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Monday July 12, 2010

Acting out animals for Noah's Ark

Here we are back in Bohol. We arrived here on Saturday after an amazing week with the Sack’s. We are staying in a really cute little cottage right in the ocean. It is beautiful here. While we are here, we have been working with New Life AG. After we arrived on Saturday, we were broken up into teams. Three teams would do children’s ministry and the other one with youth. Ashley and I traveled with three nationals to a small village in the jungle. A tiny dirt path led us to a house where there were about twenty children. I was nervous and we had nothing prepares. We didn’t know what we were going to do, but it was all on Ashley and I. The nationals didn’t help us and knew almost no English. We found out that the language that we have been learning the whole time we have been here is Tagalog, but on this island, they speak Visayan. Thankfully, the teacher of these kids knew enough English to translate for us. Ashley and I quickly introduced ourselves and sang some children’s songs, teaching them all of the motions. Then the kids sang for us some songs in Visayan and then the teacher had them recite scripture for us. Ashley and I taught them the story of Noah and the Ark and had the kids act out the story and the animal noises. We had no concept of the time or how long we were expected to be there for. Apparently it wasn’t time for us to leave yet, so with questioned look on our faces, somewhat frantic on what to do, Ashley and I did some more songs for them and then told the story of David and Goliath. Finally we ran out of things to do and we had the kids teach us a game, which we played until Miles and pastor Rowen showed up.

Teaching a Bible Story

Ashley and I would end up doing the same thing again on Sunday afternoon in a super remote area. It has really shown me that God will use us if we are willing. Ashley and I were in no way prepared to do children’s ministry seens how we are much more youth/college oriented, but we jumped in like we had done it a thousand times over!