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          The following are submissions from house church kids. We're continually adding to this page, so check back often. The newest submissions will always be at the top of the page.

          By the way, if you have a house church kid - or if you are a house church kid - we'd love to hear from you. Just click on the mailbox below to send us a note. Tell us whatever you want to about your house church. What do you like best? What do you like least? Do you have a favorite song? What did you do last week? Be sure to include your name and age, and feel free to write as often as you like. Then, look for your message to appear here soon!

           
          I like the music and the food.
          I pray a lot too.  I like to pray
          because it makes people feel better.
          Sometimes we play too!  I get tickled
          and stuff.  I am glad God lets us play.
          God must be a really fun guy too.

          Caleb Kirk age 5

          Hoping for a sister next month so I can
          be the big brother.

          8/11/99


          What I love about church here is that it is real.  No fakeness or pretense. We love, support, encourage and correct each other face to face.  We experience actual love from each other and Jesus.  It is direct and without a filter to de-realify it.  Please pray!  Many of my friends are checking us out because they think we are real & cool.  One of my friends Tisha is now one of our most outspoken and caring members.  I tell my friends that we ain't nothing special.  That we are just a bunch of slobs trying to love Jesus, each other, and others the best we can.

          Thanks for listening,

          Amanda Kirk  soon to be 15
          8/4/99


          I like house-church because we can listen to good music whenever we want to.  We all eat together and Praise Jesus.  I like to go and have fellowship with my friends who are the same age as me and we have communion with a tea set.  Here are some poems that I wrote.

          FAITH
          Believe in the Lord our Savior
          Do me a favor - have
          Faith in the Lord and
          You won't get bored.

          GOD'S HOUSE
          He provides a warm house with no mouse
          I can fly a kite with no trees
          In my heart I can believe.
          Kirsten Jo Benit age 8 1/2
          2/17/98


          Shalom from our Lord Jesus Christ. Who is the Creator of the world.
          I enjoy our sweet fellowship in our home gathering as a part of the body of Christ.  HE is powerfull and just. Amen!

          My name is Ty
          Age:  14(may 30th)


          In housechurch we talk about God and life. We all know God takes care of us good. Because God is nice to people. I like our church. The food is always good and Joy brings dessert. We don't get much dessert except at housechurch.
           
          Noelle Blue, age 7
          3/6/97
           
          I love housechurch because I can talk to and about Jesus without having to just listen to a boring pastor tell me what to do and think.

          Being the church instead of just going to one has made my family bigger too. I have big people who are my friends now and they really care about me. I can crawl in John, Joy or Dave's lap anytime and get hugs and tickles. We go to zoos and movies and stuff too.

          Dancing and singing and eating are big fun too!

          Love,
          Becca Kirk, age almost 9
          3/5/97
           

          "I like home church more than going to other churches because it isn't as boring and we can talk about God in a way we understand; in ways that will help our everyday life.

          "One home church activity I enjoyed was when everyone wrote their most important questions about God and Christianity on a bit of paper. We put them all together in a container. Whenever we had some spare time we would take one out and read the questions. Everyone would put forward their ideas on an answer and we would talk until no-one had anything else to say.

          "One of the questions I remember went something like this: 'In the Bible women don't have as much power as men and don't do many important things. What does that mean for Christian women now?'

          "I liked what Charles said about this. He said that Jesus is in everyone of us so you shouldn't think that what a man says or does is always going to be better or more important than what a women says or does. When you see a man or a women you can always see Jesus in them. Women didn't do many important things in the Bible because their culture made it hard for them. But this doesn't mean that they weren't able to do these things.... This made a lot of sense to me.

          "Another day we talked about what heaven was like. Some of the kids were worried that it might not be nice; it might be boring. Charles who is about 50 said that he would probably be going to heaven before us and he would personally make sure everything was nice for all the children in our home church.

          "That cheered me up because a Charles-kind-of-heaven sounds like a lot of fun.

          "We also have a teenage youth group that kids from any of the Canberra Home Churches can go to and bring their friends. It is fun because we get to decide what we want to do and we can make friends that are different from our school friends."

          Alice Crisp, (aged 14)
          3/3/97
           

          Last home church, Daddy did a teaching. He showed us how the church works like a body. Each of us was a body part. I was Miss Right Leg. My brother was Mr. Right Foot. Joe was Senor Ears. Daddy was the body. We learned how God makes us all work together.

          Campbell Miller, age 8
          2/27/97
           

          Hi. Once I did a teaching about David and Goliath. I read the story from the Bible. I know that Goliath is over nine feet tall.

          Barth Miller, age 6
          2/27/97
           

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