Hours this week= 3.5
After a crazy week several weeks ago, things got back to normal. I missed last week's class cause I was feeling sick, but what a blessing it was to come back to hugs and excitement from all the kids who missed me. Class went well, and Ms. Jessica informed me that next week I would be doing the teaching, so it was a pretty exciting week for me.
Today's lesson was out of the book of Job. A great thing that happened in the past couple weeks was that the leadership decided to purchase children's Bibles, so a good amount of the kids who don't usually pay attention, were attentive and listening today. Sha'Heem, who is usually shy, even opted to read for the group. The lesson was on the problems we all have, and almost every kid wanted to share. One exceptionally sad aspect of the sharing time though was the amount of kids who expressed sadness over their parents being in jail or dead. When I first started volunteering at Tuesday Church, I knew it would be a bit of a culture shock, but it had never been more real than it was tonight.
Another disheartening part of the night is that Shawnaia hasn't returned. Unfortunately, Ms. Jessica didn't remember if she was there last week, so there's a chance that she's missed 2 consecutive weeks after the incident.
Some of the questions that I had after this week were:
1) What can I do to meet some of the needs of these kids whose fathers are in jail or have passed on?
2) Why has the ReaLife leadership waited until NOW to get Children's Bibles?!?!?! It worked out SOOOOOO well!!!
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