First Day - Psalms 23

Well Pastor Cal and I had a great turn out of kids this morning. 14 or 15 total, mostly girls... It was sooo exciting!!!

Things went very well. We intended on taking the kids upstairs during worship (because the basement can echo a bit) but the turn out upstairs was so good there wasn't really room for the kids upstairs so we brought them down and started making connections. We really want them to know that this is their place and His (Gods) place so we set it up as a hang out area first so we could let the kids have fun and get to know each other and us. Then we started the scary part, my first real lesson. To be honest, it went pretty well, but I was really nervous and a little jumpy. Though I know I'll be less frazzled less week and over time and it was still an amazing experience. Then of course we ended jr.church with Pastor Cal's story and object bag. It was so cool to be in the other seat watching the kids listening after many years of being in the listening seat trying to guess the object bag.
God is really opening my eyes to these kids and showing me His work. I am so excited for this experience and I can already see some amazing work God has done at Bridgepoint with these children just over this weekend.

I can't wait to prepare an Easter lesson for next week. I am sooo excited to be working with these kids. The excitement on their faces makes it all the worth while. We're going to have a great Easter Sunday with a game (as soon as I think of a good one...) and CANDY and ticket-pools... It's going to be good.