Can I eSign Illinois Children`s Ministry Volonteer Application

Can i document type e sign childrens ministry volonteer application illinois

so you said yes if somebody from the church came by and said hey we need more volunteers for our children's ministry and for some reason moment of weakness you said why yes I'll do that I can help out with that and now that you're into it you're coming up with all kinds of reasons why you probably need to get out of it but there are people who are more qualified than you you know that you really don't have time for this I mean you've got bills to pay and jobs to do and besides there are other ministries that you would be more qualified for maybe that's what you're thinking go or maybe you're just delighted with what's going on in the ministry and ready to keep at it wherever you are let me just give you this word of encouragement for those of you excited about what's going on I have the same word of encouragement for those of you that aren't sure that you can keep going on here it is let me start with an interesting statistic did you know that you probably did 83% of every human being that comes to Christ does so between the ages of 4 and 14 let me say that again 83% of all Christians convert between the ages of 4 and 14 simply put there is no more effective ministry in the entire church than children's ministry four out of five people who ever come to Christ do so in this ministry of the church folks that's just that's just hitting with the thick side of the bat you aren't going to do anything more effective than this you aren't going to plow any row straighter or deeper than this it's not going to bear more fruit than this not only do children come to Christ in droves during this period so do the parents who are driving them to church here's the deal often young parents sense this need to be spiritual guides for the children's lives but they are spear oriented themselves they don't have church background so it is during this time of young Parenthood that they are most open to bringing their children to church and during that season 4 to 14 they have more interaction with Christians than they will ever have again in their lives not only as children's ministry reach children children's ministry reaches the parents of children here's something else that Solomon discovered back in proverbs 22:6 train up a child in the way he should go and even when he is old he won't depart from it now that's obviously a proverb not a promise so you can't say that every child that goes to Sunday school is going to die a believer but you can say this that statistically the probability is far greater that one will die and go to heaven if they've lived as a child in Sunday School modern psychologists have confirmed what Solomon discovered that the deepest values in our lives come from what we were taught as children by the time a child is four five six years old they're thinking patterns about morality are already established if we can intersect with a child during these pivotal years of four to fourteen that even if they have a season of wandering the likelihood that they will return to the Christian roots in adulthood is very very strong there simply is no more effective ministry in the church than this there's something I want to encourage you with too because I know that if you are having some of those questions about your own effectiveness or if this matches your gifts ad or whatever's going through your head then perhaps you need to remember this kind of axiom of ministry has guided me in over 20 years of teaching is simply this that children who are unlovely and that not only be pause there there are children who are unlovely in fact you can put names and faces to them that little kid with a DD that little girl who throws a tantrum the one who gossips the one who steals toys the one who writes with permanent marker on the whiteboard they're everywhere back to the rule of life the children who are unlovely are not unlovely because they're unlovable but because they're unloved let me say it again children who are unlovely are not unlovely because they're unlovable but because they are unloved I want to tell you story about Billy that is not his real name he is a very real person I can assure you that he drove me crazy I teach at the college level and so you shouldn't have college level students acting like 4 to 14 year olds but trust me I understand children's ministry well this guy every day in class when I took role I would call his name Billy mmm he would always respond never the same way and it was always something childish and stupid sometimes he would stand up on his desk and shout out Oh captain my captain mildly entertaining I suppose but very irritating at the same time one day he had just gotten to me and he was absent from class that day or at least so I thought and I hate to confess this but there was something inside me that said oh good I won't have to deal with him today that's just how shallow I am if you can relate then god bless you as I called his name with some unstated and hopefully hidden relish I I thought I would be met with silence I was not he answered here from underneath my desk where he had been hiding now this is a sophomore in college I chastised him of course appropriately sent it back to his seat and said Billy don't ever do that again and the Holy Spirit began to chastise me he said you don't even know him how can you not like him if you don't know him ask him out to lunch well I don't need to tell you I suppose that the last thing on my agenda was going out to lunch with Billy he just irritated the fire out of me but if you've ever had a discussion with the Holy Spirit you know that I lost and at lunch I asked Billy but one question dude what's your story and it began to unpack for me the series of abuse and neglect that shamed me and I realized that day that had I been through half of what Billy had been through I would not be half the man that Billy was and the Lord taught me that day people are not unlovely because they're unlovable but because they're unloved look there's no magic ending to Billy's life he struggled through college he did get his degree I got to meet his parents at graduation oh my word I'm not saying that loving somebody is is a magic fix but for me it went a whole long way to loving this student that really needed my love and if you have some students that are unlovely they are the most important ones in your class or perhaps I should better say it this way if you have unlovely students to them you are the most important person in their life if you can but love them when nobody else does you can make a permanent change and that my friends is hitting with a thick into the bat let me pray with you Lord we have this incredible opportunity to invest in people's lives at pivotal moments at key junctures and for everyone hearing my voice right now I pray that your Holy Spirit would empower them to teach the gospel to the least and the loss the most vulnerable and the most receptive I pray that your Holy Spirit would sustain them with their own Billy's with their own trials with their own schedules with their own frustrations Holy Spirit we call on you to complete the work of the teaching ministry of the church for the lives of children for the glory of God and for the fame of our Lord Jesus Christ amen