If you have the time and or interest, you should cursor on down to part 1 and work your way up so you understand where I'm coming from.
There are so many other things that I was looking forward to doing as co-pastor of my church. However, I cannot escape the priority of children. Mainly because God is slapping me, but also because our children's ministries coordinator moved away yesterday. Now there are vacancies which people so far are not jumping at. And so, it falls on me. That's fine as long as I have oodles of help.
Did you know that this is the year for children and youth in my denomination? I think this is ridiculous. That tells me that kids will get our attention and maybe some priority for churches for a time until the next designated year comes. I mean really, shouldn't every year be the year of children and youth? Shoudn't every year be equally intentional?
And so I embrace it ...
BRING IT ON!
Monday, June 20, 2005
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you're right, giftedness is the big thing . . . if you have enough experiences of feeling completely useless with kids, you never want to dive back in there again - no matter how much you care. the truth is that teaching sunday school is often the only opportunity to minister to kids . . . and that job is definitely not for everyone. it's not for me. so, as you said, i need to be more creative. and to pray.
certain situations and settings can make you feel useless with kids. I think it comes down to proper training, equipping and visioning. Not to mention seperating kids according to ages.
I thought this was the Year of the Rooster...
Teaching Sunday School at South Meadows can be a HUGE challenge! It's not because the kids are terrible (they're fantastic), it's other challenges that come up. Most churches are able to seperate kids according to age, and because we have to keep them together, it makes it tough. I think people often get all excited to teach Sunday School at the beginning of the year...but once they realize that they have to miss the service, and that the kids aren't exactly jumping for joy to hear bible stories, people get frustrated and feel useless. The question I most often ask myself after teaching Sunday School is "Did I actually make a difference? "
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