Saturday, October 16, 2010

About 15% of the student population at Ciudad de Luz comes from Christian homes. Know what that means? The majority of my students are getting their spiritual grub at school. Know what that means? When it comes to grub delivery, I've been entrusted as a waitress for about 70 kids Monday-Friday from 2pm-6pm. I MUST be intentional with the time I've been given with these babies...

I started out teaching them what I call the "Jesus Song." It's a chant we sing at the beginning of every class to get them pumped up and to do a little praisin'. Here's a clip of my 3rd graders gettin' their worship on:


We started with this, and once they got the hang of it, we added a prayer time to the beginning of class routine. I ask for volunteers to pray, and before I even finish my sentence, hands are up and kids are  begging, "Me! Me! Teacher! Teaher! I want to pray! Let me say the prayer!" They are so hungry for Him.

This week we've added a memory verse of the week. The idea is to pick one that goes along with the subject of the week and recite/memorize after we sing the "Jesus Song." Our topic this week was Parts of the Head and our verse was Luke 12:7



(...God knows how many hairs you have. For this reason, don't be afraid! You all are more valuable than many birds.)

We talked about how even though we know how many eyes, noses, mouth, and ears we have, only God knows the number of hairs on our heads...and that's because He knows us! They ate it up, and by the end of the week, most of them could at least paraphrase it. It's my hope that they will understand the power of Scripture and hide it's words in their hearts.

Here are a couple of pictures of them with the art project we did to reinforce the topic:





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