It all started with Sunday School

I am excited about the beginning of Sunday School. I hope that you were here this morning and that you will make plans to be here regularly for Sunday School.

The following is given as an encouragement regarding Sunday School.

IT ALL STARTED WITH SUNDAY SCHOOL

In 1858, Mr. Kimball, a Sunday School teacher, went to visit a Boston shoe clerk who had come to Sunday School. That young shoe clerk came to Jesus Christ for salvation and God worked in his life as went on to become a famous evangelist who reached thousands for Jesus Christ. The clerk's name was Dwight L. Moody.

The story does not end with Moody, however, as the influence of Mr. Moody continued to have an impact. As Mr. Moody visited England in 1879, Frederick B. Meyer, a pastor of a small church in England became convinced of the need to be more evangelistic and God began to do great things in and through his ministry as well.

Pastor Meyer was preaching to an American College campus some years later and brought to Christ a young man by the name of J. Wilbur Chapman.

Mr. Chapman, began to be involved in the Young Men's Christian Association (in the days when the focus of the YMCA was evangelism) and employed a former baseball player to do evangelistic work. That baseball player was Billy Sunday, who became one of the most well- known evangelists of American history.

The chain could continue indefinitely if we were able to go back and look at all of those who were won to Christ or motivated for Christ through the influence of these men - and it all started with Sunday School.

In Christ,

Pastor Frank Sansone