“Everyone is dark and scary.” This is what a kindergartener told me at Bible club. I could see the fear in her eyes.

Another girl on my small group joined in the conversation. “Sometimes I see things that scare me too, like people in Halloween costumes. They look like vampires.” These girls had so many fears going on inside.

“Am I scary?” I asked her.

“No, at Bible club it’s different,” she said. “Everyone here is light. I’ve never seen that before.”

www.inthegap.orgThe following week God gave me an idea: to teach my small group girls about His love for them. We would make princess crowns and I would tell them about being His princesses. I wrote a sign above our team station that said “God’s princesses.”

The girls were delighted with our craft time, and asked, “Is there glitter for our crowns?” I asked one of the other small group leaders if I could borrow some, and soon our whole small group area was covered in silver sparkles. I was too, but I didn’t mind. I loved it. These precious girls were learning about a God Who loves them, and overcomes darkness with the light. That evening when a dad came to pick up one of the girls from Bible club, the first thing she said to him was, “I’m God’s princess!” Nicole Mellas, Level 3

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