I have been volunteering in the children’s ministry of my church for about 5 years. For the past 3 Easters, I volunteered to help with the festivities for the kiddos. My church goes all out for Easter: activities include a bouncy house station, blow up basketball games station, an ice cream/video station, bible trivia station, and lastly, the group games and tattoos station, which I was in charge of this year. In the group games/ tattoo station, there was a huge box outlined in tape and divided in two, filled with colorful plastic balls. The kids were to be divided in two teams, hence why the box was divided in two, and the object of the game was for the kids to throw as many balls to the other side as they could, and the side with the least amount of balls would win the game. They had about a minute to do it. I had to facilitate this game and make sure everything ran smoothly. It was a little chaotic at times as kids were already starting to throw and kick balls before I even gave instructions, but overall it went well. The first graders followed instructions the best (LOL). As a first year teacher, I’ll be the first to tell you, managing a group of kids is no easy task haha but thank God for the teacher helpers and volunteers who helped keep the kids on task. After the game, the kids went to the tables and chairs in the back. The tables were filled with different tattoos, and the kids got to choose one, and put it on.
Full Circle Moment: While facilitating the games, my station helper handed me a microphone, being that the room was pretty big and there would be a great amount of children. It helped significantly with running the games and projecting my voice to reach everyone. When I finished facilitating the games, I had a full circle moment. These games took place in the church’s chapel. Years back, during my teenage years, I suffered with severe social anxiety, and I remember being in this same chapel, during youth service events, very anxious. During praise and worship, I was too scared to sing out loud or even lift my hands. I was always concerned about who may be looking at me. It was terrible, and I sometimes felt like God did not care, because I was not seeing results as quickly as I wanted to. But here I was, many years later, on the MICROPHONE, leading games, to a large number of kids, very boldly and very confidently. I told my mom in the car, “God got me on the microphone.” And only He could get the credit for that. What better day than RESURRECTION SUNDAY, to fully be in awe of the resurrection power that is available to all of us, and is in work in all of us, giving us the strength and power to do things we could never do on our own. You may be in a situation that seems very impossible and difficult, and may wonder where God is. He’s there with you, and can already see you totally delivered and free from what is binding you, though you may not be able to at the moment. With God, your situation will always end in VICTORY, so as my pastor always says, “If it’s negative, GOD’s not done. And if God is not done, you’re not done!”
I also wanted to share my Easter meal. My family has been requesting some roti and curry duck for so long, haha. My mom made some bussup-shut roti, curry duck, channa, and curried potatoes. It was sooooooooo yummy. Enjoy this picture.
Thanks for reading. He is Risen!!!!
Dominique 