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Sunday July 11, 2010

Ashley and I visited a small village yesterday. It was down a little diet path up to a house where her and I would do children’s ministry for about an hour. This would be quiet an experience for us because we had no idea what we would be doing until about 20 minutes before we arrived at this house. We went in completely blind with nothing prepared and just gave the time to God that He would helps us in the message that needed to be brought to the children. We spent the next hour introducing ourselves, teaching them some song with movements and actions. The kids sang for us and told us all of their names. Ashley and I had the chance to tell them two Bible stories, Noah and the Ark, and David and Goliath that we had them help act out. Then the kids quoted different scripture verses to us and I was very impressed by how much they had committed to memory. The teacher would call out verses and one of them would just stand up and say it. Many spoke Visyan, but a couple could speak the whole verse in English. This scripture memory think really got me thinking and I realized that I would not have been able to do what these kids half my age or less we doing. I know a lot of scripture, but really couldn’t tell you where it is found. We, I, have become so dependent on our computers, iPods, or phones, that we just type in what we want to know and the technology does all of the work. Most of the children and people I have encountered here will never have that opportunity in their lifetime to look up scripture let alone anything on a computer. It may sound strange, but I was very jealous that they knew so much scripture! I just think that if I was somewhere and didn’t have my Bible or anything and had to rely on only what I knew, how would I do? How would you do?