With a gaggle of kids among us, ranging from infants to 3-years-olds, my friends and I have been tossing around ideas about how to educate our kids.

If you've followed VOM for any length of time, you might have seen reports about a children's home in Nigeria. The Stephen Centre, run by a VOM partner, is home to more than 300 "Nigerian Special Children."

"I have concerns about materials that might introduce pain, torture, and death to a young child without a context for them" — Scottie May, author and professor of Christian Spirituality, quoted in Christianity Today

Today I'd like to share with you a wonderful post that is found on our Kids of Courage website. If you don't read the blog at our Kids of Courage page on a regular basis, I want to encourage you to start. Please click here to read some of the other posts.

One of the most important things we can do as parents and Sunday school teachers is to teach our kids about the persecuted church. Which is exactly the reason why we are accepting submissions now through September 1st from any child who has been involved in serving the persecuted church.

Today I had to tell you that there is a very inspiring post over on our Kids of Courage website that I'd love for you to click here and go and read.

Today I wanted to alert you to a need that you may be able to help us with. Our Kids of Courage network is looking for pictures and/or video of children who have ministered to the persecuted church.

One of the minstries of The Voice of the Martyrs is the Kids of Courage ministry, which has its own website at www.kidsofcourage.com , and today I was delighted to see a lovely letter from a girl in Virginia. The reason this touches my heart is because if a child can take a moment to write a letter to a ministry that is helping persecuted Christians around the world, how much more so, those of us who are adults take action for our persecuted brothers and sisters.

If you haven't visited our Kids of Courage website recently, I'd like to encourage you go click here and go check it out. The website is loaded with a lot of extremely valuable information to help parents educate their children about Christian persecution, in an age appropriate manner.

Recently, The Voice of the Martyrs has presented the new Vacation Bible School materials through our Kids of Courage program, which was unveiled in 2011, and aims to share the persecuted church with children.