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The week of outreach is more than halfway over by now. It feels as though it's gone on for a month. Usual schedule: Children's clubs in the mornings, make lunch, Bible study, literature distribution, dinner, door-to-door, back to the manse to chat, bed.
This year we're doing activities at the clubs: football for the boys, dance and craft for the girls. I'm doing the craft. So far we've made boxes out of coloured lollipop sticks, and tomorrow we're starting friendship bracelets. We've had a good turn-out of kids, 24 today, and the boys are doing well too. One of the little girls said it was the best club she'd ever been too. :) I did my memory verse today. I didn't think it went too badly. One thing about it is that the time is short, as we need to get all the activities done and so on, so there's a limit to how badly you can mess up in the time. Tomorrow I shall change it around a bit and give them the words to hold up as I take them off the wall, and then I'll get them to hold each of them up as the rest of them say it over.
We finished the town yesterday and we were out in the outlying villages today. I was in the one where I used to live so I had to organise everyone and keep track of where we were and how many we had done. It was quite fun actually. Tomorrow they're going to Hillsborough so I printed out a couple of maps for them. I'm doing my best to be helpful and clean up and stuff without saying anything or making a fuss, but I do think people are noticing. Peter did, and Claire.
The door-to-door is pretty much as usual. Joel was very shocked by one of the responses we got ("I'll take my chances on going to hell"), but I'd heard it often enough to be hardened to it. Going out agina tomorrow, urgh. I always feel really nervous directly before it.
Rebekah was in the church today because her parents were feeding us. She joined the dance club, despite being well under eight :), and loved it of course. This evening I kept an eye on her while her adults were busy. She was sweet most of the time, although she did take a strunt when I tried to give her juice, because she wanted her father to do it. She did do a couple of things that I ordered her to, like wipe her mouth and not go jumping off a high wall, so we're getting there. The boys let her play cricket with them and taught her how to say "'zat?". They wouldn't let any of the rest of us play! They said she was a good meduim-fast bowler, but she's a pants batsman because the bat is bigger than she is.
This year we're doing activities at the clubs: football for the boys, dance and craft for the girls. I'm doing the craft. So far we've made boxes out of coloured lollipop sticks, and tomorrow we're starting friendship bracelets. We've had a good turn-out of kids, 24 today, and the boys are doing well too. One of the little girls said it was the best club she'd ever been too. :) I did my memory verse today. I didn't think it went too badly. One thing about it is that the time is short, as we need to get all the activities done and so on, so there's a limit to how badly you can mess up in the time. Tomorrow I shall change it around a bit and give them the words to hold up as I take them off the wall, and then I'll get them to hold each of them up as the rest of them say it over.
We finished the town yesterday and we were out in the outlying villages today. I was in the one where I used to live so I had to organise everyone and keep track of where we were and how many we had done. It was quite fun actually. Tomorrow they're going to Hillsborough so I printed out a couple of maps for them. I'm doing my best to be helpful and clean up and stuff without saying anything or making a fuss, but I do think people are noticing. Peter did, and Claire.
The door-to-door is pretty much as usual. Joel was very shocked by one of the responses we got ("I'll take my chances on going to hell"), but I'd heard it often enough to be hardened to it. Going out agina tomorrow, urgh. I always feel really nervous directly before it.
Rebekah was in the church today because her parents were feeding us. She joined the dance club, despite being well under eight :), and loved it of course. This evening I kept an eye on her while her adults were busy. She was sweet most of the time, although she did take a strunt when I tried to give her juice, because she wanted her father to do it. She did do a couple of things that I ordered her to, like wipe her mouth and not go jumping off a high wall, so we're getting there. The boys let her play cricket with them and taught her how to say "'zat?". They wouldn't let any of the rest of us play! They said she was a good meduim-fast bowler, but she's a pants batsman because the bat is bigger than she is.
