Teaching!

Last Sunday I taught the lesson. ME! This was quite the new experience for me, as I've been a shepherd almost weekly for over a year. It actually went great, minus completely forgetting to do a major portion of the lesson with the first service kids (um, oops!). We actually had about 18 kids in the second service, which was awesome. We learned about the image of God, how though we are all created to look differently on the outside, God made us very much the same on the inside because we were made in God's image. Then, I showed them the pics from the Mwanzo Academy (which they thought was SO COOL!) and we wrote letters to the students there. These were the 3-6th graders, and I was amazed at their awesome letters. Some were very basic, but others were so detailed and kind. The kids seemed very excited to become pen pals with the kids at the Mwanzo Academy, and I think really got the point that kids (and people in general) all over the world are very similar. We all play, eat, love our families, communicate, etc. While the details of languages and cultures may vary greatly, our humanness makes us alike. I had a great time teaching, but I think I'll stick to shepherding for awhile!