- Monday was Kevin's birthday so all the interns decided to spend the night together. To celebrate we made him jello cake and then went to the new movie Brave. I think we all enjoyed our night together.
- Tuesday was a pretty normal day, spending our afternoon in the prayer room. For the evening we spent our time interceding over Kansas City and our different places of service.
- Wednesday afternoon after our manuscript study Emily and I welcomed around 10 kids into the Faust house for the art club. That was the most we've ever had, so we were really excited. We spent time creating books. The kids had a lot of fun painting and coloring, creating their covers. It was a lot of fun for Emily and I as we watched the kids create.
- Early Thursday morning we had our second running challenge. It has been terribly hot down in Kansas City, as I'm sure it has been through out the United States. It was still pretty hot at 6:00 in the morning, but we did!
- Most of the interns left for the weekend, so only three of us were left. On Friday night we had our usual movie night, which was a lot of fun. We had quite a few people over for the night and watched Thor.
- Saturday a few of us practiced shooting a bow and arrow, which was fun especially since I haven't done that since high school. That night all the interns that were left for the weekend and a couple of staff members went out to eat at Lew's Bar and Grill. The food was soooo good! After that we walked around the neighborhood we were in and then played Loaded Questions back Ryan's house. It was sad that not all the interns could enjoy the weekend with us, but it was we still had fun!
I wanted to expand more on the ways God has been leading me as I work with my little kids. If you remember I have been spending a lot in prayer, asking for wisdom on working with these wonderfully, energetic boys. My first week working them I was really passive and it was really hard to get anything accomplished. That's when I started getting really strict. I felt like I was constantly yelling at them to be quiet and to sit down. This seemed to be effective and I justified by thinking that I was getting stuff done. In the middle of the week I felt really convicted of this, not necessarily saying that I shouldn't me strict at all, but that my heart posture behind it was not life giving, for me or the kids.
Once this was brought to my attention I spent time asking God what He wanted me to do instead. As I sat with this question I was reminded of how Jesus taught, with a lot of questions. I then felt like I heard, ask questions. I wasn't really sure what this meant, so I asked Him to expand on it, but got nothing. This all happened one morning before I went to serve, so I tried to make myself aware of different places where God was inviting to ask questions as I taught.
That day the kids were really talkative and squarely, like usual. It would have been really easy to get frustrated, which I'm pretty sure I did a little bit, but then I was reminded of what God had spoke to me earlier that morning. Once I finally got their attention and got them to sit down I explained to them that they couldn't always be doing that. I then asked them if they thought it was fair for them to get checkmarks if they continued to do what they were doing. A couple of them didn't like that idea, but most of them agreed, so that is what we did. This helped me to not be passive, but to discipline with a pure heart. The kids also knew my expectations.
I have also had other opportunities to ask questions while I am trying to teach. Sometimes it is asking them simple questions. Other times it has been asking them to help me in different ways. It has been working out really well actually. Thank you God!! It is so cool how He answers our prayers when we ask.
"For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened." -Matthew 7:8
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