The Vision:

  Statistics tell us that the vast majority of people who get saved do so before age 18, and the majority of those get saved before age 12. Jesus did not say for children to become like adults to get saved, but for adults to become as little children (Mark 10:15). 

  God wants His house to be filled. Go after everyone you can find – and out into the highways and hedges. Compel them to come in. God gets no glory from an empty pew, an empty chair, an empty classroom, or an empty bus. 

  The bus ministry itself is an area of service; but it also involves teachers and other people in the work of the ministry. 

 Bus kids have parents, grandparents, siblings, etc that can be reached with the gospel through their children and often become faithful, serving families in the church. 

 James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. 

  (Jude 22), ministering to those who can do nothing in return. Luke 14:13-14 But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: (14) And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just. 

   In our society, many children will have no Christian influence at all unless we can either reach them with their parents – or reach them without their parents. Those who ride our bus will be cared about by dedicated, kind, Christian people; they will hear prayer; they will hear the gospel; they will hear Bible lessons and messages.