The Love of a Child

Topics: Children, Missions

The following Illustration is for 1 John 5:1-6

More than 100 Chinese Christians received Bibles because of a child's
faith. Six-year-old Sophie Dillard of Smyrna, Ga., heard a radio program
about persecuted Christians in China and decided she wanted to help
them. She told her mother she wanted to send 85 Bibles to the country
through a program run by The Bible League, an Illinois ministry.

Her $5.16 in savings was enough for only one Bible, so she turned to her
kindergarten class at Covenant Christian School. She stood in front of
the class of 5- and 6-year-olds and told them about the persecution of
Christians in the world's largest Communist country and asked them to
help. "We could save our allowances and do extra jobs" to buy Bibles "so
people can learn about God," she said.

The children saved their dimes and nickels, filling in one square of a
chart on the wall every time they raised enough to buy one Bible, the
ministry said. Donations from outside the class began to come in,
including a $100 check, and within a few weeks the class raised $509.40,
enough to send 127 Bibles to China.

ReligionToday.com, May 23, 2000