Today was a wonderful day(for me) but for the other leaders of the preschoolers was an entirely different story. Me, Jeremy, Becky, and Trina are in charge of the "itty itty bittys" in the preschool. Our childrens' ages range from 2-5 and they are the most precious children; they are truly a gift from God(as well as all of the other children). Kathy and Sam are in charge of the other "itty bittys" and their ages range from 4-5. On this particular day the "Texans"(Trina, Mary and Becky) were doing a special bible study for the teachers at the preschool, which left me, Jeremy, Sam, and Kathy in charge of 36 children. Jeremy was leading the bible study today and everything was absolutely perfect. We played follow the leader most of the time and Jeremy allowed each child to have a turn at being the leader(so they would not cry). All of the children , amazingly, did as they were told and stayed in line. All was going well until the end, and that it when it happened....utter chaos!!!!
Kathy and Sam were teaching the bible study and everything was going well... until the glow and the dark stars. Kathy had made these glow in the dark stars, that said God loves you in romanian(moldovian). She decieded that she would give it to them as a present, and they all loved it..at first. They were cupping their hands and putting it up to their eye to see if it glowed in the dark, but it was not working. One child had the idea to go into the building and see if it would glow in there, which it did. Then they all made a mad dash to the building and locked themselves in, and left all of us who were in charge outside. Kathy had brought some candy and thought that it would be a great idea to coax them out of the building, which it turned out to be a huge mistake. As they were passing out the candy they heard the childern crying and figured out that it was because they could not have the same exact candy. It was all down hill from here... The children grew very angry and began to throw their stars on the ground and tried to break them.
All the while Jeremy and I were having a wonderful time with our "itty itty bittys" and our wonderful oasis became disrupted. I was passing out animal cookies to our children for being good and the "itty bittys" saw this and ran over to me to get the cookies, and began to push the little ones out of the way. This just made things worse. By this time we were all very frustrated with the children and wanted the "Texans" to hurry up with the bible study so they could come out and help us. When they finally came out we were so happy cause we knew that we could leave. Dispite this have been a rough time for us the texans had a wonderful time with the teachers during the bible study(you will hear more about it part doi(2).
I truly feel that the first part of the day was a spiritual warfare because satan was doing everything that he could possibly do to disrupt the teachers' bible study and he did not suceed(Praise be to God)!!!!
All in all it turned out to be a wonderful day!!!
Please be in prayer for the children, that their spirits would not troubled and will overcome any attacks from satan. Also for our team mates that we will have strength and patience for the rest of the week and that we will continue to stay in good health.
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Don't worry about temporary setbacks. Just keep doing your best and God will bless it in his own way. Trust in his Word for direction: "Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal.." Phil 3:14 and "I can do everything through him who gives me strength." Phil 4:13
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