So what else is keeping us busy, and a little overwhelmed and confused down here? Well, it really is the same story for us since we've come down here. We've mentioned it before, but we have surprisingly found ourselves in the middle of a large group of young kids from the neighborhood who have picked our house as a spot to always want to come and play. In many ways this is great, but at the same time it can quickly become quite overwhelming at times.
The confused part comes in when you add to this that our church, seeing this opportunity, has decided to start Bible Clubs for the kids on Wednesday nights. Awesome, but we are gaining a new appreciation for the difficulty of this as we have been asked to coordinate it (man, give me 20 college students any day over this). How do you take this group of 20 kids and get them to settle down for a Bible lesson? What kind of lessons keep them interested and what do these young kids who are so tough in many ways, but so young in many others, need to hear? Add to that the teachers are students from CIU who are in their first teaching experiences. So, although they are doing well overall, we are helping them learn as well and trying to balance when to step in.
So, some pretty cool stuff...just a little (or a lot) stretching at times.
Speaking of overall (using it above reminded me), Kelly was quite humorous today as we prepared to go out to watch the basketball game. She, quite the little Spartan, wanted to wear her MSU cheerleader outfit, but she faced the dilemma that she also wanted to wear her overalls. No problem for a creative 3 year old. She decided to wear the cheerleader outfit along with the overalls...turned into underalls in this case. It was quite the unique choice and I'm sure caught some stares at the restaurant...but hey...she's three so it's all fun.
Go green! Good to read from y'all again :) How can I be praying for you besides kiddos in the neighborhood?
ReplyDeleteWow, sounds like God is really using both of you. I´m not surprised that you prefer college students ;). One thing that I´m currently learning is how much it helps to have a curriculum (I´m coming off of about 6 weeks of planning a Spanish class from scratch). Have you looked into the SAY Yes! curriculum used by Here´s Life Inner City and Campus Crusade? We used it when I was on summer project and I know that at least the unit that we did touched on a lot of themes that were good for tough kids who were learning about God´s love, and it included fun activities like obstacle courses and crafts.
ReplyDelete--Megan Sutton