Haitian Children love stories!

Haitian Children love stories!

In the past few days I have had a chance to several stories about my life in Haiti and also that illustrate the Gospel to two groups of primary school children.

At one school, I told the story of a little boy who begged his Father to buy him a soccer ball. After a long time, the Father was able to sell a goat and buy the boy a soccer ball. The boy loved the ball and enjoyed many days of playing soccer with his friends. But one day, after playing a hard game, he was very tired and went to sleep next to a window with the ball lying on his chest. A thief took the ball while he was sleeping and when the boy woke up, he realized it had been stolen. A few days later, his mother asked him to go buy matches at a store and while walking down the street, he saw his soccer for sale in a store. He ran home and told his Father, but he said the only way to get the ball back was to buy it back. So the Father did this because he loved his son.

Then I told them the story of creation and how Satan tricked Adam and Eve into sinning and how they lost their beautiful garden home. (Just like the boy lost his soccer ball). Then I drew a parallel between how God send Jesus to pay the penalty for our sins, just like the Father in the story bought back the soccer ball for his son.

At another school, I meet the 18 young players who make up our team and was able to tell them the story of how God preserved my life after I was shot, and also got to show them the bullet holes in my truck.

I challenged both of these groups to examine their hearts and make sure they have a relationship with God through Christ, because we never know when we are going to die!