Why Great Adventure address?

The Great Adventure Address may be a bit confusing as it opens my blog to the title "For Such A Time As This". Let me explain.

"For Such A Time As This" is the name of a community ministry I have been a part of for 5 years. Within that outreach ministry - one of the things we do is minister to children in the local public school with and after school program, teaching Bible Truths in a Good News Club through Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF). After 2 years of using CEF materials, we decided to become an independent club for our intermediate school, developing our own program and lessons. We now have introduced approximately 80 children a semester to Jesus with 4 different and exciting themes to draw the children to come to our "Great Adventure Club". They are learning Bible Truths, about a personal relationship with Jesus, and the salvation HE offers to all that believe. It is a Great Adventure as we help equip the kids to handle the Bible, hide God's Word in their hearts, and that 'Every Word In The Bible Is....ABSOLUTELY TRUE! We have an acrostic for that catch phrase --- E.W.I.T.B.I.A.T. It has, not only caught on with the kids in the club, but also kids throughout the school, as well as teachers and other adults in the community. Anywhere we see kids from our club - we simply say, "Every Word In The Bible Is....." and the response comes back (sometimes quite loudly) "Absolutely TRUE!"

That statement is the basis of why we do what we do for Jesus with the kids. In a world that tells them there are no absolute truths - we share the one place they can trust to find that TRUTH every heart seeks. TRUTH is a man - the GOD/MAN, JESUS. We desire, when they hear that non-sense of "there is no absolute truth" - they will be prompted to remember that no matter what the world says, there is Truth - and that Truth is GOD - and the Bible will equip them with the Truth their life needs.

Above is a photo of the "Great Adventure Club" taken in March of 2008. Our theme was "Expedition 16:15". Each child was equipped to understand what a missionary does, the message they take, and to be a missionary - to share the gospel of Christ - starting in their world - where they live and play.