The Importance Of Children's Ministry

Children can surely come to know the Lord Jesus Christ as amply testified by the following well known believers...

Polycarp, the great church father, was nine when he was saved.

Matthew Henry was eleven.

Jonathan Edwards, America’s greatest theologian, was seven.

Hymn writer, Isaac Watts, was nine.

Evamgelist Henry Drummond, Moody’s friend, was nine.

E. Stanley Jones, the great Methodist missionary statesman, was moved to be a missionary when he was eight years old. He saw a picture of a big tiger standing beside a small Indian boy, and underneath was the caption, “Who will tell me about Jesus?” And Stanley Jones said, “I will.”

Corrie ten Boom asked Christ to be her Savior at age five.

W. A. Criswell, the famous Southern Baptist pastor, was saved when he was ten, but he felt God calling him into ministry even earlier. “I had been thinking about being a preacher for years, since I was six,” he recalled. “I knew I wasn’t converted yet, hadn’t been saved. But I knew God wanted me to be a preacher.

”Hymnist Philip Bliss was twelve years old when he made his public confession of Christ.

William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, was fifteen.

Dr. Harry Ironside was thirteen.

Count Nickolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, who gave rise to modern Protestant missions, was saved at age four.