greetings from VBS
Well, tonight was the last night I actually had to teach here at Vacation Bible School. I've decided that 5th- and 6th-graders are really not a bad age group. I've enjoyed these kids. (They're off doing their craft right now, while I finish up some copies for tomorrow's newsletter assembly, hence the online-ness at VBS.) Very likely I will be teaching the same age group in Sunday School starting this fall.
Apparently I've been doing an all right job, here. When one of the girls found out that I'd probably be her teacher if she comes to Sunday School this fall, she got very excited, which made me feel good.
I always shied away from teaching Sunday School, partly because of working nights (it was a struggle just to get TO church half the time) and partly because I didn't think I'd be any good at it. Since one of my two biggest issues has been eliminated, I volunteered to teach VBS as a sort of trial run to see about eliminating the other.
Surprisingly, it turns out that I'm actually really good at this sort of thing, provided I'm not working with noisy little kids who jump on me. Tonight I brought up something that Pastor says was very deep. I asked the kids if they know what God looks like. One, correctly, pointed out that nobody knows what God looks like.
"Well," said I, "maybe that means that the rest of us shouldn't judge each other by our appearances either. Maybe the person you make fun of for being ugly looks just like God."
Boy, did that freak them out. XD
Apparently I've been doing an all right job, here. When one of the girls found out that I'd probably be her teacher if she comes to Sunday School this fall, she got very excited, which made me feel good.
I always shied away from teaching Sunday School, partly because of working nights (it was a struggle just to get TO church half the time) and partly because I didn't think I'd be any good at it. Since one of my two biggest issues has been eliminated, I volunteered to teach VBS as a sort of trial run to see about eliminating the other.
Surprisingly, it turns out that I'm actually really good at this sort of thing, provided I'm not working with noisy little kids who jump on me. Tonight I brought up something that Pastor says was very deep. I asked the kids if they know what God looks like. One, correctly, pointed out that nobody knows what God looks like.
"Well," said I, "maybe that means that the rest of us shouldn't judge each other by our appearances either. Maybe the person you make fun of for being ugly looks just like God."
Boy, did that freak them out. XD