Topics: Children; Discipleship; Evangelism; Fruitfulness; Preaching
References: Matthew 19:13–15; Mark 4:3–20; Romans 10:14–15
Edward Kimball, a shoe store assistant and a Sunday school teacher in Chicago, spent hours of his free time visiting the young street urchins in Chicago’s inner city, trying to win them for Christ. Through him, a young boy named D. L. Moody got saved in 1858. Moody grew up to be a preacher.
In 1879, Moody won F. B. Meyer to the Lord. Meyer became a preacher and won J. W. Chapman to Christ. Chapman became a preacher and brought the message of Christ to a baseball player named Billy Sunday.
Sunday held a revival in Charlotte, North Carolina, which was so successful that evangelist Mordecai Ham was invited to Charlotte to preach. Under Ham’s preaching, a teenager named Billy Graham gave his life to Jesus.
It all started with winning one child to Jesus.
—Bill Wilson, Streets of Pain (Word, 1992)