The importance of kids.

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We attended the same church as last Sunday, where we plan to work with kids in a rural community. But they also have a bible class for children during the service. So today we went with the purpose of seeing their children's program. In one room, around one table, sat 9 kids, from ages five to thirteen. I figured they had three age groups: five to seven, eight to eleven, and twelve to thirteen. The leader shared the story of Moises and then had the kids draw what they learned. i got involved in some paper folding to make their drawing more interesting. Plus Faby and I led a song at the end. Afterwards we talked with the director of the children's program. Each week a different teacher leads the class. Why? 1) Lack of volunteers to teach; 2) "You need to attend the service to be spiritually fed." The first comment explains why they don't divide the children into age groups. The last comment saddens me to think that Christians only feed themselves in church. What a need for personal devotions and bible study! Well, for now, my solution is to help all I can with the children's program. We'll see how it goes. They did put us in the list of available teachers.