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"When are you all going to let me get saved?"

—Jim Hunter, 5, Evansville, Ind., from the back seat of the car. Back home, the family gathered around the Scriptures, and Jim bowed his head and asked Jesus into his heart.

From babyhood, we've told our kids, "Mommy loves you, Daddy loves you, but Jesus loves you most of all." After telling our 3 1/2-year -old daughter the litany for the thousandth time, she said, "I know, I know. Jesus loves me the most. He lives in my heart. Mommy, does He live in your heart, too?"

Gina Lawton, Oxford, Mich.

When I was 32 I felt a yearning to renew my promise to God to be all that he wanted me to be, as a wife, mother, and daughter—in thought, in word, and in every action. He changed my heart.

Soon after, my daughter watched me openly praising God one Sunday morning at church. At first I noticed a defiant 9-year-old standing next to me, partly amused and partly embarrassed by her mother's tears. But later, as I glanced over, she was standing reverently, listening to the music, eyes shut, a tear or two hanging on her eyelashes. I realized she had asked Jesus to come into her heart when on the way home she said, "I feel so pure and clean, Mom, as if all my sins have been washed away."

Monique Mcgregor Ambrose, Costa Mesa, Calif.

The 5-year-old that knelt beside the couch April 19, 1982, was my firstborn son. I was hesitant to lead him to Christ because of his young age and my insecurity about my ability to do it right. But he knew Jesus was knocking and was insistent it was time. This past summer, that son served between college semesters as a home missionary, sharing Jesus with young children.

Lettie J. Kirkpatrick ,Cleveland, Tenn.

I tucked 3-year-old Jessica into my old bed during a visit to Grandma's house. Spying a cross on the wall, she asked, "Why is that up there?"

"That reminds us that Jesus loved us so much he died on a cross to forgive us for doing wrong."

"Why did he have to do that?"

"So we can be with him in heaven when we die," I concluded, ready to move on to tucking in her brother.

Jessica wanted to know more. "How can we get to heaven?"

"Well, we have to agree with Jesus that we did wrong, ask him to forgive us for that, and invite him into our lives to be our King."

Jessica took me by surprise: "I want to go to heaven." I was stunned that such a young child could comprehend what took me eighteen years to understand. I asked if she wanted to pray to Jesus and ask him to come into her heart and be her King. She simply replied yes.

After our prayer, her 6-year-old brother Jason came to her side and crowed, "Now we're all Christians, Jessica! Jesus is in all of us!"

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