Milestone for Mummy: One Month of Teaching Sunday School

I have survived teaching nursery Sunday School for 4 whole weeks!

For SS veterans, this is scoff-worthy.

For an introvert like me who - until I had a child of my own - has always been terrified by smart alecky kids and has no idea what to say to them, this is an achievement worth celebrating.

Last Sun (30 April 2006) was especially precious. As always, I spent the day before cutting out handicraft materials based on what the curriculum recommended.

The thing is, you never know if the children will respond well to your efforts. Thankfully, they liked the paper hearts I made. I wrote "Jesus lives forever. Heb 7:24" on one side (our memory verse for the month) and "Jesus loves _______ (child's name)" on the other.

I also brought a never-before-introduced prop - Shaggy the donkey - which induced giggly fits in the children and really got their attention.

Finally, there was the piece de resistance - the story of Jesus ascending into Heaven, complete with paper cutouts of Jesus and the angels which could be made to slide up and down along a line. You had to hold fast to the cutouts tho', or "Jesus" would fall off - another cause of much merriment among the children, who made me keep repeating the blooper.

I made sure every child got to experiment with the cutouts depending on which storyline they chose. And Shaggy also got to say "I love you" to every child by name. It worked beautifully - for once, every child was fully engaged and interested in what was happening, and actually fought to say their piece.

Truly a lovely way to end my stint...till 3 months down the road. Thank you Lord, for helping me overcome my fear of teaching Sunday School. :)