I marvel at watching the young people come in(basically middle school, for our church) and watching them swing back and forth from totally silliness to total seriousness in a matter of minutes.
The silliness makes me laugh and I love seeing them come to some new conclusions about God, Jesus, scripture, or one another.
It is just plain fun for me and secretly, just between us, something you need not have to pay me for. But, let's not tell the church that for now. The pay is nice to have!
Tonight we came up with 50 different words or phrases to describe who Jesus is or what he does, based on scripture we read and only using the letters in IMMANUEL. If you are in my denomination, you probably will recognize the curriculum I am using. Anyhow, we ended up with 48 and since we were so close to 50, we worked a little harder.
We also talked about how we all have sins (stuck to us like Post-It notes) and how it is because of Jesus that we are forgiven for these sins. We laughed at one another as we noticed similar sins we all had done, but then noticed how often certain ones came up. More than one of us had been mean to our brother. Almost all of us had lied and quite a few of us had anger issues. Hmmm.
But we all took heart in knowing we were forgiven and were freed from the guilt of our sins.
I love this crowd, but then again, I love all of my confirmation classes. Each one is different and each one has its own joys and sorrows, but all become special to me.
Other fun things today included acting out Jesus in the Wilderness and being tempted. Our Jesus was a pint-sized fellow with a big smile. It was hard to get him to look hungry, but it worked. He did quite well on top of the pinnacle. The devil was quite devilish and my two angels who cared for Jesus afterwards were more like to Florence Nightingales as they tended to Jesus(who giggled a lot).
Yup, it was a good Sunday at the Church Up the Road.
5 comments:
Hey there! Welcome "back" to RGBP! I'm introducing your new blog today.
Great post. Welcome back to RG!
Glad to see you in your new home!
About the confirmation classes: if you are loving being with the kids that much, I am absolutely positive they know it; that affirmation of their value--at an age when they don't get a lot of that--is an incredible gift to them and a proclamation of the Good News more powerful than anything you can put into words :-)
Welcome back! and thank you for your observations on the Confirmation age!
Hello! I'm one of the newer members of RGBP, intro'd on the same Meet & Greet as you. I am enjoying your blog. Glad your back. And I agree, Confirmation is one of the best things that we do. God bless!
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