Dino-Nuggets

This morning was the first day of Summer Fun Pre-school. Amy and I were at the church by 8:30...Dani Beth kind of told us the wrong time, so we were late for chapel, but it wasn't a big deal. We were just in time for introductions, however. As we walked up to the front after our names were called, we began to notice that everyone was dressed fairly nice in comparison to our grungy, athletic clothes that we wore to help set up the water slide. One little girl insisted that I give her a hug as we made our way to the stage, so that was nice. After chapel Dani Beth informed us that the slide wasn't going to be put up for the day, but she said our attire wasn't a problem. She was right. None of the kids cared at all what we were wearing, they still wanted us to sit by them and play with dinosaurs when we visited each classroom.
After rotating through each pre-school room, Amy and I began working on the curriculum for our 4th-6th grade girls bible study that we'll be leading. This week our topic is going to be friendship, and I am really excited for it because we are using one of my favorite bible stories. The story of David and Jonathan has always had a special place in my heart because it is a friendship based on a deep love that makes the two men as close as brothers even though Saul (Jonathan's father) wants to kill David. What follows is an epic tale of battles over power and all the while the two friends remain loyal to each other with a covenant of mercy between them. In the end, David does come to power and Jonathan dies. David, honoring his promise to his best friend, finds Jonathan's remaining, crippled son and has him always sit at the king's table.
So halfway into writing this whole bible study out, we got to break for lunch. Dani Beth and two of the other women from the church joined us as we all shared in a delicious pre-school lunch of dino-nuggets and corn. Delicious!!! After some good, entertaining conversation, it was back to work. I finished writing the bible study on construction paper, and then Amy tried to make sense of it all as she typed in into the computer so we could print it out. Hopefully the girls will really get something out of this study on Thursday.
Tomorrow we will be starting our bible study/prep-group with the teenage girls. We will be reading Crazy Love with them as well as going over the stuff for the pre-teen girls (since we will be training them to take over the pre-teen bible study).
It was a pretty long day of work I suppose, but everything went by so fast! I really enjoyed the broad list of jobs and activities we got to take part in today. We went from playing with kids to writing bible study curriculum to mailing acceptance forms for Summer Fun. In short it was a productive, but not so stressful day that I have just decided deserves a nap time soon. Hopefully I can get some more pictures up soon so ya'll don't get so bored and keep checking in on me here. Until then, just bear with me and keep praying! Love love love!