Joel reports that his church alone has more than 40 house churches, pastored mainly by trained laypeople. Attendance in a single house church can top 200. Prayer houses also disciple new believers. For children ages 3 through 14, weekly meetings similar to Sunday school are educating the youngest Cubans in spiritual matters that the government didn't want their parents to learn when they were the same age. The key to Cuba's church and society may rest in the hands of lay teachers who minister to children.
Children know nothing of the Bible.
If we don't attend to them, when they get older it becomes harder to reach them. Children's churches aren't new. Now there are more of them. The home of Roberto, a pastor ministering in a coastal town, is filled with Bibles, study guides, Gospels of John and Josh McDowell books that came in a container in conjunction with the Evangelical Celebration. Bibles weren't scarce before the Celebration, but even though now they're more plentiful, there's still a crunch for believers to get them.