Highland Baptist Church
Friday, September 10, 2010
Helping People Follow Jesus

“… to tell the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and His might, and the wonders He has done.”  Psalm 78:4

Our earnest desire and great joy is to come alongside parents to establish the next generation entrusted to us in the wondrous truths of God’s Word. A child’s greatest need is to know and treasure the infinite value of God Almighty.

Our aim, since we believe the Bible is a book foremost about God and not man, is to impart God-centered truths cultivating the spiritual soil of a child’s heart through acquainting them with both the acts and the words of God as He’s revealed Himself in the pages of Scripture. As they discover the greatness of God and His plan, they have a basis to respond to Him.

Our passion and purpose through each Word-based ministry is that children may develop a spiritual desire to cherish the worth of God as the One who saves and satisfies the heart through His glorious work through Jesus Christ.  “…that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus” (2 Tim. 3:15). We tremble with the reality of eternity in our view, and we trust the Holy Spirit to lead the children to the narrow way that leads to eternal life through genuine faith and putting their confidence in Jesus.

Our goal is for the generation under our tutorage to have a vision of God, who He is, and who we are in relation to Him. As they know His Word He’s entrusted to us, our prayer is we will be found faithful in our instruction , and the next generation will live their lives with a God-centered world view as well as a faith that will hold them when the days of testing come their way. They will persevere for they will love the Lord God with all their hearts, and He will remain central to their lives.

With all of this in mind, we desire to help parents raise a Bible-saturated generation. For this reason, our various ministries are strongly focused on God’s Word from Sunday School to AWANA  to Fighter Verse Family Memorization to Vacation Bible School. Children are indeed a gift of the Lord and are like arrows in the hand of a warrior. May God use us to aim them to Him for Jesus invites, “Let the little children come to Me.”