Church was pretty good today. I mean, all of us in leadership, like on the worship team and youth group etc..., really think the Lord is trying to do something. All of us think that something is happening, but we don't know what it is... I guess that's how it is with the Lord... he doesn't always tell his secrets until it's the best time, you know?
The worship team is steadily moving into a creative unit...since Josh and I haven't been on it officially for long. We've been working on new songs and sounds and the theme really is us trying to worship the Lord in spirit and truth ourselves first so that the congregation will follow. We do want to sound good and pleasing to the ear, but we want to be so much more than that.
Today's theme and sermon was "Give us clean hands." Repentance and righting relationships.
On another note, I can tell it's the end of the semester. My brain has officially reached it's knowledge capacity and I am ready to relax and...basically read the material I want to and not have homework.
I just have a few projects left, including teaching a lesson tomorrow for the 8th graders. We've been studying the Holocaust and I wanted to think of a way to make it more relevant for them today.
I'm showing parts of the movie Mean Girls with Lindsay Lohan. I'm skipping over the inappropriate parts and showing them what discrimination and prejudice looks like in high school in 2008. My last lesson this semester. I'm gonna miss those kids. :( I went hiking with them all on friday...it was fun! Nice day. A bit windy, but nice.
I'm so ready for my own classroom, though. Well... I know I'm not perfect as a teacher being a rookie, but I'm ready to at least try. There's a dilemma in the works with WHO I'll be student teaching with next semester, which will be my mentor teacher, so please pray for that.
And another note, on Thursday I took Chris out of the classroom. The teacher really didn't want to deal with him and was like, "Ashley, take him out in the hall and have him read the assignment silently." Oh, boy, it was so great! Chris is a low-level reader and I was able to coach him and help him figure out the meaning of words and connect parts of the reading to itself and to him... and he got it! He even did the writing assignment on his own... I gave him the assignment sheet and said, "Be right back." And when I came back, he was nearly finished. I think this kid has been one of the hardest yet most rewarding student I worked with this year semester.
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