Do you have children? I do—four of them, ages ten, eight, seven and five. Each has his or her own talents, but one superpower they all share is a knack for turning things upside down. Boxes of Legos? Inverted. Tubs of crayons? Flipped. Open-face peanut butter sandwiches? Bottoms up.

As proud as I am of my little flipsters, it turns out that this capacity for overturning things is not unique to them. Ever since kids were invented, they have been taking hold of the neat, tidy, dull world around them and turning it upside down.

In honor of this propensity to invert, we have flipped the last 17 pages of this magazine upside down for our fifth annual Kids’ Special Edition.

Our AFM missionary kids are essential to the success of our church-planting work as they blaze a trail for their families into the hearts of unreached people, overturning barriers of suspicion, fear and prejudice just by being their energetic, lovable selves. And the young readers of Adventist Frontiers are equally essential to the future work of completing Christ’s Great Commission as the Holy Spirit guides their hearts and minds toward lives of service.

Young people, we salute you! Go and turn the world upside down for your Lord!

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