I feel like I have been writing lesson after lesson; perhaps that’s because I have been. Two people writing almost 60 lessons take forever. Then you have the trial and error process, the revising, the taking out, the adding in and trying to make it creative and functional for all needs. (We have some girls who can’t read or write.) Then after all that, one day we will have all the Spanish corrected on both the student and teacher forms.
I feel like after writing about 20, I have found my grove. I was trying to take the easy way out; write up the forms and then add in the teaching. Although this has worked, I haven’t liked it nor enjoyed it. Monday, I finally decided to do it as I normally would. Journal through it, apply it to myself, write it all out and then make the forms. I enjoyed it so much and it’s nice to have the personal application part in my own life.
I guess part of it has been me thinking, I already know Jesus and about sin and what not so I don’t need to apply nor journal about these things. What a lie from satan, himself! I for sure need to apply these things and allow God to stretch me and see where my actions and my words don’t add up. For example: I believe God is all powerful yet I don’t give Him certain areas of my life because I’m afraid to trust Him in it. Therefore my actions and thoughts don’t match those of my mouth. I want to be breathing in and out what I am teaching these girls. So I will be doing a lot of re-writing (that was already needed) and doing a lot more applying.
I give the girls an Applicación de Vida (A Life Application) at the end of their worksheet as homework; which has a few questions to get them thinking. Too funny how I can just easily by pass that up and think I got it all together.
Monday, as I wrote about our priorities and using the story of Mary and Martha en Luke 10:38-42, I was so challenged on how I do things. Do I do things out of my performance based concept of God or out of my love relationship with God? Do I do things for Him or do I let Him work through me? I pray the latter ones of each.
This week has been interesting as I am teaching all 4 cabins. Tuesday, I taught Cabaña Rut the Birth of Jesus. We had a lot of fun. For their craft, we made a poster of the stable scene but we used lions as Jesus, Joseph and Mary, camels for the 3 Wiseman, and goats turned into sheep (by cutting of their goatees and horns) for the shepherds. It was really cute.
I also taught the lesson on Our Priorities to Cabaña Ester. Unfortunately this cabaña tends to be harder because of the group of girls who are in there right now. Two really want to learn, one has a tiny bit of desire to learn and the other two just don’t care at all. This makes teaching hard because the ones who don’t want to learn, are causing many distractions and the lesson just doesn’t tend to go well. I was very excited about this lesson, but have to trust that God has it all in His control.
Today, I taught Débora and tomorrow I will teach Tamara, How to Study the Bible. I enjoy this lesson as it’s a hands on lesson and applying simple, but wonderful, questions when reading the Word. I had 13 girls in class which always makes it crazy and I have a wide variety of levels of learning abilities. However, I felt it went well for the most part. Tomorrow I can work out the kinks of today’s.
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