Persecution Blog

VOM’s Kids of Courage VBS Curriculum

VOM’s Kids of Courage resources help parents and educators teach children ages 5 to 13 about persecuted Christians around the world. The resources also provide opportunities for the children to serve and pray for suffering believers. 

After some minor editing changes, the Kids of Courage VBS curriculum is again available.

The curriculum includes true stories of children from 5 countries: Egypt, China, North Korea, India, and Nigeria. 

Kids learn that Kids of Courage: Trust God, Get Prepared (by learning about how Christians in other countries and in the Bible faced difficulties), Forgive Others, Witness Boldly, and Remember Persecuted Christians. They learn that they, too, can be Kids of Courage.

Learning about persecution does not have to include graphic details. Kids can understand from a young age that we can trust God when we are afraid or having problems, and that we can praise Him even in adverse circumstances. Kids can be introduced to the concept that some people have false ideas, and that non-Christians may get angry with people who tell the truth and do the right thing. 

Children can discover that persecuted Christians may experience joy and victory in times of struggle, and they can learn about obedience to God and perseverance in tough situations. They can also learn about forgiving and praying for enemies.

The VBS is being used in small and large churches, and is quite affordable for all groups. Some children’s workers are finding that the curriculum includes so much information, they can also use it in Sunday school and other settings after their VBS is over. Several groups have said they plan to use it for two years. 

The curriculum includes opportunities to share and explain the gospel to children who have not yet trusted in Christ as their Savior. Directors who have used the curriculum report that children have come to Christ during the VBS.

Each kit includes:

• 5 teachers’ guides, one for each country

• Director’s guide

• Skits and plays book

• Games, snacks, and activities book

• Craft and classroom activities book

• Photo CD; Music CD

• Resource and project guide

• VOM prayer map

www.kidsofcouragevbs.com has more information, samples of the curriculum, and feedback from VBS directors. www.kidsofcourage.com provides additional resources, including free downloads of material similar to what is in the VBS.

Where Are They Now: Suleiman Abdulai

VOM field staff recently checked in on Nigerian evangelist Suleiman Abdulai, who was featured in our November 2012 newsletter.

Suleiman has a powerful testimony of growing up as a Muslim and being known in his community as one who humiliated Christians in public debates. But when he attended a church service at the invitation of a friend, Suleiman was surprised to hear the pastor preaching directly to him, saying “things that I never told anyone before,” he said.

He gave his life to Christ, to the deep frustration of his family. They packed him off to Islam’s holiest site in Mecca, hoping to bring him back to Islam. On observing Islam’s most important rituals, “I knew then that Islam is not of God,” he said. When he returned to Nigeria, his entire family gathered around Suleiman as his father insisted, “Deny this Christ or be killed.”

Confident that Jesus was standing beside him, Suleiman told his family, “I’m not going to deny who I serve. I am ready to die, because I know he is here.”

But his family didn’t give up. They sent hired killers with automatic weapons to Suleiman’s rented room. Suleiman happened to be out that day. After failing to find and kill him, Suleiman’s parents disowned him and cut off all support.

Suleiman is now an evangelist and public speaker who lectures on Islam. He calls Muslims to Christ and exhorts Christians to reach out in love to the Muslims they know. When he is not busy with speaking engagements, Suliman spends his time ministering to Christian converts from Islam or others interested in Christianity. He simply offers them a Bible to read and then is available to discuss it with them.

He recently started a small business to help provide support for his family. He travels to outlying villages to buy grain, and then transports it to larger towns to sell it.

Suleiman’s work as a minister is not sponsored by a particular organization or church and he is entirely dependent on donations to support his work. “I move as the Lord provides,” he told our staff. “The feeding and sustenance of our family is as the Lord provides, and as his Word proclaims, the Lord himself has been our sufficiency.”

Suleiman often tells his testimony when he speaks in large, public venues. Afterwards, he often receives threats. Recently, someone sent him a text message that read, “You are a disgrace to Islam, an infidel. We will soon get you and end your life.”

But he’s seen God protect him time and time again. He told a VOM worker, “We will not be afraid. We will still preach the gospel to them.” He asked for prayer for his preservation, but noted, “For me, to die is gain.”

 

Hussein: Locked in Level 11

After 10 days in solitary confinement, Hussein was taken back to the main prison. The paperwork they gave him said he was a “blasphemer of the Holies,” an apostate. One of the guards, seeing the charge, told Hussein, “Only God can help you in here.”

“Yes,” Hussein replied. “He is helping me.”

Hussein was assigned to Level 11, and when he got there he discovered that Level 11 was death row. The guard at the gate to this section argued with the guard who delivered Hussein: “If you bring him here, they will kill him!” But orders were orders. The gate was opened, and Hussein went in with 250 death row inmates. Then the gate closed, and the guard stayed outside. Inside Level 11, the prisoners were in charge and the prison gang made all the decisions.

“I started praying,” Hussein said. “I didn’t know what to do, but I knew that God was going to do something for me.” On his first night, Hussein was told by the gang leader to meet them at midnight in the bathroom. Hussein was frightened of what they would do to him. But instead of threatening him or being violent, they asked for his help.

“Please tell what is going on here [in the prison] to your friends in America,” they said. Hussein wasn’t sure what they meant; he didn’t have friends in America. But he promised to do what he could to help them. The gang leaders showed him to a top bunk bed. Other prisoners had been there five years and were still sleeping on the floor, while Hussein slept on the top bunk his first night on death row.

“I didn’t know how to say thank you to God, lying there on top of that bed,” he said. From his first night on death row, he was accepted as one of the top eight people in the gang. He was given fresh fruit and vegetables, and he had a private shower. He could use the phone every day, and finally he called his family to tell them what had happened. “It was like a hotel to me,” Hussein says. After two days the guard came and offered him a transfer to a “safer” part of the prison. “No way!” Hussein told him. “I’m not moving.”

He was on death row for eight days. Then his family brought the deed to his house to use as collateral, and he was released on bail. Later, at his court hearing, the judge pointed out some mistakes on Hussein’s appeal document. But even in court, God was at work. The judge personally corrected the mistakes and told Hussein where he needed to go to file the documents. Later, he gave Hussein his cellphone number and offered to personally handle his case file. Hussein didn’t even have to come back to court!

Hussein still can’t believe how amazingly God has stepped into his life at so many points. “If I ever die and I am before Christ,” he said, “I will never have any excuses that He was never with me. Look how many doors He opened for me! This is why I want to serve, because I know Christ is with me. I learned that it is not what I would want in a situation but what He wants, because that is so much better.”

A VOM worker asked Hussein how he is preparing himself for the next time he’s called on to suffer for Christ’s sake.

“I think one of two things will happen,” he said calmly. “They will either kill me or there will be another miraculous event like this.”

Then he looked right at our worker, his dark eyes glowing.

“Which one is bad?”

Hussein’s story was featured in a past issue of VOM’s free monthly newsletter. You can sign up to receive VOM’s newsletter here. You can also read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 of Hussein's story. You can also give online to support VOM's work in the Muslim World.

Hussein: Jesus Whispered in My Ear

Still blindfolded, Hussein was taken inside a building; he couldn’t tell if it was a house or a business. He was led down four steps just inside the door, and then after 15 feet there were more stairs. He was going to a basement. He heard men speaking Kurdish, a language he didn’t know. Looking down past the edge of his blindfold, he could see that the floor was made of tiles. Hussein was taken to the manager of solitary confinement; he was placed in a cell and the blindfold and handcuffs were finally removed. They gave him a gray jumpsuit to put on and took his clothes. The cell was a 10’ by 6’ room, with no bed or toilet or sink. On one wall were two floodlights, and one of them was always on.

“It wasn’t just the light that was bothering me,” Hussein recalls. “My thoughts were bothering me; a lot of things came into my mind.” He worried what the Christian girls he’d been arrested with were telling police. He worried that other church leaders would be compromised. He wished he could warn them. He put on the blindfold to block the light and try to sleep, but his thoughts were in turmoil.

“Then a big event happened. I had been a believer, but I had never felt Christ in this way ever in my walk. To hear God, like you hear water or anything else; I heard God! I felt like Jesus put everything aside, the whole world aside, to come to me and whisper in my ear. I heard God say to me, ‘Let’s pray together.’ I don’t remember exactly what He said, but He told me how to pray and what to pray for.

“I started to pray, and I got the peace that is beyond understanding. I felt so close to God at that moment. Jesus said to me, ‘There is no need for you to say anything because I am going to tell you what to say. Why are you afraid? At the end you are going to die, right? So why don’t you just serve? Don’t you have faith that when you close your eyes in this world you will open them up to me? And when you open your eyes you will be in my arms. Didn’t you get the teaching that whoever has more persecution gets a bigger crown? So why are you saying any of this?’

“I think that if this situation never happened to me I would probably never of heard the voice of God as clear as I did at that moment. I could feel the presence of God. The fear was gone. I was worried about nothing. Because Jesus said, ‘Don’t worry. Let Me do everything; give Me the responsibilities. Just think when you come out how much glory you are going to give Me and how many people might come to Me because of this.”

The next several days Hussein was interrogated. Each time, he was taken to a small room where gray carpet covered both the floor and walls. The carpet on the walls was stained with ink from hundreds of fingerprinted prisoners wiping their fingers on the wall. He was left in the interrogation room for long periods. He could hear interrogations in the neighboring rooms. Yet even in the interrogation room, the peace that Christ had given him remained.

Different officers interrogated him. One had a baby face and curly hair. Another seemed very angry. Hussein was handed paper and a red pen and was told to write down personal information about himself. They brought some of the literature from the apartment and asked Hussein about it. Hussein answered honestly that the literature was not his, and that he had been visiting the city and meeting with friends.

After three days, he was taken to court. “Why do you have a problem with mosques and Imams?” the judge asked. “Why do you want to destroy Islam?” Hussein told the judge that the books he held—taken from the apartment—were not his. The judge never asked Hussein whether he believed in Jesus or whether he was a Christian.

Hussein was taken back to the main prison, fingerprinted and checked in. But instead of being taken to a cell, he was again taken back to the solitary confinement prison run by the secret police. If any questions were asked, the paperwork would show that he’d been in the main prison the whole time. They took Hussein back to a cell, and the interrogations continued. At night they poured water onto the floor of his cell to make it wet and cold and hard to sleep. But Hussein wasn’t uncomfortable: “This solitary confinement I was starting to like because I was really praying and being alone with God,” he said.

He was there for 10 days, interrogated every morning and repeatedly asked the same questions. When they asked about Bibles, Hussein thought they had found the 500 in the apartment. But he was very careful of his answers, and he later discovered that the Bibles had not been found. The Bibles they asked about were the two from his backpack.

Hussein’s story was featured in a past issue of VOM’s free monthly newsletter. You can sign up to receive VOM’s newsletter here. Visit PersecutionBlog tomorrow to read how God had His hand on Hussein even when he was sent to death row. Click here to read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.

Hussein: 500 Invisible New Testaments

Hussein and his ministry partner had gathered in an apartment belonging to a Christian in a Kurdish area of Iran. The man who lived in the apartment had also invited 10 young Kurdish, Muslim women to come hear about Jesus. The previous week, the believers had received a secret shipment of 500 New Testaments, which were stacked in three large boxes in one of the apartment’s bedrooms.

Shortly after the meeting started, eight members of the Ettelaat, Iranian secret police, rushed into the apartment. The angry men brought the meeting to a halt. One of them slapped Hussein before they took him to one of the bedrooms and handcuffed him. Some of them began to photograph each person at the meeting, while others began to tear the apartment apart, throwing everything—including Christian books and literature—into the middle of the floor in the large front room. They even pulled the pictures off the walls.

But miraculously, they never spotted the 500 New Testaments. “I was sure they would find them,” Hussein said, “because they even picked up a needle off of the floor.”

Hussein and three of the women were put in a white Volkswagen van. The van did not have official government license plates, and the Ettalaat officers had not shown any identification or warrants for the search or arrest. But they told Hussein he was in big trouble.

The police kept asking him about the girls in the apartment. What was he doing in the apartment with so many girls? And why was he, a Persian man, involved with Kurdish women? Hussein tried to remain calm and quiet.

They pulled up to a large gate, and when it opened they pulled inside. Hussein was blindfolded, and his ankles were chained together. The women were taken away; he didn’t know where, and he wondered what they would tell the officers and how he could make his story match theirs.

Three men marched him out of the van. “This is just the beginning of what we are going to do to you,” one of them said angrily. “This is just the welcome parade.” The men then put him in another vehicle. He heard the gate open again and they started moving. He didn’t know where they were taking him. Every time he moved in the car, one of the officers hit him and told him to be still.

“I knew if I made one mistake this church was going to get disintegrated,” Hussein said. “If I wasn’t John, I didn’t want to be Judas.” Hussein was silently praying, “Give me wisdom, God, for what to say and how to act.”

Hussein’s story was featured in a past issue of VOM’s free monthly newsletter. You can sign up to receive VOM’s newsletter here. Visit PersecutionBlog tomorrow to read how God protected Hussein in solitary confinement and interrogation. You can also read Part 1 and Part 2 of Hussein's story.

Hussein: “Unnecessarily Happy”

Iranian Christian Hussein stood in amazement at how far God had brought him. Just a few years earlier, he had been a drug addict, a patron of prostitutes and a criminal. Yet the drugs and women and ill-gotten money brought no joy to his life; he felt only misery and desperation. He became so depressed that he planned to end his life. He came up with a plan to make his death painless: he would get high on ecstasy and then jump off a tall building. He found an appropriate building, and he even found a way to get to the roof. All he needed now was the drugs; he was trying to locate them when an old army buddy came to town and asked Hussein to coffee.

When his friend told him that he’d “found something new,” Hussein perked up, thinking his friend had discovered a new drug. But his friend had discovered Jesus. He sent Hussein a New Testament, then brought other Christians to visit him. They met in a local park on a bright sunny day. One of the other Christians who had also considered suicide asked Hussein if he wanted to give all the pain in his life to Jesus. Hussein received Christ’s forgiveness that day.

“I still didn’t understand what was happening to me, but I felt something was different and I knew my life was going to start to change. Christ just said he wanted me to be His son; this made me excited. This is what attracted me. This was very different from Islam. Immediately I felt light and I was unnecessarily happy for no reason.”

Just a few years after choosing to follow Christ, Hussein was in full-time ministry. God had called him into fellowship with Christ, and then—literally out of the water—raised him up to a place of leadership and ministry. And God empowered him and blessed his ministry with fruit.

“The favor of the Lord was with me,” Hussein remembers. “Anyone I witnessed to, they would come to Christ. I felt that God had anointed me to witness. I would give my testimony, and I would tell them what Christ did for me. It was really God that was speaking through me.”

But ministry in Iran isn’t free, and it wasn’t long before Hussein would have to pay a price. But even in that, Christ’s hand was clearly at work.

Hussein’s story was featured in a past issue of VOM’s free monthly newsletter. You can sign up to receive VOM’s newsletter here. Visit PersecutionBlog on Monday to read how God protected Hussein, even as he went through intense persecution. You can also read Part One of Hussein's story.

Hussein: Saved by a Miracle

“I could tell that I am touching death now. Then I realized, ‘I am going to die.’”

“Hussein’s” dark brown eyes are wide as he remembers his terror. He was on a church retreat to the sea. “I swim so well that when I go to the shower I drown,” Hussein says now, chuckling. But the waves were small and he went in just a little bit. Then a little bit farther. And now he was out too far, sinking in the waves, touching death. Hussein had sensed a call to ministry, but he hadn’t answered. He knew that answering a call to ministry in Iran would be dangerous and costly, and he liked his nice life, his good job, his house and his car too much to give them up. Now his comfortable life was about to sink into the sea.

“I started praying, ‘Christ, give me one more chance. I never ministered for You. I will minister for You if You do this. Just give me one more chance!’”

Hussein’s cries to God were heard and answered.

“I was [praying] underwater. Then all of a sudden I started going up and up and up. And then all of a sudden I was standing up and the waves started getting more violent. I started waving my hands and screaming.” Three lifeguards went into the water to pull Hussein out. Afterwards they told
him that they wouldn’t have gone in to get him if he hadn’t been such a strong swimmer, because he would have pulled them down too. The man who says he almost drowns in the shower just smiled thankfully. He knew Who had held his head above the water, Who had provided the strength for his “swimming.” And Hussein was ready to follow through on his prayer, to answer the call to service in the church.

When he first told the church leaders he was ready, they told him no. “You almost died,” they told him. “You are feeling emotional right now. Do you know how hard it is to minister in Iran and the sacrifice you have to give?” They wanted to test his commitment.

“I don’t care,” Hussein answered. “I have to. Jesus gave me one more chance and I have to do this. I was dying in that water and I have to use this chance that God has given me. It doesn’t matter if I have to sacrifice everything I have; I will do this.”

Hussein didn’t just talk. He took action. Over the next 30 days he quit his job (even though his boss offered him a promotion to stay), sold his car and paid his debts. Church leaders were convinced of his passion to serve, and Hussein was assigned to a pastor and his wife as an apprentice. For 30 days he would simply watch what they did, learning the depths and difficulties of ministering in a Muslim land. Even in his learning, God confirmed Hussein’s call.

As they walked into one house in the south of Iran, the daughter in the family began to cry. When she calmed down she told them that she had wanted to see Christ in her dreams, and three nights earlier she saw Christ in her dream and He led her to a table where she sat down with three people. And now those same three people had come into her home!

“She was very touched,” Hussein recalled, “and I was even more touched. It was very amazing to see how God works.”

Hussein’s story was featured in a past issue of VOM’s free monthly newsletter. You can sign up to receive VOM’s newsletter here. Come back tomorrow to read more about Hussein’s ministry and how Christ rescued him out of addiction and Islam.

Drainage Ditch Baptism

Recently one of our contacts in Laos was invited to visit a village to minister to three people who’d recently decided to follow Jesus. The small house church in their village had no pastor, and so this brother went to disciple the three new believers and other Christians in the village.

The pastor taught for several hours, and at the end the three new believers asked if they could be baptized. Nine other believers also said they had not yet been baptized and asked if the pastor would baptize them, too.

The village is not located near any body of water, so the only place they could find for the baptism was a drainage ditch with just barely enough water to submerge someone.

There was one problem: the drainage ditch ran directly in front of the home of the village leader, a communist. However, these brave Christians were determined to be baptized, and all 12 of them were. But shortly after they returned to their meeting place, a messenger arrived, demanding that
all of them report to the village elder immediately. They found police officers waiting and all of them were taken for questioning.

The most severe questioning was for the visiting pastor. Was he the representative of the official church for their area? No, he told them, but he had been invited by the villagers to come.

Thankfully, our brother was not arrested. He was, however, given a strict warning NOT to return. Village officials in Laos sometimes give grudging acceptance to existing Christians, but they are firmly against evangelism activities that lead new people to faith.

These new Christians knew where the village elder lived; they knew that holding a baptism service right in front of his house would be noticed. Yet they wanted to complete the physical demonstration of their spiritual transformation even if it meant inviting hardship.

Hearing their story reminded me of the story of Philip and the Ethiopian official in Acts 8. I could hear my Laotian brothers and sisters echoing the words of that official: “See, here is water. What hinders me from being baptized?” (Acts 8:36)

Philips answer was this: “If you believe with all your heart, you may.”

These new Laotian Christians believe with all their hearts. They didn’t care if the village elder was watching or not; they wanted to fulfill Christ’s call on their lives. May we also be so bold in carrying out the things He calls us to do, regardless of who’s watching.

Todd Nettleton has served the persecuted church and VOM almost 15 years. He has been interviewed more than 1850 times by various media outlets. He's the author of Restricted Nations: North Korea, and served on the writing team for FOXE, Extreme Devotion, Hearts of Fire and other VOM books.

Call Me

The email came at 4:47 p.m., just before I shut down my computer for the evening.

“Dear sister,” it read. “I will be with our sister at around 11 a.m. local time. Can you please give me a phone call then?”

Great! I thought. I’d been waiting for weeks to interview this persecuted believer. She’d been in hiding, and I wanted to hear her story in her own words and encourage her by telling her how many believers in the U.S. were praying for her. It took weeks of emails to our contact and then waiting for the right time for him to be able to travel to see her.

I started calculating the time difference. 11 a.m. their time would be… 2 a.m. my time. Hmm. Well, there would be no chance to record the interview with our office equipment, since I’d be calling from my living room in the middle of the night.

I set my alarm for 1:50 a.m. When it beeped, I sat on my couch for a moment, preparing my heart and mind to reach across the ocean to touch this believer who had felt so alone for many months.

I dialed the number carefully, hoping I’d dialed correctly as I listened to the international dial tone sound. When our contact picked up, I said, “Hello, brother. This is Dory, from the U.S.” He replied, “Hello!” and I felt like I could detect a smile in his voice. “I can see that you are very prompt!”

We had to wait a little while for the sister to get ready. In the meantime, I caught up with our worker, who I’d only spoken with through email. He also asked me to greet the pastor who had sheltered the sister I was waiting to speak to, when she needed a safe place to stay.

Finally, the sister was ready for me. We spoke for about 45 minutes through an interpreter. It was a little challenging because I couldn’t see her face or read her body language. She had trouble understanding my American accent. But she was so grateful for our help to her, and when she thanked me, I knew I was receiving her thanks on behalf of hundreds of Christians here who had written letters to her, prayed for her and sent funds to help her. When we finished talking, I prayed for her and her country.

After I hung up, I paused for a moment before crawling back in bed. In the old days, VOM founder Richard Wurmbrand could wait weeks or months to receive a scrap of a letter smuggled from behind the Iron Curtain. It was amazing that today I was able to pick up the phone and call the mobile phone of our contact to speak to a persecuted sister and hear her story in her own words.

I’m sure you are curious about who I was talking to and what we talked about! You’ll have to wait a little longer for that information while we put together something special.

Kids grateful for Bibles

Bibles Unbound  is a VOM project that provides Bibles to people in countries where access to Bibles is limited. Most of the recipients are adults, but VOM receives delightful thank-you letters from grateful children who have been given their first Bibles through the program. These children may be the future Christian leaders in their countries.

The following are a few of the translated letters received recently from Chinese children to VOM supporters who provide the Bibles:

*Thank you for giving us the word of God to read it. When I was in trouble, it was you who helped me obey God.

I am not a model student. I still remember in Grade Eight, I didn’t study in class, and made trouble such as sleeping, making faces. I ignored what my teachers said. Later, my mother believed in the Lord. In the beginning, I didn’t believe. But after reading the Bible, I came to believe in Him. Sometimes I went to church to listen to the sermons. I felt meaningful. After believing in the Lord, I was changed. I was no longer a trouble maker. I stopped sleeping and began listening to my teachers carefully.

Lord, thank you for letting me know You. I will follow You forever.

*Respectful aunts and uncles,

Greetings! I am Wang, 12 years old. I am in Grade Six. From my childhood I went to church with my mother and she often reads the Bible for me. Several days ago, my mother gave me the Bible and told me it was your contribution in love. I am glad. God bless you.

Every day, I read two chapters and share them with my mother. The words of God are good. Once I played with friends. Two of them argued with each other, and they didn’t speak to one another. I had no idea [what to do]. Suddenly, one verse in Matthew came into my mind: Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God… so I did work with them and they both agreed to make their peace. I had the blessing of God. Thank the Lord!

I will read the Bible carefully, and use it to help more people. I want to become the one who loves the Lord like you. May the Lord bless us! Amen! Love you.

*Aunts and uncles, greetings!

The teacher of our church has given me the Bible from you. I am a student in Grade Five. I attend Sunday school. I believed in the Lord last year. I didn’t have the Bible. When my teacher asked me to recite verses, I borrowed from my classmate and copied. I asked my teacher for the Bible. She said when she had the Bible she would give it to me. I prayed to God: please give me the Bible. You see, [everyone had a] Bible except me. This year, when I went to Sunday school last time, the Sunday school teacher gave me one new bible. I was so glad to have it. After I got home, I told my parents I had the Bible at last. They didn’t believe and laughed. So I told them how I got the Bible. They were excited hearing it. They told me it was because of the grace of God.

I give thanks to God. I also thank you for your contribution in love. I appreciate your help to house churches. May everyone have the Bible to read.

God remember you. Bless you, revive your church and add believers to your church. Amen.

*Spiritual fathers, peace from the Lord!

I am a student. I have been in Sunday school from my childhood. I often tell my classmates the story of Jesus and they listen to me carefully. I thought how wonderful it would be if there was the Bible for them. I have prayed to God for it over one year. The day before yesterday, when I came back home, my mother told me brothers from a distant place had supported our church with the Bible. I was overjoyed enough to jump high. Glory be to the Lord. May God bless you with good health, abundant life.

*I am Liu, 11years old. I am in Grade Five in the primary school. Two years ago, I believed in Jesus with my mother. By the Bible and biblical books I know about the Lord. So I know I will trust in the Lord. I also thank uncles and aunts far away from us for giving us the Bible. I am willing to tell Jesus to my schoolmates.

(Edited from original sources for clarity)

VOM’s Kids of Courage resources help parents and educators teach children ages 5 to 13 about persecuted Christians around the world, and provide opportunities for children to serve and pray for them.  www.kidsofcourage.com