Over a period of ten weeks, the Awana leaders of a Spokane, Washington, church used The Lamb picture book to teach first- to sixth-graders. Each week, the leaders taught a chapter using pictures projected on a wall. Then they asked questions, for which the children could get points for answering correctly. Three-quarters of the children came from an unchurched background.
During one lesson, when the picture of a man laying his hand on a lamb’s head next to the altar was shown, Michael, a fourth-grade boy asked: “But why did the lamb have to die for the man’s sin?”
“I know the answer to that!” a second-grade boy answered him. “It’s because this is how Jesus was going to die for us.”
At the end of the program, the saving work of Christ became all the more clear to Michael and the other children.
“So Jesus is our Lamb!” they said again and again. “He died for us so we didn’t have to!”
Thirteen children, including Michael, raised their hands to express faith in Christ.
“God is doing amazing things,” says Allie, the Awana coordinator. “Hearing the children say, ‘Jesus is our lamb’ tells us that that they’re getting it. It really hit home with them. The Lamb is one of the best tools we’ve had.”
Each child also got a CD of The Lamb story to take home to listen to with their parents. And connecting with the families proved fruitful: As a result of The Lamb, three families began attending the church. This included Michael’s father, who had previously told the Awana leaders, “I am not a religious man.”
Names have been changed
