Mission Impossible Blogs
I was extremely grateful and excited to have the opportunity to do mission impossible. In addition to that I think that it is such an amazing and creative way to reach out to primary school children, and teach them about the Easter story in a way that they understand. One of the best things about it was the response and enthusiasm the kids had, and one of the things that encouraged me the most was the amount of knowledge some of the kids had about the Easter story.
-Shereen Sinjab, SMC 1st year
Mission Impossible was a two week fun packed time, with some great kids. I thoroughly enjoyed being able to be a part of the schools work and being able to give the story of Jesus to them. We had five zones which we went round that explained different parts of the crucifixion including the trial, a doctor’s report and a witness retelling her experience. It was great fun pretending to be a secret agent, I was so good I almost deceived myself that I was a really agent! We got the kids really pumped up and really to start their mission, most if not all the feedback forms said how great it was and how much fun they had. Totally worth it to see them go away with the knowledge that Jesus Christ has died and risen again for them!
-Faith Oti, SMC 1st year
Easter, a lovely time of year, spring is around the corner, crème eggs are on the store shelf’s and some 2000 years ago Jesus Christ was nailed to a cross where he died in horrible fashion for our sin, then three days later rose and returned to heaven to make room for us. It's a cheery story really, one that obviously means that we should all dress up like spies and run around a church like loonies for 2 weeks with a bunch of primary school kids. This is essentially the premise behind the annual 'Mission Impossible' schools Easter presentation.
Mission Impossible is the yearly Easter presentation that we get to put on. We get year 6's from all over the Southport area to take a few hours out of their day and come down to Scarisbrick New Road Baptist Church, aka our spy headquarters to help us investigate the life, death and resurrection of Jesus via a series of fun 'zones' that range from hologram rooms to re-enactments of Jesus being arrested in the garden.
Generally speaking I'm absolutely terrified of children. They're short and have too much energy and are often times hard to direct, but for whatever reason I absolutely love doing schools work. For the last two years now the Christmas and Easter presentations have been pretty big highlights for me. Moonlighting as Agent Bowie from 'The America' and getting to present the Easter story to 1000+ kids. Of course just showing the kids a good time and getting them out of school for a few hours isn't really worth much, but this year before we sent the kids back to their schools we had every kid fill out a little questionnaire form, one of the questions was 'Do you believe that Jesus died and rose again? If so why?', and seeing that by the end of the whole thing most of the kids really did understand the gospel was amazing.
-Jordan Nygren, SMC 2nd year
Mission Impossible ... Sometimes that's what it can feel like when trying to spread the gospel knowing the great need there is in this world for God. Praise God though that through the simplicity and power that there is in his word and in the testament of what he did for us, it is very much Mission Possible. We set out to have these primary school kids come to us and learn about how God has redeemed them through his son Jesus Christ... and I very much feel that the job was done. I loved how fun, vibrant and interactive it all was, how the kids could find out the truth for themselves, without us railroading the gospel down their ears. It was them that discovered. It was them that separated the truth from fiction. It will be there choice whether or not they believe, but I firmly feel we laid the facts out in a heart piercing yet simple way, just the way these kids needed it.
-David Gillies, SMC 2nd year
I love the opportunity SMC gets every year to become secret agents and tell kids about the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. For two weeks in March I was Agent CoffeeStick leading the children in my team around to different stations to investigate the evidence and discover the truth. I never thought that being a secret agent would be so much fun, but it is when you do it with great people, for great people and for the greatest purpose, that being – to make Him known and save some souls. The best times were those “light bulb” moments when the kids realised that Jesus did in fact die on the cross, but was raised from the dead and that the reason He did all that was the love He has for us all. I pray that the seeds sown into the young lives of the children will bear fruit in its own time.
-Kadri Kadastik, SMC 2nd year
