What Can Happen in 15 Days?

A glimpse inside 15 days with Walk Thru the Bible’s Global Children’s Team

Two weeks can disappear pretty quickly. Meetings. Emails. School schedules. Errands. The everyday things that fill our calendars.

But recently, Terry Broberg walked our team back through the first 15 days of September and showed us what Walk Thru the Bible’s Global Children’s Team had been doing around the world. Not the whole year. Not even the whole month. Just 15 days. And honestly, it was pretty fun to see.

Nigeria. Bangladesh. Ukraine. India. Bolivia. The Philippines. England. Colombia. Village schools. Public schools. Boarding schools. Summer camps. A patio. A tree. And indigenous leaders preparing to carry biblical teaching toward the Amazon.

Here’s what 15 days looked like.

Those Paper Crowns in Nigeria

September 1: We started the month in Nigeria, where children were learning God’s Word in a village school. The first thing Terry noticed in the pictures was all those paper crowns.

There was a reason they looked familiar. About four years earlier, while helping train teachers in Nigeria, Terry had given the group paper crowns to use with the children. One of the local leaders apparently liked the idea enough to keep using it. Years later, picture after picture still shows children wearing those crowns during his lessons.

Terry laughed as he shared the story. It is a small detail, but a meaningful one. Something introduced during a training years ago is still being carried forward to help another group of children engage with God’s Word.

The Message Starts Moving

As the calendar moved forward, so did the reports from a children’s ministry team that, as Terry put it, “literally spans the globe.”

September 3: Thomas Sarkar was teaching boys in a hostel in Bangladesh. In that part of the world, a hostel functions more like a boarding school, and Thomas was there using OT Live with the students.

September 4: In Ukraine, teachers were being trained in NT Live using materials translated into Ukrainian. Even amid the ongoing war, ministry partners continue moving from place to place, developing new partnerships, and creating opportunities for people to engage with God’s Word.

September 6: The story returned to Bangladesh, but this time Thomas was not doing the teaching. His “Joshua” was.

Leaders throughout South Asia are encouraged to develop a “Joshua”—someone they are intentionally training to come behind them, much like Joshua followed Moses. In the photo Terry shared, that next leader was already out on a patio in the middle of town teaching children himself.

September 7: Another update came from Bolivia. Pablo had recently been trained in Walk Thru the Bible materials through trainer Tim Bleyker. He returned home, gathered a group of children under a tree, and began teaching them OT Live.

That is the multiplication we hope to see. Training reaches one leader, that leader carries it home, and biblical teaching moves into another group, another church, another community, and another generation.

What Happens on an “Ordinary” Day?

Not every date on Terry’s calendar came with a new photograph. On September 5, he joked that nobody had sent him anything to show. But that did not mean ministry had stopped.

That was the slide Terry showed instead. Across the 2025–26 ministry year, Walk Thru the Bible’s children’s ministry reached an average of more than 4,200 children every day.

The same reminder appeared again on September 9 and September 12. No dramatic photograph was necessary. Somewhere around the world, thousands more children were encountering biblical truth.

“Pretty fantastic,” Terry said, “when you stop and think about it.”

Using What’s in Their Hands

September 4: During teacher training in India, a leader named Amrutha needed a crown of thorns for an illustration. So she made one—from toothpicks.

September 13: Another photo arrived from an Indian village. A local teacher had created her own colorful visual chart to help teach the children. Terry explained that some of the villages being served have had little or no formal children’s ministry curriculum available, so local teachers learn to adapt, create, and use what they have.

“They just have to do what they have to do,” Terry told the team.

And they do.

September 11: In the Philippines, children participated in a Vacation Bible School using the Timothy children’s Biblical Character Series material, completely translated into Tagalog.

Terry especially enjoys seeing what happens after a resource leaves our hands. As he put it during chapel, it is “so fun to see” resources get translated, adapted, and put to work in communities around the world.

From One Classroom to Another

September 14: Photos arrived from Ukraine showing children participating in Walk Thru the Bible teaching inside a public school.

Terry was struck by how familiar the scene looked. He told our team that if he sat down with those children, they might not be able to speak the same language, but they looked just like the children he teaches on Sunday mornings at his own church.

And yet their daily world has been deeply affected by war.

That same day, the team received an unusually rare photograph from a public school in England. One child was participating in the lesson with a prop sword.

Terry could not resist having a little fun with that one. He joked that he would never give a child a sword while teaching because he “wouldn’t want to turn” his back on him.

The classrooms change. The resources change. The circumstances change. But the mission remains the same.

Some Updates Carry a Different Weight

September 8 brought a more personal update. Terry paused the ministry highlights to ask our team to pray for Juvy, a longtime children’s ministry leader in the Philippines who has been battling cancer.

The way Terry spoke about her made it clear that this was not an update about a distant ministry contact. He called Juvy one of our “really special sisters” and described her affectionately as a “spitfire.” With a smile, he joked that half the clothes in his wardrobe that came from the Philippines were probably gifts from her.

The recent news was difficult: her cancer had metastasized to her lungs. So for a moment, the update was not about a training, a new resource, or another number.

It was about a sister in Christ whom this team loves. And together, we prayed.

Ukraine: Another Generation Steps Forward

September 15: Summer camp reports arrived from Ukraine. The ministry team had trained and prepared for 43 camps, but as the war intensified, government restrictions closed an entire area of the country to camps.

Even so, 29 camps were held.

That last number especially stood out. Hundreds of young people who participated in the camps are already volunteering to return and help lead the next group.

The story is not ending with the children who were reached this year. Another generation is already stepping forward.

Into the Amazon

September 15 also brought an update from Colombia. Indigenous leaders beyond the Andes Mountains were preparing to carry biblical teaching into communities throughout the upper Amazon region.

Behind the group in one photograph was a poster. Translated into English, it read:

“Today, we are sending out a group of missionaries with a message capable of transforming the entire world.”

Terry looked at the image and summed it up in three words:

“Really, really special.”

And That Was 15 Days

Those stories covered just the first half of one month. At the end of his update, Terry pulled the lens back and showed our team what those individual days become over the course of a year.

But after seeing the stories first, the statistics feel different.

Those numbers now have paper crowns in them. Toothpicks. Handmade charts. Translated lessons. Public-school classrooms. Summer camps. Shade trees. Faithful teachers. Local leaders. And young “Joshuas” being prepared to carry the work forward.

That is what global impact looks like up close.

Go. Make Disciples. Teach.

Terry closed his chapel update by bringing the team back to Jesus’ words in Matthew 28:18–20. He drew attention to four words and ideas in the Great Commission:

After seeing what happened in just 15 days, those words feel remarkably concrete. We see them in a village school in Nigeria, under a tree in Bolivia, inside classrooms in Ukraine, and among indigenous leaders preparing to serve communities near the Amazon.

We see people going, teaching, making disciples, developing new leaders, and trusting Christ to remain with His people wherever He sends them.

The Same Mission

Fifteen days can tell us a lot, but they are still only 15 days.

We are deeply grateful for the local teachers, ministry leaders, trainers, churches, volunteers, prayer partners, and supporters whose faithfulness is woven into every one of these stories. God continues to work through ordinary people who faithfully carry His Word into the places He has given them.

Different countries. Different circumstances. Different classrooms. The same mission: helping people everywhere live God’s Word.