Today's TLA is SST.
Sunday School Teacher
So I am teaching Sunday school at Baylight Church Community. I don't know how I was able to do this the last time. It is really hard to keep kids attention especially about God. I mean look at our "adult" lives. Adults are very much like kids we have trouble with the daily awareness of God and making God our focus. For kids there is a struggle to either listen to the teacher talk about God or be entertain and be distracted with Legos. Perhaps adults don't play with Legos anymore, but adults often struggle with the distractions of toys, entertainment, and trivial stuff rather than making God the center of a mature adult life.
Well anyways, I hope I am giving the Baylight kids positive experiences with regards to their Christian faith. I pray that they may grow up to be awesome mature men and women. I pray that they continue to learn about God and God's power, God's love, God's faithfulness, God's grace, and God's forgiveness in their lives. There is so much influence when you are a teacher. You could imprint great memories or dreadful languishing memories of Sunday school.
One way to imprint great memories is to have fun with the kids. Ultimately kids just want to be happy. And why shouldn't they be happy? They don't have work deadlines, action items, bills, car payments, mortgages, or a diversified 401k plan to worry about. They are just kids. In many ways, they are not institutionalized by our culture. And it's just pure fun to be a kid. I think the lesson I taught was the story of Moses and how Moses' mom put Moses down the river and the King's daughter finds baby Moses. The phrase I taught them was that "God made us." And it's a pretty simple lesson, but it's pretty good too.
Anyways, one technique to make their Sunday school a fun experience was to just play with the kids and ask them questions about what they are thinking and imagining, because every kid wants to express themselves through their imagination. Anyways, the last time I taught Sunday school we had Teddy Bear Graham crackers and I pretended that the Teddy Bear's were talking and I made the Teddy Bear Grahams say "No no, I don't want to go to <insert-child's-name> tummy." Ahh... cheap thrills. It made them all laugh and it was pretty fun.
Anyways, we shall see how I can teach them creatively about God and make it fun for the kids.
Enjoy,
Jonathan
Sunday School Teacher
So I am teaching Sunday school at Baylight Church Community. I don't know how I was able to do this the last time. It is really hard to keep kids attention especially about God. I mean look at our "adult" lives. Adults are very much like kids we have trouble with the daily awareness of God and making God our focus. For kids there is a struggle to either listen to the teacher talk about God or be entertain and be distracted with Legos. Perhaps adults don't play with Legos anymore, but adults often struggle with the distractions of toys, entertainment, and trivial stuff rather than making God the center of a mature adult life.
Well anyways, I hope I am giving the Baylight kids positive experiences with regards to their Christian faith. I pray that they may grow up to be awesome mature men and women. I pray that they continue to learn about God and God's power, God's love, God's faithfulness, God's grace, and God's forgiveness in their lives. There is so much influence when you are a teacher. You could imprint great memories or dreadful languishing memories of Sunday school.
One way to imprint great memories is to have fun with the kids. Ultimately kids just want to be happy. And why shouldn't they be happy? They don't have work deadlines, action items, bills, car payments, mortgages, or a diversified 401k plan to worry about. They are just kids. In many ways, they are not institutionalized by our culture. And it's just pure fun to be a kid. I think the lesson I taught was the story of Moses and how Moses' mom put Moses down the river and the King's daughter finds baby Moses. The phrase I taught them was that "God made us." And it's a pretty simple lesson, but it's pretty good too.
Anyways, one technique to make their Sunday school a fun experience was to just play with the kids and ask them questions about what they are thinking and imagining, because every kid wants to express themselves through their imagination. Anyways, the last time I taught Sunday school we had Teddy Bear Graham crackers and I pretended that the Teddy Bear's were talking and I made the Teddy Bear Grahams say "No no, I don't want to go to <insert-child's-name> tummy." Ahh... cheap thrills. It made them all laugh and it was pretty fun.
Anyways, we shall see how I can teach them creatively about God and make it fun for the kids.
Enjoy,
Jonathan
