Christian Union

Christian Union is the name for a new program the volunteers have started with kids from the Vissershok Primary School. They started it with 8 kids from the 5th and 6th grades. They meet twice a week and go through the basics of the Christian faith with them. It runs for the same period of time as a quarter in the school year. So they are just finishing with the first group of kids this week and will start with a new group of kids after the 2 week break in July. They use a variety of methods to teach; skits, songs, stories, brainstorming, small groups....and they usually give them a challenge at the end of the day that they follow up on the next meeting. Here is a sampling of some the things they covered:

• God - who He is, what His character is, etc.
• Jesus - birth, ministry, death
• the Holy Spirit
  
• how to pray

I haven't taken part in this session's Christian Union, as we only need 4 volunteers at a time doing the program and I don't work at the Vissershok School. But I did take part in one of the skits they did on prayer. I think its a great program. It gives the volunteers more time to get to know the kids and to go deeper into what the Christian faith is and how to live it out in their lives. Tomorrow is their last meeting and they are having a party - giving them certificates of completion and Bibles, that one of us has sponsored for them. I know the volunteers very much enjoyed putting together the program and carrying it out with the kids. This is a picture of the first class with the four volunteers who ended the program with them....