“I don’t think God is going to do anything special through me here.” This thought nagged me the whole way to school. Sure enough, at the end of the day I left school disappointed. It had gone well enough, but I didn’t feel that the kids got anything out of what I...

"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...

Since last summer, I have been struggling with a strong fear of rejection. I didn't know how to break it, or if the power of this fear could be broken at all. I’d been trying to do it in my own strength, and asking God to help me do it. But it had never occurred to me...

I was overjoyed at the prospect of coming back to ITG this session, but nervous. My family and I would be arriving back in the States from an overseas missions trip the day before session started. I would surely still be suffering from jet lag. How would I survive? I...

"What do you want to be when you grow up?" I asked the class. Several children raised their hands. “A judge,” said one. “A teacher,” said another. The third said, “A basketball player!” I called on one last boy: "I want to be a preacher," he said with a striking...

"Jesus! Jesus, Jesus, Jesus!" The little girl's words were a direct answer to prayer. The day before God had burdened my heart to pray that the name of Jesus would be spoken in class at school. I realized that throughout the session we actually got to talk a lot about...