Precious Kiddos

Before you get too excited, this post is not about Byron and I having children... But, it is about some precious kiddos that were a regular part of our lives when we still lived in Colorado.

Back home, I was a teacher at Calvary Christian Academy (And if your kids don't go there, I am taking this opportunity to make a shameless plug for the Academy... It's a wonderful place! Pray about sending your kids there!), and I had the amazing opportunity to build meaningful relationships with my co-workers, students, and their parents. When I was preparing to leave America, the Academy was one of the hardest things for me to leave behind.

During the time when I worked at CCA, everyone I worked with became my sisters and brothers in Christ, and we all worked together with a common purpose - to see our children (our students) be raised up in the Lord.

Praise the Lord, even though I had to leave the Academy when I moved to Ukraine, the relationships that I had there have remained. One of the teachers I used to work with (Love you, Mrs. Hullett!) sent me a special gift a couple of months ago, which was the first thing Byron and I received here in Ternopil... It was an envelope full of drawings from her students with the words, "I will be praying for you."

Talk about heart melting!

I can't think of anything more precious than a bunch of kiddos telling you that they promise to pray for you. I've recently been thinking a lot about these kids, and how even though they're 5-6 years old, they understand the importance of prayer, and they are taking the initiative to pray for missionaries and for the Gospel to go out. Wow! Sometimes, even though I'm a missionary, I forget to pray for missionaries and for the Gospel to be spread around the world. And, I often forget to pray for the Lord to raise up new missionaries to go out and bring Jesus to people. But these kids, in their innocence and their childlike faith, they remember to pray for missionaries and pray for people to be saved.

These kids are a great reminder to me, that sometimes, as Christians, we just need the basics. The Bible, faith, and prayer. And these three things, that often seem so small to us adults, are actually the things that change the world.

Thanks, Mrs. Hullett's kindergarteners, for reminding me to have faith like you, and go back to the basics.

Blessings,

Emily