First week under my belt.

Hello There Cyberspace,

Well, our first week is under our belt, and what a great week it was! We were at Mount Hope Christian School in Burlington Mass. This school was perfect for me, I love working with Elementary and Pre-schoolers, and this school was preschool through 5th grade.

We ran two chapels each day one for the elementary school (K-5) which Pam led and she worked through a theme titled “Shoes” where we talk about…you guessed it, shoes. With that week, we’ll spell out the word shoes one letter for each day and each letter associates with a different word.

Monday S= Salvation
Tuesday H= Healing
Wednesday O= Obey (Obedience)
Thursday E= Endurance
Friday S= Sanctification

Each day we had a different shoe as an object lesson.

I led the preschool chapel with the assistance of the ever awesome Hudson Taylor Wells. We talked about the parables of Jesus while using blocks, a stuffed turtle, and my Yankees shirt. I had originally thought of using a pair of bulls to talk about the parables of Jesus, but with Hudson coming to help, I didn’t need to have a puppet to talk to, because I had a real person.

Cutest thing I heard last week “God wants us to be snuggly with Him” one day we had talked about slippers and how God wants us to be comfortable and get refreshed in Him.

Most awesome thing I heard last week “Hi! Hi, my name is Rachel.” I say that’s the most awesome because that little preschooler was talking to me and the teachers told me that’s the most she had spoken since she had been there. She was a new student and hadn’t really said much for the week she had been there, but she called out to me from across the playground to tell me her name.

God is an awesome God!

I have all this week off, but starting next week, we have 2 weeks in a row, I’m really looking forward to it. In October I get to go back to 2 schools I’ve already been to, I can’t wait for that to renew those relationships with the staff and the kids.

Last night I went to a worship service at a small house church, the speaker was a missionary from Wales, that is currently stationed in France. He talked about too often we just pray out of our faith, but we need to more often pray out of our authority, or more rather, the authority of Christ in us. We have a great authority when we can use that name, but we only can when we have Christ in our life.

He also talked about ministering out of Christ and not just out of our gift. Ministering out of our gift means that sometimes we go where we’re not called, because we think that’s where our gifting has taken us (just to be clear, I don’t feel that way at all about coming to Coastlands, if I was going to go somewhere comfortable, it wouldn’t have been into the mission field!) and sometimes we get stuck, because we’re using our gift, but we’re so tied to it, that we can’t see when we should change something.

Well, I must be off,

Have a great day!