God has blessed City Impact with amazing volunteers. Mikki, a volunteer for Bible Club, helps a fourth grade student focus on setting a goal that represents sacrificial love. The young student struggles to understand the meaning of showing sacrificial love. Mikki does a wonderful job explaining that sacrificial love is about doing something for the good of others and not for your own good. As a result, the student sets a goal to help her grandmother with chores and treat her with respect. The fourth grade has focused on writing specific goals showing love towards others.

“Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.”1 John 4:7

“Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.”Ephesians 4:2

5th Grade Prayer

City Impact values the importance of prayer within the Impact Leadership Academy and Bible Club programs. Previously in Bible Club, the 5th grade classroom practiced upward, inward, and outward prayer. The following are prayers uplifted to God by students and volunteers in the 5th grade classroom: a young lady asked God for forgiveness for being upset with her sister, another student prays for his grandma to have a successful surgery, a classroom volunteer asks God to forgive her for not spending as much time reading the Bible as she should, and a young man thanks God for how awesome he his.

"Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 4:6-7).

Power of Prayer

Recently in Bible Club, a young student shared a story with her class about witnessing God’s grace through prayer. She told the class that her mother had been praying for eight years that the young girl’s uncle would invite Jesus Christ into his life. The uncle was married to a Non-Christian woman and over time had strayed from his faith. As the young student continued to share her story, she explained that after the many prayers by her mother, God answered. The uncle recently started going to church again. It is amazing how a 3rd grader can see the change God has brought to her uncle’s life through prayer.


"Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus" (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18).