 Welcome back after the break. Just before we went for our break, we were looking at the Biblical pattern for family, old, young and children to come together for a time of worship, praise, for prayer, repentance, hearing of the reading of Scripture and salvation. So we looked at worship and praise. We look at prayer. An example we see is in 2 Chronicles chapter 20, where King Jehoshaphat is faced with these three armies that are coming, marching against him. So he asks all of his people to fast and to assemble in the temple. And then this chapter is basically him praying out to God in front of all the people. And so he says in verses 12 and 13, he's telling God that, you know, God, we have no power to face this vast army that is attacking us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you. And then it says that all the men of Judah with their wives and children and the little ones stood there before the Lord. So we see that, you know, they're faced with this huge three armies coming to fight against them. Everyone is supposed to fast and pray, including that animals are fasting, everyone at this time. And, you know, the parents bring even the children and the little ones at this very important time. You know, they don't leave them out. You know, sometimes we think, you know, why should we take children to church? Why should we send them to children's church? Let them be at home, let them watch cartoon, let them just play. You know, but look at the importance of here, you know, the Israelite community bringing their children, the little ones standing before the Lord as one group of people. And for that children, even to learn, because, you know, here, you know, there was the Spirit of the Lord comes in Jezebel and he prophesies and he tells the king what to do. And, you know, when Jehoshaphat bleeds the army the next day, they go and they find, you know, all of their enemies fought within themselves and all lying there dead on the battlefield with a huge amount of, you know, things that they have left behind. So the big learning experience for children. So, you know, even at times we don't take children for fasting prayer, right? We think, why should children fast? Children can't fast, you know. Why should we take them for fasting prayer? They will just trouble us, they'll bother us, they won't understand. But look at the importance here of, you know, children and little ones even being there in the time of fasting prayer just to inquire of the Lord, you know, and it's good that even children can fast. There are other, there are children from other religious groups who fast and pray. I remember I went to, you know, part of the school outreach ministry of APC called Catalyst and I go to schools and teach scripture in schools. And once I was waiting for my class, I was sitting in the reception in one of the schools and there was a young boy, you know, maybe in grade four or five, sitting next to me and it was pretty early in the morning, just the first to second hour had gotten over. And so I knew that he was waiting for his parents to come and pick him up to go home. So I asked him what happened? He said, I'm not well. I asked him, you know, how, what, I mean, how are you unwell? He said, I'm having a back tummy ache. So I said, you didn't have breakfast this morning. He said, no. So I said, oh, maybe it's because you didn't have breakfast. You know, stomach is, you know, maybe there's gastric acidity and so, you know, you know, that's why you are having a stomach ache. And I said, why didn't you have breakfast? And he said he was fasting. And I immediately knew, you know, because it was this whole religious group who season of fasting and praying for them. And I was shocked because he was such a young boy and asked him, which grade are you in? And he said, I'm in grade four. I was like, wow, you know, grade four, this young age, you know, so zealous for his God. And it was so part of the ritual service, the religious group. I was just thinking, you know, when I was in grade four, did I fast and pray? You know, I was just thinking that. And I was just saying, man, these people really and the way they bring up their children and teach them the ways of the Lord. And they're so zealous for their faith and for that God. So it's okay if, you know, children part of the fasting prayer, it's good for them to learn because it's part of what we see that is in scripture. Children were also part of the repentance when they would repent before the Lord. Ezra Chapter 10 was one we read that Ezra was praying and confessing and weeping and throwing himself down before the house of God. And a large group of Israelites, it says men, women and children gathered around them and they too wept bitterly. And why did they weep? Because they knew that they had, you know, they were struck, they were convicted of their sin. They knew they had broken God's law, they had not kept his laws as covenant. And they needed to confess and repent along with the scribe, along with the priest Ezra. And they were so sorrowed over their sin of this as a covenantal community. Just as Ezra had done, they all were weeping and confessing and, you know, repenting before God. And so we see that even children were part of this process and they were learning what it means to repent, what it means not to break the heart of God, what it means to keep the covenants, the laws that God had given them. Children were also as part of the covenantal community of Israel, a part of the hearing of the reading of scripture. And we read this in Nehemiah Chapter 8 verse 2. Can somebody read that please? Nehemiah Chapter 8 verse 2. So Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly of men and women and all who could hear with understanding on the first day of the seventh month. Thank you, John Paul. So here it says in the first day of the seventh month Ezra the priest brought the law, you know, and he was reading it out to the men, women and all who were able to understand. Which means it included children as well children were able to understand. So, you know, it's important that we read scripture to children and also get them to read scripture because it's part of, you know, what we read in scripture, what we read in Bible. Also children, you know, are part of the salvation plan of God. And we read in scripture that there is no age limit set for the gift of salvation and even for the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Look at what it says in Acts Chapter 2 verse 38 and 39. Can somebody read that please? Acts 2, 38 and 39. Then Peter said to them repent and let everyone of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit for the promise is to you and to your children and to all who are far off as many as the Lord our God will call. Amen. So here we see that, you know, Peter saying, repent and be baptized. I mean, salvation is for everyone, forgiveness of sins is for everyone. So can we teach salvation, this message of salvation to children who are four, five, six, seven years old? Can we? Yes, no. Can we lead children who are in, you know, children who are five, six, seven, eight years to accept Jesus Christ? Can we do that? Yes. Yes, because yes, we can because here it says, you know, repent and be baptized everyone, the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And he says you will risk, can children also be baptized in the Holy Spirit? Yes. Yes, we can teach the baptism of the Holy Spirit for children. We can lead them into the baptism of the Holy Spirit. We can pray for them to be baptized in the Holy Spirit because here it says the promise is for you and for your children. The baptism of the Holy Spirit is not just for adults, but also for children. I remember, you know, after the pandemic, when we started baptism of the Holy Spirit, when we started gathering in church, it was in person services again. The first baptism of the Holy Spirit, I was amazed that we had, I think we had six people and out of that where four of them were children, you know. One of them, of course, was in engineering school, then his sister was in grade five or six and then we had two of them who were as small as in grade three and four who joined the baptism of the Holy Spirit. And in our church, we had the last Sunday, the previous Sunday, we had baptism of the Holy Spirit, and there was only one person and that was a child who was in eighth grade. So yes, children can be taught about the baptism of the Holy Spirit and they can be baptized in the Holy Spirit. So we see that, you know, the importance of ministering to children by looking at the biblical basis and the mandate or the order and the command that is given to us in scripture for us to teach children. And we see that how children were so an integral part of the covenantal community of Israel and the children are part of the covenantal community today that is the church. And they should also be included in various aspects of the church life and they should be trained and taught how to meaningfully participate in various aspects of church life. Okay. We look at how, you know, Jesus ministered to children and how ministering to children was a priority for Jesus. Matthew chapter 19 verse 14, it's on your screen. Can somebody read that please? Jesus said, let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as this. Amen. So here we see that, you know, parents bought their children to Jesus so that he can place his hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples rebuked them. Why do you think the disciples rebuked them? Why do you think the disciples rebuked them? They would have thought it might be disturbance for Jesus. Okay. They would have thought it would have been a disturbance for Jesus. Okay. Thank you. Yes, Jefina. Okay. So Jefina says they would have thought it's not important for them. It's not for them. Okay. Yes, the disciples didn't think that children should be ministered to. They didn't think they were a priority. They didn't think they would, they didn't sense they had such important pressing needs for them to be ministered to. But we see that Jesus did. You know, that's so wonderful. He made time to minister to the little children that, you know, the parents brought to him. The children are precious in God's sight. He loves them. He, you know, he wants children to be brought to him. And we read this in, we read also in Matthew chapter 18, verse 3. Can somebody read that please? It's on your screen. Unless you come to heaven, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Thank you. So Jesus says unless you become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. What did Jesus mean here? Like their kind of faith. Okay, their kind of faith, their kind of trust. Okay. Jesus actually values their nature and their character. The nature and character is just abandoning themselves to the care and the trust of their parents or to their teachers. So whatever the teacher and the parent tells them, they will just do exactly like that. Okay. If the parent says the sun is the moon for the child, the sun will be the moon. You can't change it for them. Okay. It's just basic trust then, you know, that they have the deep trust they have and the way they abandon themselves to the care of their parents and the trust of the parents. So Jesus says, you know, we need to have that kind of approach in life, which is an essential quality for all believers. So just like parents felt the need for their children to be ministered to by Jesus. So also today children need, you know, help. They need help in navigating into this world. They need actually more of Jesus and, you know, because they have a life ahead of them. Sometimes we think that, you know, children don't go through the kind of problems that challenges the difficulties that like adults do. And they are not in that place of position that they need to be ministered to like adults. What do you all think? Is that true? What do you all think? Children don't face that greater challenges, difficulties and problems like adults do. So, you know, they're still young. You don't agree with that. Okay. What do the others think? Any thoughts? Okay. Divya says not true. Zalutuli says no. You know, just like adults, you know, even children today face war, terrorism, you know, their parents divorce, their parents are going through a hard time. Children are also facing the consequences of their parents divorce, their parents fighting or the marital discord that is there among their parents. You know, just like adults are facing crime, rape, the pandemic, abuse, you know, pressure, peer pressure, social media, other anxieties, even children, you know, go through it. Maybe the magnitude of what they go through is not as greater like adults do, but they're also faced because they're living in the same world. They also face the same challenges like you and I do. So, yes, they need help to cope and to deal with situations and to face the situations that they're going through just like we adults do. And just like the pandemic had such a great impact on our lives, you know, some of us were able to deal with it and handle it because it's adults. But I noticed that the pandemic had a huge and a greater impact in the lives of children. You know, when I got back to schools after the pandemic, I just, I could not just imagine the way children were behaving. You know, the disorder that was there, the kind of, the kind of behavioral problems, the, you know, the lack of concentrating in class, the way they were treating each other. I was just thinking, what's happening? You know, am I really back in schools? What's happening to these children? And I realized that just two, three years of them confined to the home and, you know, and the pandemic has sought such a great impact on their minds and their lives that they were struggling actually to cope. And it was such an issue in the schools and all the teachers were finding it very challenging, very difficult. The parents were finding it challenging and difficult themselves and children also they could not actually express themselves, but it was just showing out in their behavior. So yes, you know, they just need so much more of Jesus. They need so much help to cope and to deal with situations that they're facing, just like we adults do. And when Jesus gave us this command to preach and teach the gospel, like he did in, in Mark chapter six was 15. I'll just put that on the screen. Where Jesus says, you know, go and tell all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. Okay, we see that whether it is Jesus teaching about preaching and teaching the gospel, baptizing people, whether it's about Holy Spirit baptism. We see that he does not specify any particular age group, but the command included people of all ages and all people groups. So look at what he says in Mark chapter 16 was 15. And he says, go and preach and teach the gospel. He says, he does not give any specific age but says, go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. You know, look at what the Great Commission, which we read in Matthew chapter 28 versus 19 and 20, where Jesus says, go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to observe all things that he has commanded them. Here also we see that there is no specific age group that is mentioned. Also, the promise of the Holy Spirit that we read in Acts chapter two, verses 20, 38 and 39. It says, you know, the promise is for you and for your children. So for adults and for children who can be baptized in the Holy Spirit. So here we see that it was Jesus's priority that children be ministered to, that he ministers to children that they may be ministered to, and also the gospel to be preached to children, children to be baptized and for them to receive the promise of the Holy Spirit. So, since Jesus, you know, or since children, sorry, since children were such a great high priority for Jesus, there should be also for the church as well today. When I say this, what I mean is that children's ministry in a church should be a priority means it should be well planned. It should be well executed. There should be a team of committed and trained teachers. There should be a relevant curriculum that is catering to the intellect, the needs, the taste, and the mindset of the present day children. You know, it's important that the curriculum is catering to the present day children. You know, we started writing our own children's church curriculum in 2013. And we've run over that, you know, some of the topics, you know, two times, I think, and realize that after the pandemic, we missed out on ministering to children for almost two plus years. And so we started back with the first topic. And I realized that, you know, we can't, you know, dish out the same thing that we wrote for children in 2013. We have to rewrite it keeping in mind the present day children, their mindsets, and, you know, what would really cater to their needs. So I started rewriting the curriculum. The first topic that we did was the doctrine of God. We call it as the nature of God. Now we're teaching about the Holy Spirit. So rewriting about the Holy Spirit. So it's important that, you know, we have a relevant curriculum that is catering to the intellect, the needs, the taste of present day children. Also make sure or ensure that we have a good worship team and activities and programs that are not just, you know, to kind of entertain children, but activities and programs that will enhance or build their relationship with God, and help them to grow in word and their faith life, just be built up, maybe nourished in the word and faith life, and help them to grow in the things of God. Okay. Any questions so far? Anyone has anything you'd like to say? Any doubts? Anything? Okay, Jefina has a question but her mic is not working so I can listen to her because she's an in-person student and I'll repeat the question to you all. Yes. So Jefina is saying if children want to be baptized in the Holy Spirit and they are born again, they have accepted Jesus, but how sure are you as a children's church minister or somebody who's ministering to them? How sure are you that they would really believe, they would really accept, they would really know? I think for me that question was not a rise because the very thing that they are taking that initiative to come. I can understand in my age, in my time, if my parents would tell me to do certain things, I would do it, but nowadays children are different. It's they who decide, it's they who think, they want to be baptized if they want to take baptism in the Holy Spirit. It's they who tell their parents and their parents also teach them about it and then of course before we have the baptism of the Holy Spirit, we teach them about the baptism of the Holy Spirit, tell them. Like when I had this child on Sunday, I spent a good 25 minutes just talking about Holy Spirit baptism and then praying with her. So she knows what the baptism of the Holy Spirit is and also we're teaching Holy Spirit to children. We also teach them about the gifts of the Holy Spirit. We also teach them about the baptism of the Holy Spirit. We also have baptism of the Holy Spirit in children's church at APC. So yeah, it's a good question. But you know, just by asking them couple of questions, you can ensure, you know, and just them being there, you know that, yeah, they've thought about it. Yes. Okay, Jeffina has one more question. Children's are standing with good because they are teaching, which becomes trending like nothing. And there was once a small child, his father passed away, he was a pastor. He started preaching in Gakan, Tamil Nadu and that became very controversial. But when I heard his message, the doctrines were good. But the way people get this, they say to me, it's an age where you have to focus to understand the world. It's not the time for you to do something. So what are your thoughts on it? I think it's like, he must be around with the folk of the day. And I also saw that three young people, like first standard, second standard, like six years, seven years, they are teaching, they are really teaching the world. Which makes my heart happy. But I don't know, what are the comments that people pass in right or wrong? Okay, so Jeffina is saying that nowadays children are very young age, grade one, grade two, preaching, teaching. And he says, she says back in her own place in Tamil Nadu, you know, passed away, his son is in grade four or five, and he preaches and teaches. So people are saying, hey, he shouldn't be doing that. It's his age for him to go to Sunday school now to learn. So what do you all think about it? Jeffina is asking our thoughts or inputs. What do you all think? Nivea, have your hand raised up, you want to say something? Yeah, actually, I had a question. But for this, I think it is acceptable if we see in the Bible, like in the Old Testament, like people who became kings at the age of eight and such depends upon how the child has been brought up also. Also, he might lack the experience and to understand or comprehend the issues of the people. So as a, I'm not sure as a past total in that, in those levels, if the child would be affected. Yeah, but of course, if God has ordained it for the child, I think age is not a barrier. Yes, thank you. Anyone else would like to share your thoughts? Yes, success. I really enjoy this topic about these children. We have an age group, we have a teenager, we have children, kids. I want to use my own daughter as an example. She's six years old. My daughter is six years old. And she loved reading Bible. So what we do, we encourage her to read more Bible. And one day, after when she read Bible, we are praying and she started speaking in tongues, in Holy Spirit. And I told my wife, I said, God has visited our daughter. If we can encourage them by studying the Word of God, we are to plant a seed. God is to make the seed to spray in the life of the children. Because they are children, they only know little. But if we can plant it for them, they can spray. We are talking about Holy Spirit. God himself is the one who will do the major work. My wife is a children's teacher in our church. Yes, by special grace of God, I'm the GO. I told her, don't sit in the church. Make sure, because the children are more important to me, their life is more important to me than adults. So go be the leader of the children's church and empath them in the Word of God. So when you see the children reading Bible, studying Bible, they will ask you questions that you will ask. Who taught these children on these questions? So if we can be able to push a model on the Word of God to them, from then, you see Holy Spirit will take over and will be in charge. That's my own thoughts. Thank you. Thank you, success. Coming back to Jeffina's question. Yes, when we can allow children to share, it's a good thing that we inculcate that even when we have family times, family prayer, for them to share what they have learned from the Word of God. And I'm sure it will be like maybe understanding, a limited understanding of what they know of the Word of God and it will not be as profound and deep as an adult would expound the same scripture verse, which will be on a greater level. But of course, they can share things which can minister to us, which we can learn. I have learned from children when the questions that they've asked, things that they have said, yes, so we can allow them, but we also need to nurture and build and train them up. So, you know, after they have spoken, like you hear children and so this church, this specific boy who is, you know, preaching like whose father's pastor was a pastor. Yes, you know, you can give him inputs. Hey, you know, you spoke on faith. Don't you think about what do you think about these aspects of faith? You can build them up and teach him. So he needs to be tutored and trained and, you know, built up in the faith and in the Word of God. Not just let him go, you know, but continue to teach him and train him and also bring him to a place where he needs to know that he needs to learn more things that are more deeper truths on those specific topics that he can learn. Yes, but shunning him away and saying, hey, you can't speak is, you don't have anything to say can, you know, totally, you know, disappoint the child and the child may not want to continue to minister or even preach and teach later on in life. But give them the room but also know how to nurture and train them in the right way. Yes. That helped. Sepina. John Paul says out of curiosity was the age of the youngest child you have been seen being baptized in the Holy Spirit. I think this child that came after the pandemic was maybe made three. I can, you can, I can ask the parent and, you know, I can let you know, John Paul, but I think she was in grade three, very small. Yes, grade three or grade four. Yeah. But I can confirm that. Yes. Yes, Divya. Thank you, ma'am. My question is regarding the secular worldviews that the kids encounter, especially in there as they grow up in the schools and other institutions where they are taught about principle like about the concepts that are not biblical, like evolution or how the, how like principles of the society and things of that sort. Yes, lifestyles and all that they're seeing now. Yeah, correct. So how like as parents or as teachers, we can help the children to not only to grow in, you know, the Christian biblical worldviews and plus how should we like teach them how to defend the faith, like how to that apologetics kind of teaching. So what are your thoughts on that? Good question. Basically, when you don't wait for the child to come to you and, you know, maybe say it or even if they come with those questions. Basically, when you see this happening, you know, on TV, the news or a program, you can ask them what are their thoughts on it. You know, what do you think? And they can, they will share their thoughts and then you can say what do you think? If, if, if Jesus, I mean Jesus is the thing to our conversation, what do you think would Jesus say regarding this? So what do you think he has told us about this in the Bible? So it's like listening to, they will be listening to two viewpoints. And then you can actually tell them which you think is, is the, is the better of the two. I mean, what the world, so basically debate discuss with them. So what we see in, in, in scripture is in the Old Testament, you know, when Moses goes to Pharaoh to the court, he God gives him some miracles to do, right? Put out your staff and there'll be snakes and, you know, did God not know that when Moses is going to go and do this, perform this, that the magicians are also going to do it? God would have known, right? God would have known. But he still goes ahead and tells him, hey, go and do this before Pharaoh. And what does Pharaoh do? He just sits down there and says, you know, I, I don't think this is any great miracle you're doing. He just claps his hand and tells his, you know, magicians to come and they do the same thing and he marks Moses and his God. And what happens? Moses's snake swallows up all their snakes. Okay. And they're able to do the first two miracles, but later on they're not able to do it. And the magician says, hey, this is the finger of God. This is the hand of God. So, you know, children, we think, you know, they don't know the truth. They're not able to recognize the truth. But they, they are able to, okay, because, you know, we are praying for them. They have the Spirit of God in them. And the Spirit of God, even their conscience, like we read in Romans, we learned in Romans chapter one. You know, we can't say that is, people cannot deny the existence of God because they have the inbuilt, the inbuilt indicator is their conscience. And God has, you know, revealed to him about himself in, in nature, you know, nature reveals the attributes of the invisible attributes of God. We learned that in Romans chapter one. So they, the inbuilt conscience, the Holy Spirit that is speaking to them and telling them, hey, this is right. So it's important to discuss with them and tell them, and not just like to rest the views over them, but actually get them to think. And then, you know, children will come to a place where they'll say, yeah, this is what is right. This is what we should be doing. Like, you know, we have had children, when I minister to them in children's church, they come and say, auntie, can we do this? And then I just look at them and smile and they say, we know it's not the right thing, but we just thought we'll ask you, but we know that you will say no. And so they already know because, you know, hey, this is not what we should be doing now. This is not the right thing. But, you know, they know what is right and wrong, but they're just trying to, you know, they ask and they want to have, you know, do have their way sometimes. So all you do is just smile at them and then they say, okay, auntie, we'll just go and do this. They'll go ahead and do the right thing. So important to teach them the word of God, what the word of God talks about this, but not over-emphasizing what the world is saying. But when you hear things like this about what the world is saying, already start teaching them what the word of God is saying. So when they know what the word of God is saying, they're going to be able to, you know, connect that when they come across the worldviews and they're able to stand by the word of God because that is what they have heard. That is what is the truth. And that is what they know is right. That is why Paul, when he is, we learn as we look at 1 Timothy and study 1 Timothy and 2 Timothy, you know, Paul is saying, you know, don't waste time. Don't waste time arguing. Don't waste time talking about all of these false doctrines, false teachers. You know, what is the wrong teachings? Because, you know, it's basically all these arguments are going to lead to nowhere, but just teach the truth, teach the doctrine, teach the word of God. So all we do is teach them the word of God. And when we know that our children are going to encounter these worldviews, already start teaching them what the word of God is saying. So when they encounter those worldviews, they know what the truth is and they can, you know, they will stand by the truth. Thank you ma'am. That's really helpful. Thank you so much. Thank you. Any more questions? Okay. If not, we'll move on. See that children are the greatest mission field. Okay. You know, DL Moody, DL Moody was a great evangelist. He comes back one day from a tent revival meeting. And all of them are very curious to know, you know, how many people were saved during his tent revival meeting. So he told them two and a half people were saved. He tells them two and a half people were saved. So whoever was talking to him replied, Oh, do you mean two adults and one child? So two adults and a half was a child? So DL Moody responded, No, two children and one adult. And so he tells this to the person who asked this question. He says, When you save a child, you save a life, a whole life. So for him, the two people were children who have the whole life. You know, so when you save a child, you know, you have the child as a whole life to live, to impact, to influence others for the kingdom of God. So, you know, children are the greatest mission field. And so ministering the children, you know, teaching them is you are in the right place where you are in the right mission field where you are impacting their lives. The next one is that children, you know, okay, let me just present this slide of all the people who have made a decision for Christ 85% did so by the age of 18. Okay. Children need a firm foundation. You know, we read in Proverbs chapter 22 was six direct a child in the way that he needs to go. And when he's older, he will not leave or depart from it. So the time we spend with children at from a very young age impacts the rest of their lives, because the things that are instilled in them as children, you know, it won't be forgotten even when they grow older. Okay, so children's ministry basically our time with children or teaching children allows us to pour core values into their lives while they're still growing up, so that when they grow older, you know, they will know these values, they will live by these values, even if they kind of go away, you know, these values will be there because the Holy Spirit will remind them will bring them back. And as we teach them, you know, a scripture Bible verses to memorize, you know, they will be able to recall those later times in times of difficulty because the Holy Spirit will bring that back to memory. And most of the scripture that I have learned I did so when I was a child, because we I come from a church where children's ministry was given good priority, a good focus and I just impacted so I was so impacted as a child by the Children's Ministry Sunday School and all the teachers are great. It's such a great impact and the amount of scripture they made us to study and learn and, you know, I still remember that I can just narrate scripture passages, Psalms, the books of the Bible, I can just rattle it off, you know, all that because at that very young age, we just learned it. And yes, it, you know, when scripture is thought, nowadays we find it difficult my age, it's a little challenging to and difficult to remember verses that I learned, even though I still keep learning few scripture passages. But the ones that I learned as a child would even in my sleep I can just narrate it because it just so back of my mind. So good time for us to teach children scripture passages. Like, you know, the, the Matuma Church, the Matuma Church is basically comprises of the group, people group, Malayalis, you know, they have this time when, you know, they just get their children to learn scripture passages, and you know, children narrate Psalm 119, word perfect, word perfect. There's not a word they miss, and they have a competition. And it's amazing the way they learn scripture and they can just narrate passages of scripture like that. Word perfect, it just blows my mind and they just do such a wonderful job in teaching scripture to children and for them to narrate and to memorize scripture. Wonderful job done by the Matuma Church. So good to get our children to memorize as much scripture as possible because time is also running out when people no longer have bibles in their hand. And you know, the truth of scripture that they memorize will come back to memory. Okay. There's a season in a person's life when they're most open to learning what it means to trust God. And the season, they say is somewhere between the age of four to 14 years, you know, it's called the 414 window. I don't know if you've heard about the 414 window. It's a it's a time on age when people or children are more moldable than they can ever be in their lifetime. You know, so during the season of life is when children are forming their understanding of the world of relationships of love of God. So it's a season when children are easily influenced can be easily moldable, and we should intentionally ensure that they get the right impression and they learn the truth. Because what is rooted in the heart of a child, you know, is almost impossible to approve in the life of an adult. So, you know, when God says, you know, for everything that is a season and a time for every matter under heaven, I think he really did mean everything, you know. You know, hence this a season when a child is between four to 14 years old is when we need to focus our efforts on helping them to place their faith in their trust in Jesus and to have a personal relationship with them. So this four to 14 years as a very important age and many people call this as a 414 window. And what we do during this window may be the most important thing that a church does. So just imagine, you know, how many adult problems would be solved if every child in the primary section, you know, they left children's church with this deep assurance in their heart that they have a heavenly father who loves them, you know, and the same child who is in the primary section who's grown up with this deep assurance that they have a heavenly father who loves them, they will go into adulthood with the same thing that, hey, my heavenly father loves me, you know. And how many adult problems can be solved with this truth is so ingrained and they live by this truth, by this identity. What if every child in the junior level, you know, left knowing that they have a place, sorry, they left knowing the junior level that, you know, knowing that they can place their trust in Jesus in every area of their lives. And the same child grows up to be an adult and knows that has this deep assurance that, you know, they can trust Jesus in every area of their life. So how many adult problems would be solved? You know, what if every high school student left knowing their place in God's story, you know, and having made a lifetime commitment to serving Christ. Or, you know, they left high school knowing that they are part of God's wonderful plan, God's purpose and their plan for their life is great. And he has a plan and a story and in the history of God that they are of priority, they are of importance and, you know, they leave high school with making a lifetime commitment to serving Christ. And when they grow up into adults, you know, imagine the kind of impact they will live and imagine the kind of, you know, strength they would have to face the challenges even as an adult. So what if everything we did for children focused, you know, around them just building them up in their faith and winning them to Christ. We will have a church, you know, in the coming years that are so strong, so strongly built in the faith and so strong in the word of God and in their relationship and their trust with God. Okay. So we'll stop here. We'll continue next class. Anyone has any questions before we end class? Anything you want to say? Okay. No, thank you for joining class.