Friday July 24, 2009I can't believe we have been through 2 weeks of teaching already…it has gone by too fast! Today we reviewed Christmas, Caring for others, Telling the truth, recycling, and what the true meaning of Christmas is. It was so neat to see some of the kid's journals. I put up some pictures of the journals my kids did. Many of them can't write complete sentences so they just draw pictures, but they still blew me away with what they drew. One girl bl...

July 23, 2009 This week has been awesome!We have been teaching the kids about Christmas, caring, telling the truth, and recycling.Today I had one of my little girls, Angelina, write a whole page in her journal about God's love and being slow to anger.She wrote scripture in her journal.She is Chinese American and one of my better speaking students, but she is six years old!I was so excited when she raised her hand for me to come read hers!That child-like faith ...

I had to share an awesome praise with you that happened tonight!We are going to have a bible study every Wednesday night with our T.A.s and so we went out to dinner with them and then we went over to our leader's apartment.There was a little over 20 of us there (9 T.A.s).We sang four worship songs and then our leader Kimber went through Romans 5 and a few other passages in the New Testament.After she closed in prayer we all starting talking with our T.A.s and it ...

July 19, 2009 This weekend has been so much fun! School on Thursday and Friday went very well. I think my kids are starting to understand the rules of the class real well and how they need to behave since we had prize day on Friday and they needed to have been good all week to earn enough tickets for certain prizes. They saw certain prizes they wanted but could not get because they did not have enough tickets so hopefully that will be a good motivation for ne...

July 16, 2009I love how our team starts every morning off with a devotional, reading the Word, sharing what the Lord is teaching us, and encouraging each other through our struggles. It is a great reminder of how important it is to stay rooted in the Lord's Word because I know I can't do this without Him. I love looking back on experiences and realizing I could not have gotten through that experience without the Lord working through me and I know this will be one...