Kids Say The Darndest Things

Hmm... I think i am not gifted in children ministry, at least for this moment. The more I teach them the more I doubt if they understand what I taught. It became so clear to me that children ministry is not the one that I would involve myself in especially when my church is organising a children holiday camp this coming Wed-Sat. I totally dont feel interested in teaching them a lesson not to mention to teach them singing or dancing. But thank God that most of the women in my church loves this ministry and willing to involve themselves, really salute them.

Apart from that, this morning I was in charge of children sunday school. It was such an accomplishment to myself that the kids were not really out of control. Why I say so? It is because we only have one class of sunday school due to the number of kids attending sunday school. Apparently, this morning has 11 of them and the age range is from 3 to 11. Hellooo... I am out of idea how to teach them. From the age where they dont understand a single thing that you said, let alone responding to you, to the age when they have their own judgement and mindset. To make things worse, there were actually two little sisters who like to scream on top of their voice out of nothing, 3 brothers who can't even sit on their chairs for more than a second, a girl who talks and sing in a very loud voice and another girl who likes to gossip and talks bad things about other kids. How to teach? how to teach? And we have only 2 teachers to help out. Hmm... I think should consider letting the younger kids do colouring while conducting bible story telling, writing bible verses, singing and crafting to the older kids. At least the age gap is not that huge.

Anyway, back to the sunday school this morning, there was actually one kid who just start crying out of sudden. No one touch her, no one do anything to her at all. It scared me. Asked her what happened, she doesn't even tell ( can't blame, she is only 3). But later the day, I approached her mom to see what happened only to understand that maybe there was someone taking away her things and she did not know how to express, so she just cried. Interesting! but sweating! In another incident, another girl started to cry softly and keep saying 'I dont want, i dont want!". I asked her what she didn't want and she just kept repeating herself. Apart from that, the rest of them were quite co-operative other than one of them accidentally spilled glue over the floor. The accomplishment is that the three brothers managed to behave themselves throughout the service.

By God's grace, although I am not gifted to teach a big group of kids but personally i love to talk to kids especially those in the range of four to six years old when they started to ask extraordinary questions that you might not be able to answer. I believe that we, adults, have things which we can learn from kids too. And I would definitely love to have our own kids if God graciously gives us, not now, but in God's timing.