Mother's Scars
Ignoring the flames and thick smoke that billowed out of the doorway, Ado's mother ran into the house to rescue her baby.
Ignoring the flames and thick smoke that billowed out of the doorway, Ado's mother ran into the house to rescue her baby.
Gideon is 9 years old. He lives in Lagos, the largest city in Nigeria. Gideon wants to be a pastor when he grows up, but he already shares his faith with others.
Nigeria
Ama was 9 years old when her father took a new job and moved to northern Ghana. Mother had to remain in their former town for several months.
Joseph loved his new school, and when he learned that the children attended Sabbath School on Sabbaths, he wanted to go too. His mother walked him to the church on her way to work.
“Father says I’m a missionary,” Theodore says, “because I invited Amos to come to Jesus. You can be a missionary too,” he adds. “Just tell your friends about Jesus and invite them to come to church with you.”
When Patricia’s mother died, Patricia went to live with her grandmother. Her father couldn’t pay her tuition at the Adventist school, so he sent Patricia to the public school near their home.
The children walk silently and single file toward their school more than a mile away. They can’t talk because it’s too noisy to hear one another over the roaring traffic that passes just inches from them.
Basile lives in the country of Benin. He has lots of brothers and sisters, for his father had two wives. Papa was a voodoo priest.
Benin
Jesus said, “And this gospel . . . will be preached in the whole world . . . , and then the end will come” (Matthew 24:14, NIV). If Jesus won’t come until everyone has heard that God loves them, what can we do to tell others the good news?
Jóhann jumped off the school bus and ran toward the modern glass building nearby. Today was a class field trip, and Jóhann loved field trips.
Mihael (MEE-hel) is 7 years old and lives in Macedonia. Mihael’s father is a pastor, and often Mihael goes with him to visit people.
Adventist children in Macedonia take their faith seriously. Let’s meet some Adventist children and learn how they share God’s love with others.