Years ago, Belinda Stroud began to have a burden.
“I kept thinking about how the next generation doesn’t understand the Cooperative Program,” said Stroud, a children’s ministry specialist for the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions. “I just wanted to educate them, and I felt like by educating children we could also educate their parents.”
The result was God at Work, a four-week study for kids that brings the CP to life. It explores the way the CP — Southern Baptists’ giving channel to support missions efforts together — reaches people in Alabama, in America and around the world.
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“We really wanted to show how it does impact right where we are but it’s impacting far away as well,” Stroud said.
And the timing is perfect — the CP is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.
“We really are better together,” she said. “We wanted to make sure we knew God called all of us to the Great Commission, to be missionaries right where we are, all ages.”
Adaptable, practical study
Stroud said the study can be plugged in and used in a number of ways — as a four-week program, a summer program, a drop-in to an existing kids’ program or a Vacation Bible School emphasis.
First Baptist Church Montgomery piloted the God at Work study back in fall 2024 with their Royal Ambassadors, a missions education program for school-age and teen boys.
Chris Mills, student missions mobilizer for the SBOM and RA leader at FBC Montgomery, said he appreciated that the curriculum was “simple but also thorough.”
“It’s adaptable and provides a big picture of the impact CP makes here in our state and across the globe,” he said. “Each lesson provides some practical takeaways for kids and doesn’t require supplies that you have to go out of your way to find. I’m grateful for the effort Belinda put into this. It is something we will use again.”
For more information or to download the God at Work study, visit kidzlinkal.org/resources.
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