Ok so I'm particular about things being structured and organized and well thought out, right?
So last year I was like "I'm gonna help these missionaries & make sure they are prepared for their trip next year". And I'm not so sure I realized what I was getting myself into. I set out to design a curriculum for them to deliver when they traveled and ended up also planning a curriculum for training them. Then got muscled into facilitating the training.
Well I did my research on VBS curriculum and tried to use my teaching skills to take the "invented wheel" and tweek it for contextualized purposes and to say the least...THAT is a task in and of itself.
Well todayy was my first day executing the first of three trainings and well "I'm not one to toot my own fladooginhoogin" but it was quite fun and engaging if I do say so myself!
I had the trainees open up with a memory verse game, then followed that with a game called "Minefield" where they had to lead each other through a minefield while their partner wore a blindfold. That was hilarious. Our debriefing of that activity served its purpose to help them connect their actions with that of missions.
Next they did a bible search matching activity and unfolded God's heart for missions and finally we ended with a crafty session making Gospel bracelets. I must say, I can't wait to facilitate my 2nd session next month.
In the mean time, designing a VBS curriculum is a bit more tedious and I'm only 1/5 of the way done. But the thought of what's left to plan, keeps me excited & who knows...maybe my gifts and desires to be a teacher who teaches other teaches best practices is well on its way.
