Aside from serving in children's ministry for many years in local churches, I have also taught the ABC's and 1,2,3's.  Sometime ago, while writing jotting some notes on a classroom blackboard (with chalk in hand) the Lord impressed upon my heart that kids need to be in church just as much as they need to be in school. Academic education in itself is not sufficient for the spiritually hungry soul of a child.  This is why I have never given up on my entrepreneurial calling from the Lord. My prayer over the years has been that church playhouse products would serve as a tool to turn the hearts of parents back to the Lord. Once parents are back in church, the children are sure to follow. "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it" KJV Proverbs 22:6.