1st Grade Triumph

* I wrote this blog 2 weeks ago, Oct 7, 2012 and didn't get it posted before my vacation so it's a little late, but here it is:

As a Onelife KIDS 1st grade small group leader, our Sundays are full of energy, questions, dancing,  learning, and loose teeth. Sometimes we have good Sundays and sometimes we have great Sundays. Today was a GREAT Sunday. This is why I love serving in KIDS......

We started a new month, which means a new memory verse to dive into. (1 Timothy 4:12) After an awesome worship time and learning about Timothy's story from the stage, we went back to our small groups to discuss how God made each of us to have a unique story, just like Timothy. At the end of our group time, we all read the memory verse together and had a chance to practice looking up the verse in our bible. One boy was really eager to learn how to look up verses. I took some time to show him in detail how to look up the chapter and verse. I gave him a few other verses to try. After a few practices, he found it with no help and jumped up with both arms in the air, a look of triumph on his face, and shouted "I did it! I know how to look up memory verses in the bible!"  When his parents came to pick him up, he excitedly told them how he was learning to look up verses. 

I love how excited our kids get with everything. I love seeing them grasp a new concept, sharing what they learn, or to see them jumping for joy, making up their own moves, worshipping without a care to what those around them are doing. Our children worship extravagantly, hunger to learn more, and have an unyielding faith that I myself strive to have. They are not "worshippers in waiting" they are "worshippers now" so be sure to take the time to encourage them in their faith and lead them to worship now right where they are.

Our memory verse this month is 1 Timothy 4:12 "Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young. Set an example for the believers in what you say and in how you live."