Dear Friend,
“Mr. Bob, I got saved by God today.”
These were the words seven-year-old Anna Carter said to me recently. Anna’s father, Mike, told me that he and Anna were looking through the Kids 4 Truth website when Anna started asking questions about God and eternity. Mike said that he was able to use the website as a teaching tool to help her “connect the dots” and understand important eternal truths. He had the opportunity to lead his daughter to the Lord. Praise God for His marvelous truth! Praise God that He saw fit to use our ministry to help Anna understand her need for the Savior. There are millions of children all over the world who need the truth, just like Anna.
This is what Kids 4 Truth is all about. We want to inspire and equip God’s people to teach boys and girls the most important truths about God. And by God’s grace, we’ve made some pretty big strides toward that goal over the last year. Please allow me to update you.
- The number of churches either using or Kids 4 Truth Clubs or shortly planning to begin using them has increased significantly this year. We have over 100 churches using our clubs this fall. Praise the Lord!
- Over the past few months, we’ve been updating and upgrading our entire curriculum. As God allows and provides, we will begin to translate this complete and polished English translation into several different languages. Spanish, Portuguese, and French are languages at the top of our list. Please pray as we look into specifics regarding translation work.
- Our website has continued to enjoy high numbers of visitors. About 10,000 people come to our website every day to read devotionals, download resources, view our award-winning Dynamations, and discover concise, child-friendly answers to some of life’s toughest questions. If you have not visited www.kids4truth.com recently, please do come see all that is available.
- On August 1, we released The Watchmaker Dynamation. This Dynamation fostered a surge of new visitors of both those who agree and those who disagree with us. With the increase of visitors came an increase in e-mail questions, downloads, and interest in the clubs. We praise the Lord for how He has used this Dynamation to bring Glory to Himself.
- We praise the Lord for the launch of a new EquipU site. This site allows us to serve our churches better with online support, more downloadable files, and a new staff blog page to keep our churches in the “know” of what is happening at Kids 4 Truth. Soon we will launch a completely redesigned Kids 4 Truth website which will prove to be our most interactive site yet. We also plan to release a new on line store that will feature new customer-friendly features.
- We have moved! Since our early days as an incorporated entity, our humble ministry has leased office space from Tri-City Ministries. Over this past year, we realized an increasing urgency to move into a place of our own. We needed to relocate for 3 key reasons: 1– identity, 2– accessibility, and 3– and (most importantly) space! Thankfully, God has provided a solution. Our new offices are wonderful! The building is on the sidewalk level in a fairly high-profile area of Lee's Summit, a nice suburb in the greater Kansas City area. There are two large windows in front, and I have become reacquainted with sunlight. We are renting from likeminded landlords who have been very gracious to us. Over the past few months, we have been remodeling and preparing the offices. Thanks to the help of many Christ-like servants, the interior work is done. We have successfully moved our “stuff” about 15 miles across town to the new offices. It has been an exciting adventure. People have donated time, talent, and resources. Professional dry-wallers, painters, electricians, etc. gave so much to help complete the project. Our landlords have paid for most of the material cost of renovation, and have now begun renovating the front of the building to make it more “Kids 4 Truth specific.”
We are very thankful to God for His enabling grace. We acknowledge that if anything good has happened through us in the last year; it is because of God’s goodness. Philippians 2:13 – For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Thank you for all that you have done to stand with Kids 4 Truth. You are a tremendous blessing to us. We hope that this update will be an encouragement to you.
Please let us know if there is anything we can do to serve you.
Sincerely,
Bob Roberts and the Kids 4 Truth Executive Team
***check out Bob's Blog at: www.kids4truth.com/bobsblog for photos of our new offices.