Ricardo with some of his students at Bible Club
At one of our Bible clubs we have seventeen little boys on our small group. That’s crazy! Every week we get more children. The kids are awesome, but one of the boys would not behave. Every week we had to give him disciplinary checks, and my teaching partner and I began praying for him. I wondered, “What is wrong with this kid?”
Then one week at the beginning of Bible club he began misbehaving again. God spoke to my heart and told me to praise him. I thought, “What in the world? This kid is not behaving—and now I’m going to praise him for it?” But I decided I would do it. I told the little boy, “Hey, today you are my new assistant.”
He said, “Really?”
I told him I was serious, and so now he was going to be my helper at Bible club.
He was so excited. And he behaved really well. “Wow,” I thought. “Praise really works!” Ricardo Verboonen, Level 2 Intern
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