the first one
Practicum report #1 by Michael Berens
time spent this week- 1.5hr s.s, 1.5hr W.S., 1hr driving kids to youth group part of youth group- total hours- 4 hours
Our church is composed of about 40-60 elderly individuals. The youngest people that attend are some grandkids, but other wise it is a gap from a two year old to a sixty five year old. This was true until practicum students flooded the premises.
As of this semester there are three whole pews filled with college age students. You may not think that this would be a big deal, but when the closest thing to middle age in the church is nothing, then you notice something. What do you do when you have about fifteen students sitting around at 9:15? You stick them in a bible study. that is exactly what happened. It is actually ran by a professor of piano from Taylor. He does a great job integrating discussion into the topic of the week.
He started out the discussion by asking about break. I found this interesting because usually I frown upon small talk. I personally like to go straight for the throat and ask intentional questions. I say interesting because it worked like a rabbit's foot charm. You should have seen the room change. It went from these uptight, cold, eye averting, youngsters to just a bunch of casual college students sitting in a kitchen/ Sunday school room. Did i mention we were put in the kitchen? It is great though. On potluck days you can see the foods wafting their flavors at all the unsuspecting church members.
As we went through the discussion people's eyes started to droop and I would say that their eye lids may have gained weight because the started to close. I don't think it was the discussion that was tiering. I think it was college life taking its revenge on an early Sunday morning. What I really wanted to do was have everyone get up and take a jog in the snow. Maybe they could give each other white washes or something?
Now this leaves me with questions for you, my fantastic readers. (I thought I would encourage you in your responses by making you feel better about yourself)
1. Should college kids have Sunday school that early knowing there crazy lives?
2. Should we help students by asking about there sleep schedule and adding encouraging thoughts about getting to bed earlier?
3. What is actually the true problem? Is there even one?
time spent this week- 1.5hr s.s, 1.5hr W.S., 1hr driving kids to youth group part of youth group- total hours- 4 hours
Our church is composed of about 40-60 elderly individuals. The youngest people that attend are some grandkids, but other wise it is a gap from a two year old to a sixty five year old. This was true until practicum students flooded the premises.
As of this semester there are three whole pews filled with college age students. You may not think that this would be a big deal, but when the closest thing to middle age in the church is nothing, then you notice something. What do you do when you have about fifteen students sitting around at 9:15? You stick them in a bible study. that is exactly what happened. It is actually ran by a professor of piano from Taylor. He does a great job integrating discussion into the topic of the week.
He started out the discussion by asking about break. I found this interesting because usually I frown upon small talk. I personally like to go straight for the throat and ask intentional questions. I say interesting because it worked like a rabbit's foot charm. You should have seen the room change. It went from these uptight, cold, eye averting, youngsters to just a bunch of casual college students sitting in a kitchen/ Sunday school room. Did i mention we were put in the kitchen? It is great though. On potluck days you can see the foods wafting their flavors at all the unsuspecting church members.
As we went through the discussion people's eyes started to droop and I would say that their eye lids may have gained weight because the started to close. I don't think it was the discussion that was tiering. I think it was college life taking its revenge on an early Sunday morning. What I really wanted to do was have everyone get up and take a jog in the snow. Maybe they could give each other white washes or something?
Now this leaves me with questions for you, my fantastic readers. (I thought I would encourage you in your responses by making you feel better about yourself)
1. Should college kids have Sunday school that early knowing there crazy lives?
2. Should we help students by asking about there sleep schedule and adding encouraging thoughts about getting to bed earlier?
3. What is actually the true problem? Is there even one?
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