Our theme at St. John this year is For The Coming Generations – looking ahead the future children who will need to hear the Gospel. It’s a bit much for preschoolers to grasp, so my angle is to show that we all used to be little, and one day we will be grown-ups, too. I’ve asked teachers and ministry staff to give me a picture themselves when they were little, and this has been an on-going display.
I’ve also asked them to think of a faith memory – something faith-related from their childhood that they remember. The one I’ve posted is that when I was little my parents used to stand by our bedroom doors at the end of the hallway and we would all sing our prayers. “Now the light has gone away” and “Dear Father in heaven” (that’s my nephew).
The memories I am not sharing are 1) I would fall asleep with my head on my mom’s lap in church and have the same dream: standing at the top of the outside steps and starting to fall. I would stop myself by (in reality) stomping my foot on the floor. Good grief, I hope I was a little kid rolling off the pew, otherwise I would have had to have been a teenager. Another memory I can’t share: Saying I needed to go to the bathroom during the service then dorking around in the basement. Another? My dad was the pastor, so on weekdays I would go next door to the church and perform small, private concerts from the pulpit to my adoring fans, sometimes with the microphone on.
Deborah says
Where’s your 7th grade picture?
Brad says
I loved all the singing at church. We sang in Sunday school, then during the service, I’d be up in the balcony with my parents and the organ would be right behind me while we sang.
Peggy says
That theme is awesome! I love to see pictures like that….pictures thru the years. Adding a memory is gold!
I loved VBS as a kid. I loved the songs, the stories & the craft. Afterwards, while the parents were cleaning up, the kids would go outside and catch lightning bugs. I never grabbed one. I just ran around.
Lauren's mom says
This post made me cry…happy tears. I am thankful that your faith is strong and that you are sharing it with the little ones.
Sometimes I still sing those two songs to myself at night.
Beth says
Lauren’s Mom’s comment made me cry happy tears! 😀