Wow...one word to describe my last three days here at Shepherd Community. For those of you who don't have any background info, this summer I'm privileged to be a part of a summer project partnership of Campus Crusade for Christ, and Shepherd Community Center here in Indianapolis. Last week, all of us students here on project had training for serving as interns leading a day camp program called "Summer Excel" at Shepherd, and boy did we learn a lot.
However, as many of us have heard in some format or another, "One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try"-Aristotle. Going into the camp this Monday, I had no clue what to expect in many aspects. I knew I would be teaching a group of 5th and 6th graders with a couple of other interns, and hat the children in our class would be from the inner city community. Yet, I did not anticipate to have already learned so much about the children, my fellow interns, and myself in only 3 days! Funny how whenever you set out to teach, you're the one who ends up learning the most. We've been praying about how we can serve these children, and show them love--and after these few short days they've shown me more than I can even describe.
Day 1-The first day with Team Mexico-aka our class of 12 blossoming adolescent girls and 13 mischeviously adorable boys--came and went in an instant. The morning began with an intro consisting of getting to know each other games, and laying down the laws of course. The rest of the day was filled with reading activities, devotion, worship, & spending time outside to make use of all that held up energy. Our devotion was about day 1 of creation, and we sought to emphasize how the trinity was present even in the beginning by tieing in John 1. It was so rejuvinating even for me to be reminded that, "In the beginning was the Word...", and that our Father knew even then He would send His Son for us. On the way to worship, one of the little guys told me about how his best friend went to juvi, and that he wanted to be there too. This showed me even more that a lot of these kids don't have many positive influences in their lives.
Tonight was also our, "Date Night w/ Jesus" for summer project, where we had a couple hrs set aside for very much needed personal devotion & reflection.
Day 2-The schedule of day 2 was different than the first because all of the girls and guys were divided up for a day out on the town-woo-hoo. I'm scheduled to go with the youngest group of boys on field trip days (usually Tues & Thurs every other wk), which is really cool since I get to interact with both age groups. On the other hand, I was amazed at how much I missed the kids in our class after one day..like seriously?! Even though I did miss Team Mexico, I had a blast with the young ens at Jireh Sports (gymnastics/sports complex), and loved teaching the good ol' A-B-C's in our lesson. They are a handful but ADORABLE!
On the Cru side of things, we had our first worship service as a team tonight. It was great to spend time together in fellowship this way--at the same time refreshing & convicting.
Due to lack of time, I've gotta run...hate to end so briefly but I'll sure to be include Day 3 in the next post! Always on the move here lol....don't think I've ever appreciated R & R more than now...Love you all & talk to u soon!
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