When Your Kids Don't Know

"We don't know!"

That's what a Rainbow exclaimed Wednesday night during the Mpact Award Ceremony when asked what their club colors are.

It provided a great laugh and little bit of embarrassment for the parent and his teacher. It reminds me of a truth about working with kids that you know if you've been working with them for longer than 6 months.

They'll say just about anything and tell you they remember nothing. It's a problem for teachers all around that brings frustration and sometimes laughter, but that doesn't mean we should just give up. On the contrary we should keep working because the message does get through...eventually.

The truth is, as we all found out shortly after the Rainbow's proclamation, is that the kids did know their colors and what they mean.

If you're working in children's ministry, you're training kids to have a life-long faith. Sometimes we think it's going to be this big meaningful thing we've planned that's going to make the biggest impact, which it can. Most of the time it's the little things we say and do that make the lessons stick forever and you don't even know it.

That's ok.

That's why we do this every week. You never know when you're going to make a difference in a kid's life, but you are as long as you show up and show a kid God's love.