I only have one more night of teaching for VBS. I don’t know what we’ll be doing on Friday night, but it is parents’ night and I’m not really expecting any of the parents of the 7th and 8th graders to show up. We may just play volleyball after doing a quick review of each of the stories of the week. On Tuesday, we talked about Nicodemus and last night it was Saul (more commonly known as Paul, but this was before his name change.) We had a new kid come in on Tuesday and though he is quiet, I think he is soaking it all in. He participated some last night and seemed to really enjoy what he was learning. We’ve been doing crafts and activities. We didn’t have them the first two nights, but added them in because the kids were getting bored with an hour and a half of lessons and only having a five minute break for snack. While they are doing crafts, I’m usually telling them a modern day story related to our lesson, so they are still having the lesson. I guess it just helps to have them doing something with their hands. We were planning on just going out and playing volleyball since we weren’t scheduled for activities, but the kids were watching some of the younger kids do it and thought it would be a lot of fun. Since we don’t have but four kids, it doesn’t take very long to do the activity and then we still play volleyball. That seems to work out well.
Anyway, things are going better now.