TODAY WAS SOOOOO AMAZING!!!!! Kristin and I just got in from our first AWANA meeting of the year. For those of you that don't know what AWANA is it's a youth group type program for kids ages 4-16ish. They have a service, games, and most importantly spend time learning and trying to understand the bible. One of the stresses of this program is learning how to memorize bible verses, which is always important for kids to learn! I still remember many of the passages that I learned at this program and I think I only recently realized how much I actually remember from those crazy wednesday nights all those years ago. Not only did I learn tons of verses and make some friends I've still got today, but I also became a christian at AWANA's!!!!
So back to tonight....
When Kristin and I were asked by Allan Pavey (a missionary from america) to help out with AWANA I got sooo excited. Not only was it all in english...a bit of a different for us, but it's also a group of youth which is what I will be studying in college. It was neat that this opertunity was presented to us while we're here and so we decided that although we would be missing some of the work going on here Tuesday evenings that it was worth it. So tonight when Gudren took the kids to AWANA we went with them. We began the evening with an intro, a short message on the rapture, small groups, and then game time. I have my own small group! At first I was kinda freaked to be given a group of 6 7-11 year old boys, but they were actually really nice and sweet! I also have the Pavey's son so I knew one of them. Since I had done AWANA's as a kid I knew how to lead the lesson and memorization time. I am soooo proud of my group of guys, they together learned 8 verses! Pretty impressive for 30 minutes! It hit me during game time how original this group actually was. First off during have you ever one of the questions was who speaks another language other than french or english and more than half the group moves...ahhh! Plus half the people there have moved from America because they are missionaries or their husbands had to move for work. It was just so normal and everyday after living here at Champfleuri in this seperate world for soooo long. I guess what I'm trying to articulate is that it finally felt like we were able to reach out beyond our little bubble up here and meet Christians in the area. It was so nice to just speak english, to understand the little everyday conversations that were going on around us, to have people give encouragment and be positive. The people working there were so nice and friendly, they made Kristin and I feel right at home and the kids were so incredible. Basically it was a great night and I realized how many Americans and missionaries there really are living around here. It was so neat also because it just felt like we actually truly live in France. I mean of course we do, but sometimes it doesn't actually feel like that since we never leave camp. Alright and ending this random tangent AWANA was great and we are going to be heading there every Tuesday from here on out.
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