Each year as a public school teacher, I told all my young students about salvation in Jesus. I was known as the Christian teacher. The head administrator, who was a Christian, was a very kind woman. She asked me, “How did you become the way that you are?”

I didn’t know myself, but, out of my heart, I said, “I did not choose it; God chose it. It has nothing to do with me.” She asked me to pray for her. We gently placed our hands together and prayed. It was such a sweet moment of Christ’s love for each other.

As I taught from the curriculum, there was not one academic subject in which God could not be found in the detailed text content. There was always some information that would give the opportunity to tell about God and His Son.

The students always received the stories about God and His Son that I would share. By the time Christmas came, I would give them all the opportunity to believe in Jesus as their Saviour. They each would bow their heads and pray.

One year, the last day of school, in the midst of the excitement and closing preparation activities, one of the students walked in my classroom with his father. They walked up to my desk. The student said, “Teacher, my father does not know Jesus.” I looked at the man and then at his son. This was so unexpected! I was caught by surprise.

I took a Bible in my hand and asked them to follow me to a private room. I looked at the man. He had a humble look and stood straight. His son stood as his father, back straight with expectation. In Spanish, I asked the father, “Do you want to give your life to Jesus?”

In Spanish he humbly responded, “Yes, teacher.”

I asked him to pray with me. His son was standing beside him. After we prayed, he was so relieved. His son, looking up at him, was smiling. I handed the Bible to him. He took it and held it tightly in one hand. With his other hand, he took his son’s hand. He then thanked me.

They both walked out of that private room, looking at each other, smiling. I watched them walk down the hallway. What a sight that was. There went father and son—hand in hand, born again—now both in Jesus’s hands, saved!

What better way to end a school year: the express gospel—from classroom student, home to parent!

 

“Abba Father, You are the God who created families. Lord Jesus, how You use children to tell their parents about You. And how You told them about Yourself in the public school system. Spirit of God, how You gave a school teacher the simplicity of the power of the gospel to use academics for God to be known. You made sure that God was found in every textbook so that salvation would be known in His Son, Jesus Christ!”

And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?

Matthew 21:16

But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 19:14

And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 18:3

The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

Psalm 11:4

How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

Psalm 36:7

God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.

Psalm 53:2

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Romans 1:16

For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!

1 Corinthians 9:16

For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;

Colossians 1:5

But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.

1 Thessalonians 2:4

All scripture is KJV.