3/18 LET GOD CLEAN AWAY OUR SINS - by Sarah Yi

Today was the day after St. Patrick's Day. In the Children's Chapel, our topic was "How Beautiful the World Is". This tied into last week, which was God made the Heavens and Earth. In class, we read two stories about how God made the world and what was in it. The two stories we read were from Genesis 1:26-31, and Genesis 2:8-17. In both of these stories, we read that God created the birds, fish, plants, Adam, Eve, etc. The memory verse for today was written in Genesis 1:31. God made all that he had made and it was very good. For an activity, the kids had a picture of a circle, representing the Earth, and we had to draw what God had created. Some people drew people, some people drew plants, and others drew all! Then, we all said which picture we like the best. The only thing was, you couldn't choose your own picture. Last, we had a prayer and got ready for worship.

In worship, our teacher was Zhao-Rou A Yi, since Zhao-Yang shu shu wasn't here. We sang three songs. The songs were: I Will Not Be Afraid, He Knows My Name, and 在你宝座前. We had no pianist today. Our theme today was John the Baptist. The verses we read were Matthew 3:1-6. It talked about how John the Baptist washed the people's sin away in the Jordan River. After, Zhou-Rou A Yi asked for three volunteers. Rebecca, Joshua, and Timothy volunteered. In front of them were three bowls of dirt. The dirt was like their sin. The first sinner was Timothy, who didn't share. He had to put his hand in the bowl and mush the dirt on his hand. Everyone was grossed out. The second sinner was Joshua, and his sin was cheating to win. Joshua did the same thing as Timothy. He rolled his hand in dirt. The last sinner was Rebecca, who didn't really look like she wanted to volunteer anymore. Rebecca did the same thing as Timothy and Joshua. She put her hand in the dirt. In the end, all three volunteers' hands were all dirty. Then, Zhou-Rou A Yi pulled out a bucket of water. She said to the three kids to wash their hands in it. While the kids were washing their hands, Zhou-Rou A Yi told us how the water was like the baptism water. So Rebecca, Timothy, and Joshua were all being washed away from their sin. After the activity, everyone had to write "This week it bothered me when..." When everyone was done, We all put it in the dirty water from the experiment. This meant all those bad things on the paper was sins. I think the kids had lots of fun today.

After worship, the kids went downstairs to eat lunch. Later, we had Chinese School. The children had a great Sunday, and had a joyful morning. Let's hope they enjoyed the rest of the day!!

 Learning Chinese lyrics...

at least we know what 哈利路亚 means :)

What made you guys so happy?

our brave volunteers!

Working on "This week, it bothers when...."

Lord, take these awful feeling of [hurt, fear, shame] and wash it away...
replace them with your Love!