Wow! I can’t believe we are done with the first four weeks
of school. It doesn’t seem like I have been here long enough to be in school
that long. I realized the other day that I have actually worked 2 full weeks of
those 4. I worked the full first week. The second week I missed 2 days for
being sick and the 3rd week I missed 1 day for being sick. This week I made it all the way through the
week. It’s amazing how I take being healthy for granted. But PTL (praise the
Lord) all my test results that I took on Monday for typhoid and malaria came
back negative. Please continue to pray for my health that I can stay healthy
and not get sick for a while. We are starting a new afterschool program at AIS
and so I was really excited about coaching volleyball again. I found out on
Wednesday that there would be no volleyball because not enough people signed up
for it. I was bummed because I started the volleyball program at school and
it’s kind of my baby. However our marketing manager found out I play piano and
she called and asked if I would be willing to teach piano to 1st
through 3rd graders. I said yes! Its going to be a new experience
for me because I have never taught piano before but I know God will be with me
and bless me through this experience. I will have three students!
This week we have had so many God moments some planned some
not but that is what is so amazing about the God I serve He is always planned
and knows when He is going to give me the opportunity to share who He is.
The first one took place on Monday. We were reading the
story of The Little Engine that Could and if you don’t the bases of the
story its about this little red engine that breaks down and all these big
trains come by and they are either too proud, to old, to important, or to
small. Until this small blue engine comes by and tells the little red engine
that she will try even though she is small and she says I think I can, I think
I can until she pulls the little red engine over the mountain. I asked the students what Bible story Jesus
tells that sounds kind of like the story of The Little Engine that Could.
We brought up the story of the Good Samaritan, in Luke 10:25-37, and how the
Levite, priest, and then the Samaritan came by and how the most unlikely helped.
The second one came in Math on Thursday. We were counting to
100 and we looked at the parable of the lost sheep, Luke 15:3-7. We counted by
tens up to ninety and then counted nine out. We talked about how the shepherd
would go and look for the last sheep because that one was the lost one. We then
counted all of them plus the one lost sheep and got to 100. We got to read the
story in Luke and talked about the meaning of that parable and how there is a
party in Heaven every time one of the lost sheep comes home; every time a
sinner comes to Jesus there is a party in Heaven.
The third came on Wednesday during Social Studies. We are
started maps and so we have been looking at directions. So to help the students
learn directions we listen to the song Shout to the North. The students listen
to the song once and practice the motions and then I explained that the song
means that no matter where God calls us to go we are to tell people from the
North, South, East, and West about Who He is. The kids have fallen in love with
the song and they worship him whenever they sing the chorus, which says… “
Shout to the North, and the South, sing to the East and the West Jesus is
savoir to all HE’s Lord of Heaven and Earth.
It has been an amazing week of learning about God. I pray
God keeps using me, in all my inadequacies, to teach these kids about the
amazing God I serve and worship.
How you can pray for me this week…
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Patience with some of my students
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Leading staff devotions tomorrow (Monday)
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More moments to share Christ with my students.
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Open house is on Thursday- Meeting a lot of the
parents and having them all in my classroom
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Teaching piano to 3 students on Thursday
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PTL for all God has been doing in first grade
this year!
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PTL for all the times that I get to share this
year and encourage not only the students but the staff.
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