Children's Prayer Movement project is one of Kone Kmeng's projects that we believe the children will bring changes to their families, communities as their faith is strengthened through a lifestyle of prayer. So in order to help build their faith, we develop a foundation prayer teaching curriculum as a entire year course and provide trainings to children's teachers of churches, as well as we conduct children's prayer fellowship once a year in each province where we are networking with. Moreover, we gather the testimonies of what God has done in their lives to develop as booklets twice a year.
Children’s Prayer Teaching KK Curriculum Development
Children teaching KK curriculum is developed to teach children of churches on prayer. It has twelve chapters which contain forty-eight lessons altogether, so it is the whole year course. Children will be equipped with foundation of how to pray and effective prayer.
Children’s Teacher Trainings
Children’s Teacher Training is one of Children’s Prayer Movement programs of Kone Kmeng and its purpose is to equip children’s teachers of churches to be able to work and help their children on the relationship with Jesus Christ. Around 80-100 children’s teachers of churches in 2011, will be equipped with strategies and methods to strengthen the faith and God’s word of children.
Children’s Prayer Fellowships
Children of churches in the province where we are working with gather together in a certain place to raise voice to God concerning to their current issues in which affect their lives. Moreover, they are given the opportunity to show their talents and gifts as public by performing dramas, singing, dancing anything that they have so that these children can be encouraged that they are not alone. Now, there are more than 250 children meet to pray every week at churches in the 3 provinces.
Testimony Printing
Twice a year, we gather the testimonies of children who God has done in their lives to put together as booklets and print out. It is made in order to encourage the readers and other children on what God has worked in children lives particularly by their prayer.
Background - Christianity in CambodiaUnder the Khmer Rouge thousands of Christian's were murdered. Any form of religion was banned and Christianity was wiped out. However, since, the numbers of Christians are growing, thousands of churches and house churches are scattered around the country now from maybe half a dozen in 1990. The current government has allowed freedom to practice Christianity.
In 2010, Kone Kmeng has a goal to mobilize 30 churches in 3 provinces to give courage to the children to pray regularly in their own churches.
We have heard many testimonies from the children how God answered their prayers.
Total project cost for the current year* $3,600.0
Testimony
I live in the eastern part of Cambodia near the Vietnam border. My father used to drink a lot and beat up my mother, brothers, sisters and me when he got drunk. The pastor at the church always encouraged us and taught us how to pray to God. One day we had the children’s prayer fellowship. Many children from my province came together. We prayed against the violence in our families. Mostly I prayed that God would help my family, especially my father. A few months after later, my father stopped drinking wine. He doesn’t beat us anymore. I praise God because He has changed my father’s life.