gospel message.
Speaker 1:Right, what are some responses you all have had from kids and stuff that it touched them?
Speaker 2:I mean we've had and we do it with big groups, little groups, it doesn't matter the amount of people, right groups, little groups, it doesn't matter amount of people.
Speaker 2:But we've had at the end I call it, preaching points through this storyline where Captain Faithful or Pure Heart or one of those, is sharing how God's working and how God's helping, or how the team is bringing along strength to someone and just real intent, listening Right, and then come to a place in the program where there's time for prayer.
Speaker 2:I've seen in Honduras, one time especially Sister Janine was Captain Faithful and we had prayed with Brother Luis before the program that God would call kids, children to the ministry. Right In the middle of it, children just were breaking down, crying and worshiping the Lord Wow, and we really emphasized the call of God and at the end we had three children. One said I want to do what you guys are doing, basically saying I want to be in children's ministry. Another one stood up and said I want to evangelize Wow. Another one said, said I'd like to be a pastor, and so that's been. Our goal is not just to share the gospel but to create an interest in living their lives to serve the lord till he comes yeah, we've been god's little one.
Speaker 1:We've been really trying to lean a lot with kids, trying to teach them and not just kids, the adults to where they can do this kind of stuff and because they don't do a lot with besides the, when we go up there they don't really do a lot with their kids and we've been trying to teach them more to do stuff with their kids because it's very important. Yes, go ahead, it's very important. Yes.
Speaker 2:Go ahead. It seems like that is a trend in almost every nation that we go to. Really Is that they leave the kids behind.
Speaker 1:So that's not just Honduras, that's more than just Honduras does that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's everybody Really, and so Africa Asia. That's everybody Really, and so Africa Asia. It's just what they think and see is that the children aren't going to really give their lives and live for God until they're 12. Where I had a gentleman from Sudan tell us one year, just 15 years ago, said, if I can reach the children of my nation, I'll reach my nation. And that's really been, and not just them knowing Jesus, but actually participating, A lot of the people that work with me that are the core members have been working with me since they were 12 years old.
Speaker 1:Wow, y'all built up. I don't know where y'all was when y'all began, but y'all have built up. Y'all did RFPYC a couple years ago and I got to help y'all with that and it was some powerful stuff that y'all was doing.
Speaker 2:Yes sir, how has it?
Speaker 1:grown since y'all first started doing.
Speaker 2:Yes, sir, uh, how has it grown since y'all first started? You know, the opportunities are just. You know just a lot of opportunities. We try to take, um, you know, a couple overseas trips during the year, right, um, and then there's a couple places that we go to here in the States. Um our, our core group has stayed with us, probably until maybe this last couple of years. How many kids they've gotten married? Uh, there was about eight of them. Oh, wow.
Speaker 2:About eight of them. Yeah, that's kind of stayed with us, like I said right. They've worked in our children's church. They've worked in the youth ministry, gone on short-term trips with me and then started actually doing Sikh team trips.
Speaker 1:I know your son was doing it recently around here was doing it.
Speaker 2:You didn't get to go with him and he was doing it, doing that. That I believe, if I got that right? Yes, sir, yes sir.
Speaker 2:Um, actually all three of my boys have been a been a part of it. My youngest son, jonathan, and his wife have been the biggest part of it. But you know our, our goal was to train others, you know that could participate in it. The places that we go, we always try to recruit other teens or young adults that would like to be a part. We've had several from down there in your guys' area that traveled with us to Honduras. Yeah, they still remember them, trips and it's you know, it's not us and them right I it's.
Speaker 2:We became a team.
Speaker 2:We become a team wherever we go, people that we add into it you always got to have a core yeah and then then you just kind of plug everybody else in and um, I mean there, and there are several that they're doing it on their own Down in Denton, texas, at Faith Tabernacle. They're out, they've gone to Honduras, they've gone to Guatemala, and even you know McKenzie Sweeney. I mean they're doing it. You know you guys together, you know you guys do children's church and then you're venturing off doing it down there in Honduras. So it's one of those things that's catching.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, yeah, I remember we had a trip sometime this year. Recently we had a trip and McKenzieenzie, sweeney, brother Danny the founder not the founder, the director of God's Little One, his daughter was kind of over it and stuff and a lot of people are several people from our church and I think different people around that area went and did it and it was a powerful, powerful trip. They we did a YouTube video about it. It was phenomenal, awesome. So did y'all have any complications whenever y'all started God's Little One or any problems y'all had to overcome?
Speaker 2:Not really. You know, we were kind of doing it, we were kind of organized. You know we got a little more organized with what we were doing yeah um, and we went to africa several times in a row and that kind of helped us really get established of where we were going right so the field. Marina was a great influence and getting us where we are yeah, we're exact, exactly because I told you earlier.
Speaker 1:you've been all over. Where exactly have all of y'all been that you can name, because I know there's probably some you don't remember?
Speaker 2:We started off in Venezuela and then we went to Guatemala for seven or eight years you know several times during those years. Right. Then we started going to Haiti with the Lloyds Brother and Sister Lloyds, and I think we'd been there nine or ten times and then, kind of simultaneously, we'd go to Haiti and then we'd jump over and go to Honduras with Brother. Danny Right.
Speaker 2:And Brother Danny and I have been friends for years and he's like you've got to bring the Sikh team, you've got to come to Honduras with us. So I said, let's do it, get a date. And by God's grace we were able to do it and I'll be honest with you, it's one of my favorite places to go. The people respond well, they're hungry for the gospel we go to places that I like are up in the mountains, right they're secluded. Yeah, they don't have nothing, just yeah they.
Speaker 1:I feel like they're in great need of hearing the gospel and right people to care about them uh, you, you just leaned on this and I'm going to go ahead and ask you this question anyway. But what is different about besides what you said? What's different, if there's anything different? What's different about Honduras than other places? Y'all have been.
Speaker 2:You know you fly into the city and it's like everywhere else. You know it's busy, it's, you know, full of crime. Right, else you know it's busy. It's, uh, you know, full of crime, right, but when you get up in the mountains, um, I, I really I like seclusion, I like uh rough, you know, area beautiful, I mean oh yeah I like the people and, um, like I said, they respond well, uh, brother, l Luis, is a big part of making the experience powerful, right, and so it's good for your team.
Speaker 2:It's got good logistics. You know what I mean, right, great experience. I feel like every time I go, I take a core and then I take a few that's never been or just barely got their feet wet, and it's just a great place to have a great experience. And so, when you come, I call it. There's two, two factors.
Speaker 2:You have the wow factor and you have the work and you know we're're. You know we're in a grind all the time right but you can go to honduras and and you can be. Wow, that's a miracle man. I've seen several miracles take place in our kids program I've seen. Uh, several people get saved, several people get the baptism of the holy ghost. We baptize people in our kids. You know, I mean right. So there's a lot of really.
Speaker 1:You know, when I say wow, it's like God, you're doing something right yeah, uh, go ahead and uh, you said that y'all have had a lot of things happen out there. Go ahead and I'll leave the floor open for you tell as many stories as you want to tell that you can remember of going to Honduras and stuff of lives y'all seen changed and miracles, y'all seen um, you know, we've, we've, we've come into several places that maybe they've had.
Speaker 2:A individual was healed, you know, prior a couple weeks or a month or two before we got there, and that person comes into our kids program and I mean, they're really worshiping the Lord, got a touch from the Lord. Some of those things are real powerful. Just following up after miracles have been great. You know, just like I said earlier in our talk, is being up there in the mountain where a couple of young people, kids, are feeling the touch of God, the call of God, god, the call of God.
Speaker 2:You know we've had several young men that they're kind of standoffish for the most part but when the Spirit of God's touching and moving and pulls them in, any daughtery that travels with us most of the time has experienced powerful encounters of prayer with young men there and, you know, come back and see that God's done something in their life and they're on fire. Maybe they're working in the church now got married. You know just several things. I think one of the for me, one of the greatest moments was we were getting ready to do our kids program that afternoon but we preached in a church where the pastor had just passed away and the Lord gave us a word and we just felt like there was healing, was taking place in the lives of the church people and God brought us there at that certain time to share that message and you know, being where God wants you, when he wants you, is powerful.
Speaker 2:It's powerful and sometimes I'll be honest with you it's something that it's not our full-time occupation. You know we're not doing it full-time, but we have a great burden for it. Right. We just make time for it, really Make time for it because it's necessary. Kids are important.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, it's are important. Oh yeah, it's very you know it's very important. I've heard, uh, I've done several different podcasts and I've heard several different people say the same thing that uh, and this is. I don't know if you look at it this way or not, but I've had several people say you know if to, if you get to the kids or not quite like this, but to get to the parents, you can get through the kids if that makes sense.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I've had a lot of people say that, so I think I might have asked you this earlier. I'm going to ask you this again, though what has touched you the most about working with the Sikh team in general?
Speaker 2:Probably twofold. I love kids. I love seeing kids be happy you know, be touched by God, be loved, and I think that's one of the great things that I think Brother Danny has in his God's little ones is he's feeding kids, he's sharing the gospel for the kids. Right.
Speaker 2:That's. That's a big part of our passion. I want to be in a place where I can train other young adults to feel like they can do something for God Right. They can make a difference, and I've spent 15 years really training leaders and that's the two miraculous things I I feel like has really happened and I can look back and say that's a leader right and they? They've learned something you know what I mean right.
Speaker 1:So kids and training leaders uh, so I got a question I want to ask you here and I want to see what you're going to say to it, because I asked this question to somebody on another podcast and I wanted to see what your response would be. In this kind of thing, what would you say to someone who does not believe kids' ministry is important? Hello.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm listening.
Speaker 1:No, I was just making sure that I didn't have no internet problem or anything.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I'm really passionate. No, I'm not thinking of an answer, I'm a little emotional. You know, it's important, it doesn't matter what anyone else says. God told us to bring the little ones to him. Right.
Speaker 2:And I believe that it's not about the church of tomorrow. I believe we ought to be sharing the gospel with kids now, training people how to give a good, clear gospel message so kids can understand it. I had a gentleman when I was a student in college. I was out on ministry and I was talking about bus ministry. I was excited about bus ministry and I was telling him about what I'm going to do and what I wanted to do. I thought it was going to go home, start a bus ministry.
Speaker 2:I had a piece of property, I was going to build a garage on it and have children's backyard Bible school, in my little garage, you know, as a, as a 23 or four year old, and he said you're wasting your time. He said, you know, and he went off on all these things that I'll how it didn't work and doesn't work, and and I purposed in my mind and my heart right then to do my best right and try to try to communicate to people that it is important, right, um, and and have the facts.
Speaker 2:You know, I can tell you it works. It does In Africa. I mean, I preach the gospel and I say I, our group, 12, 14 of us, the 10,000 kids, and I've watched them respond to the gospel, we fed them, we loved on them and we we'd come back in a day or two and they'd be walking down the streets, you know, doing the hand motions to the songs and sing, singing the songs. I mean that, walking down their street, you know, right in a dirt road, and so I I just tell them that if they say it don't work, you're going to have to get it prayed through, cause I believe it does.
Speaker 1:Amen, brother, I agree with that. You know if, if, if you teach them when they're young, they'll remember when they get older. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Drain up a child.
Speaker 1:Exactly, so I got a couple more questions here. What do you want to see in the future with the Sikh team?
Speaker 2:You know, I would like to see another group of people raised up that it's not just something I'm doing, but that others are doing. Right something I'm doing, but that others are doing right and um, because it's the field's too big, you know, for what?
Speaker 2:exactly? Just us. So I'd like to see others and I I believe I'm seeing it. Like I said, um, here at Ozark Bible Institute, one of my passions is to have a practical children's ministry program, a focus on it, where they have five, ten classes where they could come here and learn how to be the best children's minister possible, learn that they can do it and God will help them. Right, I had a gentleman. His name was go ahead. I'm sorry. No, you're good, go ahead.
Speaker 2:I was going to say. Marshall Stoner is a mentor, you know, he's passed away. He was here at our church and I came as a freshman and he was doing the children's church program and he said, here, get in here and help me, you know. And so I did, I helped him. And that year when I went home our church didn't have children's ministry. But when I went home I asked the pastor if I could start a children's church. And we did. We started a children's church. My brother-in-law did it for 10 or 12 years and they're still doing it now. And I just got hungry for it because somebody else said, hey, you can do it.
Speaker 2:And he gave me some opportunity and he gave me some pointers and led me along.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, I'd love it if you could come see. At our church we started doing a bus ministry. I want to say last year or sometime in the last few years and the Lord has grown. I might actually send you a picture next Sunday, let you see. And like you said, it's very, very important To someone who don't think so. I agree with you. Something's wrong with them. They need to get prayed through.
Speaker 1:What are some goals that you have for missions, like goals you have for the Sikh team that y'all are trying to meet right now, or something like that?
Speaker 2:I don't know about goals. I have a couple desires.
Speaker 2:Right, I would like to go back to Haiti. I have a burden to go back there and help some of the children that have been impacted by the devastation that's taking place in their country, but also I'd like to minister to the young adults that we've made friends with that are working in the Lloyd's ministry there. That's something I feel really burdened to do. I would like to go back to Africa, and maybe we won't go to Lusaka, zambia, we'll go to Tanzania, and then we went last year to Taiwan. Great experience, great opportunity. It's interesting Less than 3% of Taiwan, uh, are Christians. We go there and, and, um, we're doing our Sikh team program there and there's 225 kids, another 50 adults, and they're they're pumping their arms J E, ss, jesus, you know, and they're saying yes, and they're quoting the scripture, and so that means, out of 200 kids you know, there's maybe six. Six of them are Christians. You know what I mean Right yeah.
Speaker 2:And so every one of those non-Christian people are hearing the gospel. Them kids are going to hear. Opportunity, have opportunity. We give them a coloring book every place we go. We give them a color crayon, we give them a piece of candy and we give them a balloon that you can tie into an animal. That's our trademark, you know. Right. But in hopes that they'll take that coloring book which is a gospel track home they'll let mom and dad read it to them and tell them about Jesus, and maybe their family will get saved.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I haven't been on a trip with y'all, but I have heard stories and I know y'all are truly changing lives in everywhere y'all go. So we're about to end this podcast. I want to give you a chance to say, to say some closing remarks of anything you'd like to say. If there's not a question that I've asked you that you would like to answer, if there's a story that you'd like to tell that you haven't told, say, say it, I am, I want to hear anything you got to say. So, just if you got anything that I haven't asked you that you'd like to say, go ahead.
Speaker 2:I would like to just believe that, as the Bible said, this is a generation of them that seek him. I would like to believe that there will be an army of young people that will rise up and not just recognize the need to get involved in children's ministry, but they would see it at work and that's kind of our desire. I've gone to Honduras open. There'll be young people that would see and, you know, brother Danny's brought a group of them and I think they've done it, and so we try to. I try to be this, uh, you know, visible example, and it doesn't have to be with big groups, you know, you can do it with smaller. You know this gospel narration works wherever you go, Right and uh, so I'm just, I love it. I love it that when we're doing it, it's sharing the gospel. I love it because people can see man, I can do this, and that kids can get saved and be changed and with that one last one.
Speaker 2:One last story. One last story. One last story, one last story. We went to Zambia in a place called Chiawa on the Zambezi River. David Livingston, floated down the Zambezi River and maybe about 40 miles from where we were at, gave his life for the gospel. But we were out there and we rode a bus vehicle out an hour and a half from this real primitive area, but really out in the primitive area, and the gentleman said God told me I'm going to reach this region for him. And we pulled up under a big banyan tree, big old crawly tree, you know and set up our puppet stage out in the open. And not only were little kids coming, but there was these three older ladies that they had to been in the 70s or 80s and they stood there, listened to the whole gospel story and then, when we were done, two of them accepted the Lord. And it's not just about kids, it's a clear gospel message that anybody can get a hold of.
Speaker 1:That's facts and with that I we're going to close this podcast. I would like to thank Brother Terry Miles for being able to give us time today. I've not been able to go on a trip with the C-team yet, but I am looking forward to finding a trip. Y'all go on and going with y'all. Thank you for being here and you have a blessed one Awesome.
Speaker 2:And you have a blessed one. Awesome, we're going to make it happen, brother.
Speaker 1:I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 2:You have a good one, all right, you too Edit me out. Good, all right. Yes sir, All right bye.
Speaker 1:In this podcast, brother Terry Miles got kind of emotional and whenever I asked him the question, what would you say to someone who doesn't believe kids ministry is important? And he got really choked up. I edit these podcasts, edit out the clips and stuff. I'll edit stuff out of them. Like, when I say clips, I mean like the slow parts, and his had a little bit of a slow stop. If you listen to it, it had more than that. He really was passionate about what he was saying.
Speaker 1:This does not just apply to kids' ministry or missions work. This applies to every type of ministry there is out there, and I've got three sets of scripture that I want to read just talking about ministry. Matthew 28, 18-20 says and Jesus came and spake unto them, saying All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever. I have commanded you and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen, this is the Great Commission. Okay, when it comes to ministry, it is vital. You know you don't have to do works to be saved. But the Bible says faith without works is dead. We have got to work for God, he commanded us. This is the great commission. This was a command from God, from Jesus. He said go ye into all the world and preach the gospel. He said to teach all nations. He wants us to go out and do ministry, whether that's from behind a pulpit, whether that's with a gospel track, whether that's in another country, whether that's behind a puppet stage. He wants us to do ministry.
Speaker 1:Romans 10, 13 to 15 says For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How, then, shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach? Except they be sent as it is written? How beautiful are the feet of them this is talking about.
Speaker 1:How are people going to be saved if people don't go out and preach to them? How can they hear unless we go out and witness, unless we go out and do ministry? It is that important. We are the feet of God. We go out. He uses us. It's not. We don't save people, we are just the messengers God uses. He sends us out to go do it. We've got to do it. How are they going to hear? How are they going to hear? There's cases to where God will do stuff. I've heard cases to where people they didn't necessarily have somebody come up to them when they got saved. God just did it. But that doesn't always happen.
Speaker 1:How do people hear about the gospel? That is from people like you and me, people who are called to do God's ministry, whether that's missions, whether that's preaching, whether that's singing, whether that's witnessing on the job site, whether that's going and doing, going passing out food, going, working at a homeless shelter, whatever it is. That is vital. It is very important. It's part of what we as Christians are supposed to do. And the last part of Romans 10, 15 said, as it is written, how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things. I don't know if I said that wrong. I apologize, but it is a blessing, it's a beautiful thing to see someone going out and working for God. He loves that. That's what he wants to see.
Speaker 1:1 Corinthians 15 58 says Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, for as much as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. You know it's not always going to be easy, it's not always going to be fun. We're going to have times. We don't want to do it, I have them times a lot, I won't lie to you. But it's not in vain. Your labor is not in vain. Even when it's hard, even when you'd rather do something else, even if you face persecution for it, even if you get mocked for it, it is not in vain. It's do it for God, do it to please Him. It is a blessing, it is a beautiful thing in God's eyes. He wants us to do missions. He wants us to do preaching. He wants us to do whatever type of ministry he calls us to do. So I encourage you whatever God calls you to do, do it with all your might. It is that important.
Speaker 1:Well, thank you for listening to this episode of the God's Little Own Podcast. I believe this is our 11th episode, if I got that right, and I know I keep doing this. But I got another confession to make. Again, this is one of the first ones we recorded. So if the audio is a little too quiet. That why I apologize for that. Uh, it happens I've got it max on my thing, as high as I can get the volume right now, but at the time I had my volume very low. I'm learning how it goes, how to do it as I go, but yeah, so please bear with me on that. But yeah, we hope you enjoyed this podcast.
Speaker 1:In our next podcast we are going to be doing something that we ain't necessarily done before. We've talked to people on this podcast about missions and stuff. We've done more than one person on this podcast, but on this one we're going to do a husband and wife together talking about their experiences with mission. We are going missions. We are going to be talking to brother preston and sister kim marino and we're going to be talking to Brother Preston and Sister Kim Marino and we're going to be talking about their experiences in mission, the trips they've been on and stuff. I actually got to go with them on a trip this year and we'll be talking about that. This is actually going to be a two-parter. We'll talk about that more in the second part, but please be listening to that. We hope you enjoy those two podcasts. I will let you know the second one is long. So if you've been wanting longer podcast, you've got it because it is long, but you'll hear more about it at that time.
Speaker 1:But yeah, thank you for listening to this episode of the God's Little One podcast and I got a little thing I'd like to ask To those who listen to this podcast. I really want to try and get this podcast out there more. So I got something I want to try and do If you guys could go and on our God's Little One Facebook page if you've seen this podcast from the God's Little One Facebook page or if you're just listening to it because you've seen it come up go to the God's Little One Facebook page. If you could share that podcast with your Facebook page so we can try and get this out more. We had somebody do that and it's really helpful. So if you can do that, if you don't want to, there's no pressure, I'm not, I'm just asking if you could. If you can't, no problem at all. But if you can do that, I really do. Thank you for it. We want to get this thing to grow and your support really is going to be a help. So thank you for anything you help us out with.
Speaker 1:If you hear singing in the background, the reason you hear that is because I'm at my church, as I always am whenever I'm recording these, and we have our youth camp this week. It starts tomorrow or it starts this Monday. So if you're watching this Monday, it starts today, tonight. So they're preparing, they're practicing to sing for that. So I apologize for that. But anyway, thank you for listening to this episode of the God's Little Own Podcast.
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