Church Bus Riders

Several years ago before I became a mother I kept my hours busy by doing things for other peoples children....and I loved it. One area that I particularly enjoyed was taking children to church. My cousin and I used to gather up everyones children throughout the neighborhood and haul them all to church. I think church is a very important thing in a childs life. I put a huge emphasis on it in my home and I dont let much get in the way of us being in Gods house at the appointed time. It is my hearts desire that each child we bring into our home hear about the love of Jesus from me first. I want to be the first one to tell them they need to accept Christ as their Savior and I would love to be the one to pray with them and see them accept him into their lives. So many children never go to church so therefore my cousin and I took a lot of little street kids to church over the years. The numbers grew to such an amount I dont think I could remember them all. Every once in a while we run into someone who will say hey Mrs Mary dont you remember me??? You used to take me to church! What a great feeling comes over me when I hear those words. Today one of the little girls who used to ride that famous church bus with my cousin and I as we hauled them off to church week after week contacted me and asked if I would consider babysitting her little baby. What an honor! She came over and spent some time with us tonite and I looked into the face of that beautiful little angel she was carrying in the tote seat and we had time to talk a little and I made it a point to remind her that the church is still there, I made sure I mentioned Jesus before she walked out the door...just a few suttle mentions that will hopefully plant a seed. I saw the look of interest on her face when I reminded her how much we would love for her to come back to church and bring her little one. She will be back next week to drop the baby off to me while she goes to work.....who knows maybe we will start a second generation church bus?