The majority of the children in our sponsor group attend one of the feeder schools in a slum community called Madanpur Khadar. Our travel team spent most of our days working at this particular facility. The administration asked our group to prepare fun crafts, songs, dramas, and Bible lessons for the students.
We taught our Bible lessons from 2 primary texts (Matthew 6:25-34 and Luke 8:22-25) and used those stories as a springboard for our crafts and dramas.
(ABOVE) Here is our group assisting in the kids' reenactment of our drama from Luke 8 (Jesus Calms the Storm). Our team "performed" the drama first for each class, then invited students to volunteer to act it out after us. The kids were timid at first, but by the 3rd round of volunteers they were all beside themselves with laughter and smiles! It was worth the exhaustion (our team did the drama 34 times in 4 hours-- WHEW!)
(ABOVE) These 3rd grade boys show off the flowers we taught them to make using tissue paper and pipe cleaners. It was to remind the children that God cares for them even more than the lilies of the field (from Matthew 6).
(ABOVE) These 1st grade boys help each other make bird masks from paper plates & feathers. This craft was to remind them that God cares for their needs more than the birds of the sky (from Matthew 6).We enjoyed serving the children in these creative ways, but also REALLY loved all our free time with the kids. Just loving on them in the hallways, on the playground, or by the drinking fountains. To see the children in the flesh after just knowing about them in our minds and on paper for so long was a gift. You can watch their little personalities come alive in their facial expressions, their voices, their mannerisms... how tall they are, where their desk is in class, who their best friend is, etc.
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