Newsletter – October 2026 “Where My Passion for Christ Began.”.by Emma Grace Kilgo “When people ask me, ‘Emma Grace, what has been instrumental in your faith? Where does your passion come from?’ it all goes back to L.I.T. As a young kid, I helped lead VBS at various apartment complexes. I carried that same enthusiasm into college and life after graduation. “Through L.I.T., I learned who the Holy Spirit is and experienced God’s presence. I continued to experience that same pre

Newsletter - August 2026 Students from Burkina Faso, Africa. Faces are covered for their safety. Leaders in Training Apprentices by Heidi Hayslip We trained more than 60 children's pastors at the conference in Burkina Faso last March and asked 11 of them to complete a condensed three-month version of L.I.T. in their churches or kids' clubs. Each children's pastor chose 10 kids and has been mentoring and training them once a week to serve as apprentices and help teach and lead

L.I.T. July 2026 Newsletter I was sitting in the foyer of Immanuel Baptist Church in Norman, Oklahoma, when Mike came in the front door with tears in his eyes. He said, “Clint, seven children just gave their lives to Christ. The L.I.T.s taught and gave an invitation. I listened in as the kids sat down and counseled each child. I talked with all of them afterward, and all of the kids knew exactly what they had done.” Mike was filled with excitement as he shared what he had wit

L.I.T. June 2026 Newsletter Delayna, who is now age 17, leads worship for the student ministry on Sunday mornings and for L.I.T. at her church on Monday evenings. She started L.I.T. at Church Alive when she was in the third grade. Delayna shares, “I remember before our first street mission trip that I wrote so many sermons. I remember I was so eager to preach it. I was thinking, ‘Someone needs to hear this.’ I could see something there that I felt God was nudging me to do.

Pilot Program Launched in Burkina Faso, Africa, Isaac Mphande & Heidi Hayslip The Pilot Program has clearly been a God-given vision, and though it has faced intense spiritual, financial, family, and work-related opposition, we believe those attacks confirm that God is moving powerfully through it. Please pray for the 11 children’s workers, their adult helpers, and the 110 children they will intentionally mentor and disciple through the end of June—that God would protect them