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From CBN. With all the talk about issues between parents and America’s public schools, students across Pennsylvania are learning about Jesus and the Bible, thanks to the unique approach of Bible2School.
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Kori Pennypacker, the CEO of Bible2School, told CBN News, “Bible2School is a 40-year-old nonprofit organization and we equip parents, moms, dads, grandparents to teach the Bible to public school kids during their school day – that means typically over lunch and recess.”
Kids are bussed to churches or other locations during these periods to learn Bible lessons before heading back to their public school classroom. …
You might wonder how Bible2School can make this happen during the school day.
“There is something called the Release Time Court Rulings, and this was from back in 1914 when the Bible actually used to be a reader in school,” Pennypacker said. “Everybody had one. Think Little House in the Prairie. And then, around that time period, early 18- or 19-hundreds, they took the Bible out of school, but they had these release time rulings that said you can release kids from school, maybe one hour a day; different in different states, at different times.” …
Parent and fellow volunteer Meredith Steidler helped start a program in her own community. For her, in addition to Bible lessons, the classes can help counter the negative messages culture sends to the children.
Steidler explained, “They’re just inundated with so many lies and so many worldviews and so many hard things that they might even be going through themselves. And they get to come once a week to hear about how they’re loved, how they have purpose, and it’s just fun to be able to do that with them. And it’s amazing to be able to speak truth over the lies that culture is trying to give them.” …
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(Excerpt from CBN. Photo Credit: Ben White on Unsplash)
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Thank you, Lord, for Bible2School and Release Time Court Rulings. I am very encouraged by this article because I personally know how impactful this can be on little ones. As a child in elementary school in California, I was bussed every Friday afternoon to a local church for instruction in Catholicism. Among other things. I learned about the day of Pentecost and the Holy Spirit descending on the disciples. At the age of 18, I left the Catholic Church and became a self-proclaimed agnostic, believing it was impossible to know if there was a God. About eleven years later, I was amazed to learn from my mother that she had received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit and she spoke in other tongues. This, to me, was proof that God was real and His Word, the Bible, truth. (1 Corinthians 14:22) Without the teaching I had received on those Friday afternoons, I don’t think I would have recognized that her experience was something recorded in the Bible. This was my first step in coming to receive Jesus as my Lord and Savior. Thank you , Lord, for these laws that will provide a chance for these little ones to learn about You and Your Word; and that it might be used to bring them to salvation.
I will never forget when I taught Bible Release Time in our elementary school. I had a very troubled 5th grade girl who lingered after the invitation to receive Jesus. As we prayed together she began to weep. We shared a hug and she was back on the bus to go back to the classroom. Later that afternoon as she was crossing the highway after exiting her school bus she was struck by a speeding car and killed instantly. God knows that Sarah had a divine appointment that day and I will see her again on the streets of gold.
Betsy, thank you for sharing this story! Each moment is urgent, isn’t it?
Child Evangelism Fellowship brings Good News Clubs into elementary schools. Any child may attend. Through real Bible lessons, fun songs, real exciting mission stories and fun songs that teach scripture including the reference many children are learning about salvation through the blood of Jesus Christ in every state in our nation. We are also in every country in the world except N Korea.
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Thank You Jesus for all the children of the world. Please reach every corner of our planet with the Good News even the children in North Korea. We worship Your holy name believing in the miracle working love of Jesus.
This is huge great news. ThankYou Lord!
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