A reason to Celebrate

Today was our Holiday Club Celebration Service following Polar Explorers last week.  We had a full church and lots of children came too.  We had a great time of praise and worship as we reflected back over the week.  We heard from the reflective time when the children voiced their own ideas about the characters they had learnt about during the week.  We had some of the children's prayers read out as well.  I summed up the week and the daily themes too as well as bringing in the theme for the day, we had Peter - never too many mistakes, Stephen - never too ordinary, Philip - never too near or far, Paul - never too bad, Timothy - never too young and today Lydia - never too unlikely.  Each of these people had either met Jesus, had an encounter with him or heard about him and they had decided to follow him.  In following him they said sorry for the wrongs they had done, put their faith and trust in him and decided to follow him.  God then poured out his Spirit on them which equipped them for his service.  We too can be like this none of us is perfect we all make mistakes, do bad things, are unlikely characters for God to use, we might be too young or old and just ordinary BUT God can use you just as you are so why not ask him right now!