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Saturday, October 19, 2002 ( 11:36 AM ) MaltaGirl Well it's been a while, I actually forgot I had a blog (heheh). This morning I taught at FireKids - it's a Pentecostal kids group but hey, we're all one in the Lord right? Their regular teacher is away so I and another kids worker are covereing for her. I am Baptist and my new colleague is Pentecostal, but we all get along just fine. Of course I left it to this morning to review the pre-prepared material I was supposed to be teaching today, and to my eternal horror found that today of all days, the day when I'm teaching... it's about healing and casting out evil spirits. Don't anyone go telling me that God doesn't have a sense of humour. I decided to ask my colleague to do the teaching part of the session instead because I can't teach kids something I don't agree with! But guess what, she was delayed and was late so we couldn't discuss it. *sigh* So I just got on with it, and we had a great time exploring the story and looking at the cool details (like how the whole town showed up on Jesus' doorstep in Capernaum the day after he cast out an evil spirit!). Then I began following the guide which the usual teacher had prepared for me to follow, asking the kids specific questions. The closer we got to the part where I was supposed to tell them they could heal and drive out spirits, the more nervous I became. Then I found a solution! I asked the question, and then in relating the answer I simply said "[your regular teacher] says that you can do these things too!" and showed them where it was written in the guide. *whew* I feel that I managed to retain my personal honour, while still honouring the trust that had been placed in me to instruct the kids. My colleague was very tickled when I discussed it with her afterwards, and she said she thought it had gone well - but before we decided that I would also teach next week, we made sure to check what the story was going to be, just in case ;-) I think God was amused... # |
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