Hours this week= 3
The second to last week of Tuesday Church was probably the best one of all of them. Today, Ms. Jessica shared the salvation message with the class. God had His hand over the classroom time, the loud kids were respectful, the eager learners were full of questions, and in the end, 13 kids accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. Granted, this is probably (and hopefully) the first of many Salvation Prayers that these kids will say in their lives, but it's exciting nonetheless. I was nearly brought to tears when I saw their little hands raise, and the excitement they had about the angels partying in heaven. When I first came into this practicum, I felt it was a bit out of my comfort zone as far as teaching goes. I'm comfortable working with kids, but teaching-wise, I prefer to go deeper than cover the surface level type stuff. But seeing the impact that the Tuesday Church Ministry has on their lives every week is incredible.
As I was making my observations, I noticed that Shawnaia was back again, and so was Corey. He was being his usual self, but nothing extreme. On the Corey scale, he was probably at a 4 (which translates to a 11 or 12 on a normal person's scale, but I'll take it) Dora asked to pray again, and Talia, one of the meaner girls, said that Jesus was telling her to be nicer to her friends (I made sure to let her know that He wants us to be nicer to everyone) Overall, it was an incredible night, and as always, Ms. Jessica taught right at the kids' levels. She's wonderful.
Some of the questions that I had after this week were:
1) What's the next step? Now that they've accepted Christ, how do we follow up?
2) How can we get these kids and their parents to start regularly attending a local church?
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