Pictures of starving children in Africa, reports of families fleeing war-torn countries, the aids epidemic…all showing up on the TV news programs around dinner time and sympathetic children are shedding tears and refusing to eat because they are feeling the heartbeat of Jesus.Perhaps a bit too dramatic but we have actually had parents ask us about this. “What do we do…?”

Children identify with those like themselves around the word. The names sound different and the places they live foreign but the needs are the same. We teach children to agree with Jesus in prayer for those like themselves – for all the 5 year old for example, or for all the “Susie’s” and “Johnny’s”, all the children needing a bed to sleep in or a family to love them. And, of course, for the children of the world to KNOW JESUS!

This article first appeared in the magazine Pray Kids! by Nav Press.

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