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| We always need an exercise |
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| Still Tired? |
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| How much time to find the page? |
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| Learning the parable of the talents |
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| Preparing the "Eraser" skit |
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| What I suppose to say again? (David and crew in "Talent Show" Skit) |
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| Dedicated camera boy catching the preparation of "the binocular" skit |
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| Here is the all girl team produced the best skit of the day, "Get to know Uncle" |
Thank you, Chris. Your blog post, which catches today’s bible story precisely, makes me feel much better now :-)
ReplyDeleteToday is that kind of day when you thought you had planned everything, but nothing really seems gone the way you had planned. It started right from the beginning. Many children seemed very tired today. They kept yawning and looked weary, even the jumping exercise or the fast pace worship songs can’t bring them back. At the point, I couldn't help but asking them “when did you went to bed last night?” :-(
Anyway, the short movie “Parable of the talents” finally caught their attention. I thought it is very good topic to teach them, not just help them see their talents from God and use it when they can, more importantly, I want to teach them to be faithful, in the term they can understand, to be responsible. I have to say, I fail the task miserably. I asked both my kids David and Crystal afterward, none of them caught that point :-( So I said to David, “How come you didn't get that, I used your favorite hockey game to tell you about being responsible and being a reliable player!” He said, “You talked about Hockey? I don’t remember that.” Urrrrrrr, it is time to pray to God for His wisdom :-)
Well, then we moved on to bible activities. We prepared some skits for children to act on, hopefully reinforcing what we just told them. Usually, we have one skit, and some of the older kids play and show to everyone. This time, we tried something new, i.e. have all ~20 kids involve different skits, and they all get a chance to play out, and let older kids have some responsibility to take care of the younger ones. I think the older kids did a terrific jobs helping and organizing the younger ones, especially Sarah, volunteered helping four k-1 kids!
However, the skits themselves didn’t run very smoothly, partially due to the short time we have, partially due to children were not very comfortable doing the skit just based on their understanding rather than reading or memorizing lines. We did four skits, finally, the last group, an all girl team did a good job playing out a skit without looking at their lines.
Well, I surely have many lessons to learn from today’s experience, and hopefully we can do better in to days to come. The good thing is that the younger ones will stay in the children’s group for a while, we have more time to help them learning God’s word; for the older ones, they will be in better hands in youth group soon :-)
Blessings,
Zhaoyang