Kids Learning How to Seek, Save, and Send
“We first launched the new program at the 2025 General Council in Orlando, to encourage youngsters to celebrate our core vision to seek, save and send,” says Wilfredo “Choco” De Jesús, U.S. Missions executive director. “We wanted to inspire and train our little ones to be part of the solution to reach the entire U.S with the gospel.”
AGUSM has expanded its Seek, Save and Send banner for kids. Seek means everyone needs to know Jesus and be in church. Save means everyone needs to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior. Send means missionaries are sent by God and assisted by the church to share the gospel.
KOM is gaining traction among parents and kids ministry (kidmin) leaders, even from overseas, via the free downloads page on KOM’s website. Easy-access downloads include the 15- to 18-minute story videos, lesson plans, song routines, a power point template, and more.
Production of the four-episode series began in December 2024 when Alexandria De Jesús Gomez, an accomplished songwriter of more than 50 adult songs, a scriptwriter, and former director of operations of New Life Covenant Church in Chicago, was chosen for the project.
“Songwriting for me, always starts with a simple prayer: ‘Holy Spirit lead me.’ I never want to write from my own strength alone. I want every lyric to breathe His presence,” she says.
In creating KOM’s seven songs, the message of Zephaniah 3:17 has impacted her writing. “The Lord delights in us, with and through songs,” she says. “We should do the same and ask for the songs in heaven.”
Gomez also questioned herself, “What lyrics would my 9-year-old son James and my 6-year-old daughter Charlie like to sing that is centered around Jesus?”
Additionally, she has weaved a gospel message throughout the songs and video scripts, especially for non-churched kids.
The production process, equal to professional TV standards, took about six months.
Set in a high-tech spaceship mission command center, the videos feature a team of four kids (Liam, Ella, Tyler, Jasmine) and their new friend Smush, a jolly pug dog, who is AGUSM's official kids’ mascot. Together they explore exciting and fun tasks in the written curriculum, crafts and hands-on activities rooted in Scripture.
Little Smush challenges the team with his surprising wisdom. “No matter how small we are, we can make a big impact for Jesus,” he stresses. “1 Timothy 4:12 in the Bible tells us not to let anyone look down on us because we are young.”
Lesson one begins with the team singing an upbeat worship song. The lesson’s main theme, “Here I am, send me” is based on Isaiah 6:8. Music routines highlight the gospel messages.
In a group setting viewing the video, the kidsmin leader says, “When Jesus calls, I can say, here I am, send me.” The leader calls out again, “Can you say that with me, one more time loud and proud?”
The kids are asked to rise and shout, “Here I am! Send me!” Potential mission projects are suggested such as helping someone who is sad, telling someone that Jesus loves them, picking up neighborhood trash, or praying for someone who is sick.
Crafts and games are related to AGUSM ministries. Building mission bracelets with beads is a winner with each bead color representing different AGUSM ministries – Adult & Teen Challenge, Chaplaincy ministries, Chi Alpha Campus Ministries U.S.A., Church Mobilization, Intercultural Ministries, Gospel Outreach Ministries, and Youth Alive. Kids also search a U.S. missions map and pick states and pray for the missionaries who live and serve there.
Every lesson has a time for prayer, snacks, Bible stories, and memory verse review.
The remaining episodes are: 2. It’s Better to Give Than to Receive; 3. Seek and Save; and 4. The Good Samaritan.
Ash Grove Assembly of God in Missouri, a missionary-supporting church, ran the KOM program this summer in its fellowship hall.
“The kids were super engaged and hooked on the neat videos,” says children’s pastor Ashley B. Grant. “They sat still and loved the singing.”
Grant’s 10 year-old son Callum returned the next week repeating the “Seek, Save and Send” song and with mission-minded ideas of his own. The kids particularly enjoyed one of the projects: filling blessing bags with a bottle of water, a lemonade packet, granola bar, crackers, toothpaste, and a toothbrush. The bags were given to homeless individuals in downtown Springfield.
“Across the United States people are in need,” says De Jesús. “The poor and the hurting long for help, many don’t know the good news about Jesus. And that’s why Kidz on Mission was created.”
