Sharks and Minnows

Either the kids are settling into the new summer routine for Sunday school, or I simply no longer have the younger kids to compare them to, so they seem quieter. They've been awesome though, and done an amazing job of respecting and listening to the guest teachers. (And, the guest teachers have done an awesome job of going with the flow and not looking shocked and appalled at the things that occasionally come out of the kids mouths.)

The mere fact that we are able to have a ratio of fifty kids to three leaders and still rotate them around to the different stations without loosing anyone ought to be impressive!

They're not fans of it - I've lost track of the number of kids who have told me that they like "normal" Sunday school better - but they're good sports, even when we make them play giant games of sharks and minnows.

I just wish that church wasn't something that they had to be "good sports" about. This ought to be their community and their family...

(Shark and minnows was our "go-to" game when these kids were in kindergarten Sunday school and all of the high school shepherds basically co-taught the entire room, so, they've played a LOT of hours of sharks and minnows in this field... when we weren't doing things like tying the entire room into a spiderweb of red yarn for the story of Rahab or sneaking through the hallways as "secret agents" to practice our memory verses.

And, yes. They still remember all of that. I've asked. :D)