Inspiring our next generation online
4Kids Website. (Image supplied by Captain Roscoe Holland)
A bright new Salvation Army website is engaging primary school children across Australia – from Sunday schools classes to kids on isolated properties.
The Salvos 4 Kids website challenges its young visitors to live beyond themselves. It’s an information and meeting hub where children can hear of upcoming events, learn about who God is, connect with The Salvation Army staff, and link to Christian videos and other Salvation Army ministries.
On the website, children can memorise a bible verse a day, take on weekly ‘random acts of kindness’ challenges, learn how to pray, and be entertained by ‘Justin’s Jokes’!
Explaining how the site came about, Territorial Children’s Discipleship Resource Coordinator, Captain Roscoe Holland says: "Each year we have, up at our Collaroy Conference Centre, a camp for kids who, for want of a better word, are underprivileged.
“They have so much fun connecting with so many good people and then the camp ends, and the kids find they have no connection after that."
Captain Holland says the aim of the new children's website is “so that these kids can still connect with us and with each other.
“We also want to help with the discipling process, because a lot of children make a decision to have faith in God while they are at camp.”
The website is already being used enthusiastically by children within The Salvation Army.
“A Sunday school class has decided to take on the Bible reading challenge and they are all doing it, and spurring each other on,” says Captain Holland.
Salvation Army Officers in rural locations are also using the website with children on isolated properties.
“I love that we are engaging kids and they are getting excited about faith!“ says Captain Holland.
Check out the new website at: salvos.org.au/4kids/
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