Leave Me There

This morning, I taught Sunday school solo at Middleton. We talked about how God fulfilled His promise of children to Abraham, and that Christians are then adopted into God's family. It blew their minds, but I had to claify a little, because one of the kids said "Adopted...I'm adopted?!? Does that mean our parents aren't our real parents!?! I'm living with STRANGERS?!??!" Once that got cleared up, they loved singing "Father Abraham" and dancing at the end. Andrew from Douglas apparently gave a wonderful sermon, and I got to meet some great people. One lady had converted from Catholicism because she developed a dust allergy and was literally allergic to her church. We had a whole mess of leftovers, and had to head out after cleaning as much as we could and debriefing with Jonny. They drove us to Cork, and after a few minutes of heartfelt goodbyes, we were on the bus to Dublin. Those 3 hours seemed like forever. We settled into the hotel, where a few o...

A shower and a full night's sleep left me very refreshed this morning. We dressed up and went to Carrigaline Baptist Church, which was about 50 people in the Carrigaline Community Center. Alyssa, Devan, Jess and I helped teach Sunday school. The memory verse was John 11:25, and I told the story of Christ raising Lazarus from the dead. We explained how we are spiritually dead before salvation, and they drew pictures of the story while I taught. We did, however, have about twice as long as I originally anticipated, and we were starting to loose attention towards the end. But, thankfully, the other girls came up with some one-the-spot- ideas for games. I will be sure to pray for an 11 year old in the class, who says she isn't quite ready to follow Jesus. Even though her parents are Christians, and have taught her their faith, she doesn't quite know what's holding her back. She says she'll think about it more when she's older, but hopefully the Lord will do a work i...