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From the Heart of a KFCUSA Mom |
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The following email comes from a mom who's kids have been involved in
KFCUSA for years. She has also been a part of one of our parent teams in the Tulsa area.
The email appears almost exactly as I recieved it, except for the fact that I
protected the identity of her, her children and the local churches she was suggesting I contact. She begins with a promotional idea and then bares her soul. I feel the context of what she is saying is so highly important for the overall KFCUSA family to hear and connect with that I posted it below. (With her permission.) I hope it moves you as it did me. Here is the email:
Hi Bob,
OK, this is great, what can I DO? My younger daughter is in
6th grade and the older is in 8th grade. When do you meet, day and time?
Shouldn't there be a Kids 4 Christ Rally Concert? Maybe "XZY" Church would
assist in getting it put on their screens....ya know. Replay it for school
groups to see. Use it as a springboard to get kids to be bold and go to their
schools to start groups. I bet another would show it to the kids.
They need a motivation to SPEAK OUT and STAND for their SAVIOR. He's
mightier than anyone they know, the enemy makes Him out to be a wimp in the
midst of the apathy filled schools. Daily, God is able to DELIVER, but
daily all they see is long lines at lunch as the biggest obstacle out
there. HOW BORING! The kids could even start meeting after school to
review what God is doing and praise Him before game time, they could meet
in the gyms and focus on praying for the team that will be playing and
then include the needs of the kids and then see prayers answered.
WHAT
WOULD BE THE PURPOSE OF ALL THIS? WINNING SOULS?
What is the purpose of
your life, what is the purpose of my life? I've seen people get delivered and
then go back to their old life or DIE. Its sad to see your hopes for people
crushed, you hope God is going to show Himself soooo BIG and then BAM, things
go sour.
WHAT WOULD BE THE PURPOSE OF ALL THIS?
As a kid I entered
school with such shame at 5 years old. My parents had divorced and I had no
Dad in my house. It created such shame in me that I was not even able to
label it as such until I was 41. I geared my life to protect my shame from
being seen. I smiled alot, I laughed alot, I FIT IN alot. And at 41 I
realized I still didn't fit in anywhere in His plan. Except for 1 place. In
my childrens lives. I did not have a place to grow and thrive in safety
because shame was always present. Shame always kept me in my place. Its sad
to think but I know other things keep other people in their place. Not just
shame...The kids we see today don't even acknowledge shame, it would appear.
Which is probably a very good thing. They call it what it is and stay in
the group their in, good or bad and start USING things to cover their
pain that everyone knows about. I never let anyone know my pain, I was
raised that way. They don't care who knows and just keep going with the
group. Am I thinking out loud too much, does this spark a nerve in you? I
think brainstorming is necessary.
You are in contact with a lot
of people, are they brainstorming with you about the kids? Something needs
to happen. I know these kids are not raised barbarically and yet things turn
Barbaric quickly for some.
Shouldn't they know that our eyes are not
closed.
Something I don't agree with is the old phrase, "there are things
kids can't handle, they should not be told about until their older." I
think carrying shame unknowingly was very damaging for me as a child,
but no one told me what I was carrying or how to get rid of it. When I
got saved I thought everything would change and a lot did because of
the
boundaries I put up. But 20 years later I found out I was still
bound by shame and hiding it. Even the Church did not take time with me
to label things, my mother is only now even open to His Love, so
believe me she had no clue how to handle my salvation and the changes I made
in my life. All I had was the church to depend on and even they let
me down. That is a sad reality to face.
I don't think our kids are any
different than I was at 20. They want TRUTH but no one is willing to RISK
anything to Give it to them...not even their parents. I take that back, You
are, but you can't do it alone. Its a relationship you've committed to just
like the long relationship every married person commits to at the proposal
when they say "Yes". They may not stay in it, but they committed not even
knowing what that commitment meant. I don't know what this commitment means
for my own kids and I, but my heart is in the right spot. They know its not
cool for me to be there at the Kids for Christ, but they are proud that I
was there...when I was. Let me know what I can do.
A Long Time KFCUSA Mom and Parent team memeber.
Just recently I was informed of three girls who formerly attended our clubs that have ended up pregnant at 17. Two of them were pressured into abortions and even one of them is pregnant again and getting married. Did KFCUSA fail? NO! We are just one part of the equation! We have become absentee parents and absentee churches when it come to kids that just happen to attend public schools. I simply believe that this is not God's plan.
How many more children have to grow up "in shame" before we decide to
take the next significant step in reaching a new generation of Kids for
Christ? The children of America need you to get involved. We need you
too, in order to reach more of them. Just press the contact button,
send us an email or call and make a bold step: Get involved. Maybe
you need to hit the "make a donation" tab and step up that way or maybe
prayer is your thing: WE NEED PRAYER TOO! Buttom line if my friend's
email moved you PROVE IT! MOVE!
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