Answered Prayer | Narrowed Our Approach

Bringing God’s Word to Children is Our Only Priority

The Gospel Light Worldwide ministry is and has always been focused exclusively on bringing God’s Word to children around the world. In 2007, we felt called to pray for God’s direction in redefining our ministry focal point.

Our prayer brought us “One Million Children”, a new vision to help One Million Children around the world enter and grow in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

The Lord not only gave us a word picture to concentrate ministry resources and efforts, He gave us a vision to share with the world. Just the idea of One Million Children made our hearts leap. Does it do the same for you?

Once given direction, we set our sights on One Million Children. We knew our new vision would reshape every aspect of our ministry. Our team evaluated and ultimately redirected each step of our process to meet the desired outcomes. We narrowed our efforts and redirected resources and seek to create a truly great children’s ministry for God’s glory.

Our approach to international children’s ministry:

1. Respond Only to Defined Church Need – We only go to the churches in regions of the world that invite us with a specific children’s ministry need and desire to create a sustainable, long term solution.
2. Partner with Local Churches and Other International Ministries – We seek out resident Christians and other international ministries already on-field with an expressed desire to create children’s Bible materials that respect and celebrate the local linguistic and cultural heritage.
3. Select Appropriate Curriculum – With our local partners, we choose from more than seven decades of age-appropriate children’s Bible lessons proven effective at grounding children in the Faith.
4. Culturally Relevant Translation – Once the proper curriculum is selected, lessons cannot simply be translated word for word. There are many cultural differences that must be respected and integrated in order for the materials to be understood and truly appreciated.
5. Transmittable Teacher Training – Our teaching model is built into every lesson plan and Teacher’s Guidebook. In other words, once a teacher sees another teach they will be able to teach the next lesson from their guidebook without direction.
6. Transfer of Power – Our ultimate desire is to transition the publishing rights and responsibilities to the local church or other sustainable ministry organization as soon as possible.

Today, we are focused like never before. Although many other ministry opportunities may come to us, we choose to refer them to ministries that specialize in the areas of need.