There are times when much planning and preparing is vital to make a goal successful, and there are times when you have to throw any sort of game plan out the window - Monday was one of those "wing-it" days.
For MCC the initials "VBS" are very familiar and have been apart of the youth's summers for the past ten years. God has used Vacation Bible School to be learning and teaching experiences for leaders and students alike. However, the term VBS has become a very loose term these past two days. New Hope School kindly incorporated us into their weekly schedule to hold a "Chapel" where we taught them songs, verse, and Bible lessons. Each of us knew our roles and had been preparing for several months. BUT, God and different plans :)
My group, which includes Auntie Kori, Chris, and Aaron were assigned to the youngest group which is preschool and kindergarten we found out the night before that, that meant over 100 kids! Okay, so we made our schedule for the "40" minutes with the kids but when the forty minutes were up they told us we still had 20 more! So we quickly had to think of how to fill the time. One of the kindergarten teachers, "Mey" (pronounced: My) took the lead and helped us to do a few more songs. It all worked out in the end... at least for group 1.
Group 2 their time was cut short and they weren't able to finish the story so they ended in the middle. Also, we learned that the teachers wanted us to teach English while the other groups were in VBS. No lesson plan, no partner, no interpreter.
I encourage you to ask each team member how their class time went--- you will be both encouraged and amused.
During lunch we were able to meet together and discuss a new game plan - and we even got to take a nap.
The rest of the afternoon was spent playing with the children during recess and going into the classrooms to teach English.
At night we had youth bible study, where we played games, sangs songs, and had a lesson.
Talk about a FULL day! But ask any one on the team - it was a good "full."
