Hello all, we are once again blessed to have a parent sharing from their own experience and story. Margee and Dan Curran have had their four children, Ebey, David, Hannah, and Hope, graduate from College Park High School. Margee shares about a life changing experience:
When my oldest daughter Ebey was about to start her senior
year at College Park High School I was sitting in a large meeting in Colorado
with about 5,000 other missionaries. Someone was talking about High School
ministry…. As the guy spoke, God began
to get MY ATTENTION!! A question popped
into my head, “ Will College Park be any different because my 4 kids have gone
there?” (and hopefully have been a
fragrant aroma of God’s presence at CP) At that point, my answer to that
question was NO!!
As I was sitting in the meeting, Jesus began to
give me an idea: What if our 2 high-schoolers invited their friends over once a
month for dinner, games and a short
bible study? Kind of like Young
Life. I asked Ebey (the senior) and
David (sophomore) what they thought. Ebey was excited and David was not. Since one of my kids was willing to try it,
Daniel and I decided to “go for it.” We
picked a date, made little invitations for Ebey to pass out and tried to figure
out what this would look like… That
first Sunday about 25 kids came. It was
fun, wild, noisy, disorganized and spastic, BUT the CP kids who came liked it
and wanted to come back again, and more importantly, David liked it and wanted
to invite his friends the next month. He
had been worried that it was going to be weird and needed to see one first
before he invited friends. We began to
call it Dinner with Jesus. I always made
a simple dinner (lasagna, salad, bread, dessert) I put my kids in charge of the
game and then we would read a story from the gospels about an interaction Jesus
had with someone- (like Jesus and Zaccheus in Luke 19) The kids would break up in small groups and
go answer questions about the text that we would discuss as a large group. In Isaiah 55: 11, it talks about God’s word not returning empty
without accomplishing what He desires. I
figured that as long as we “gave out” His word, it would accomplish things of
eternal value.
We
hosted these monthly meetings for about 5 years and then our 2 youngest
kids, Hope and Hannah decided to form a
club at College Park called Lunch with Jesus which replaced out monthly
dinners. Lunch with Jesus is in
it’s 4th year and is
continuing even after Hope graduated in June.
Margee Curran / margcurran@aol.com
Thank you for sharing Margee! What an incredible experience, and what a blessing it is to see how you and your family responded. Please contact the Curran family for more information on their ministry and how to get involved!
Hello, hope your holidays are going well so far. It is definitely the calm before the storm for me right now. I wanted to share this resource that Dean, Ian, Katie and I developed to help students get into the Christmas story. There is a devotional book and youTube videos will be posted to go with the studies. I pray that this helps your family get into the reason for celebration!
