You’re Never Too Young Or Too Old

Recently I (Tammy) went on a mission trip to the Dominican Republic with Lakeland Florida's Victory Church. There were a total of seventy-seven people on this trip, twenty of them on my evangelism team. The youngest on the evangelism team was a nine-year-old named Kayla. The oldest was Fred, a man in his seventies. Both of them were among the first to volunteer to be in the dramas and to share how Christ had impacted their life. They knew that God could use them and that God did not care that they were so young or too old.

Our nine-year-old Kayla was a young missionary of amazing strength. Among all our team members, she was to fist to volunteer to give her testimony at the schools. In spite of her very young age, she showed great strength, even when many of those older than here were too shy step forward. Kayla knew that she had something to share with the children in the Dominican Republic. Her testimony told how she grew up with a mother who did not take care of her, who failed to provide food and shelter, who caused her to suffer through a lack of attention. But a few years ago Kayla's story changed and her testimony was birthed. Kayla came to Victory Church where she met a family who would become her new parents. Kayla told the children that if they felt alone, sad, or unloved, that there are people out there in the world who love them and that she loved them too, but most importantly, that God loves them.

Being the first to give a testimony was not easy for Kayla. In fact, this was the first time she had ever given her testimony. However, after sharing one time with the children of the Dominican Republic, she had such boldness and such confidence that she wanted to do her testimony at every school we visited. Throughout that week, many children were touched by Kayla’s testimony and by the dramas that the team performed. Kayla knew that she was not just tagging along with her new family on this mission trip. She realized that she too was sent by God to do His work. For this week, she saw herself as a young missionary. Please join us in prayer for Kayla. Pray that this spirit of ministry that God has birthed in her spirit in the Dominican Republic will continue to grow. Pray that Kayla will continue to seek Him and grow in His Word.