3rd Sunday of the Year!

The Lord has blessed us with some wonderful Sunday services in this New Year. Junior church is overflowing with kids and when more come, we will just keep packing them in. =) Last Sunday we had 144 kids in attendance. I was literally exhausted when I got finished teaching. Over course we had them all in the same room, 8th grade down to 2 year olds. I don’t think we could have fit another person in. It was so packed!

We made some changes this Sunday. We split the babies off and I only kept in my room 1st -8th grade. I’m glad we did because we had 109 in attendance today. It has been pouring down rain for the last four days. Really 109 kids with it pouring down rain outside was an excellent attendance. The only trouble we had in the classroom was the rain beating on the tin roof of the room we were in. There were about five times I had to stop teaching because I could not talk louder than the rain. I heard they had to stop a couple of times in the adult preaching service as well. =)

We are moving along in are series “Living God’s Way”. So far we have talked about Anger or Self-control, Fear or Faith, and today Selfishness or Generosity. It has been great going through the Bible looking at what God’s Word says and learning about people who demonstrated these different attitudes. The kids seem to really be learning. My prayer is that it will go from a head knowledge to being put to practice in their every day lives. We still have 9 more lessons to go.

We are also working up to our Annual Missions Conference which will be the first weekend of February. With that in mind the kids have been learning about John Paton who was a missionary to the New Hebrides Islands. Our story ended today with John and his wife getting to the Islands. In the process of drying out some things that had gotten wet John was distracted by the Chief and the natives were stealing the stuff off the clothes line. =) The wonders of missionary life. I’ve never had stuff stolen off my clothes line, but I have had to stop teaching because the rain was too loud. ;)

Like I mentioned earlier, it has been raining for the last four days almost nonstop. What a blessing! Things were getting so dry. Some of our church people lost their gardens that they had planted and the grass for their cattle was dried up and gone. The rain has been a real blessing, but with it comes flooding. I told my kids to be careful going home today after church.

I pray you all had a wonderful Sunday as well!