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| Our Class of Adorable "Little Stars" |
This past Sunday was Kid's Day here in Argentina. Basically, it's another day/excuse to spoil your kids rotten and for stores that carry children's clothes and toys to make a BIG profit. However, the benefit is that it makes for an automatic BIG day in Sunday School, too. :) I got such a blessing out of seeing our little church building stuffed to capacity with shining, smiling little faces. Whether they came to see the video (a cartoon about Missionary Jim Elliott), or for the gifts (more than likely) or for the candy, etc. All of that doesn't really matter. What matters is that they came and heard that Jesus loves each and every one of them, enough to die for them. Amazing!!
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| Church, full of kids |
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| Singing "His Banner Over Me is Love" |
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| Clara, being distracted by mama and the camera ;) |
As I mentioned a few posts back, I am so blessed to work in the 0-3 year old class of Estrellitas (Little Stars). I often {not so jokingly} comment that I am in that class because that is the level of my Spanish communication. {Wink, wink} Some days that's about right, too. It is so wonderful to share a Bible story with these sweet little kids, teach them Bible verses and songs, show them how to pray and give their coins to Jesus, and just sit back and watch them interact, too. They are always exploring and learning something new. So neat to see things through their eyes as the whole world opens up before them. And to give them a Godly, Biblical perspective on life, beginning at such a young age, is incredible!
So, for Kid's Day we gave each of our "little stars" a little box of colored pencils with a colorful clown face on the front. The original idea was to buy boxes of crayons or colored pencils that have an oval shaped hole in the front so that you can see all the colors. Then you are supposed to cut out a hole for the mouth of the clown and put it over the hole in the color box, so that the colors show and look like the clown's teeth. Pretty nifty, huh?! Unfortunately, we did not find color boxes with a hole, but the clowns were super-cute, nevertheless. :) If you could have seen the kids' faces light up when we revealed the "Surprise!!". PRICELESS!!
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| Clara loves to color in class |
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| Snack Time! |
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| Ethan, happy in his walker |
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| Playing "Train" |
I am so thankful for the opportunity to be a part of our church and to influence these kids for the Lord. It is truly amazing to see what they soak up. A couple weeks ago, I taught a lesson on Joseph. I shared with the kids how Potiphar's wife wanted Joseph to do something bad, but he said, "NO!!!" and ran away. I went on to explain that if a friend tries to get you to do something bad, you need to say, "NO! NO! NO!" and run far away, too!!! Well, evidently at least one of my little students was paying attention. That same night at supper time, his older brother told his mom that it is hard to do right sometimes, because he had really wanted to hit his sister, but didn't do it. His little 2 1/2 yr. old brother piped up, "Bad things--NO, NO, NO; good things--YES, YES, YES!" and when questioned about it, he said that he had learned that in class from Heather and Yanel. I cannot begin to tell you how it thrilled me to hear this!
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| Friends and Funny Faces |
Working in our Sunday School class is such a joy and I think I get the most out of it! I love, LoVe, LOVE it and I LOVE these kids! :)
