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  1. An equally important question is, do you know where you will be spending eternity if you were to die today? Yes, I know where I will spend eternity if I were die today. However, Today I wonder about the one I lost. IF I knew for sure there might be a lot about how I live would change?
  2. How do you know for certian where you will spend enternity? Recently my boss passed away from cancer and it was kind of sudden too. At work he was very good boss most of the time as bosses can be I guess. As I worked with him over the past fiver years really closely I had know him for the past ten years. So I got to know how he lived outside of work to. I learned that he was by no means any kind of saint but he did not push his way of life on any one he happy go lucky kind of guy. However his life was in no means one lead by Christ or so it seems. Now that he is gone from this world everone says well he is in a better place. That sounds good in comfomfting but I don't know for certian I don't think he might but it would be nice to know for certian. how do you deal with not knowing?
  3. ray

    TIC TOC

    Don't forget to change your clocks tonight. IT is Fall back 1 hour IF you don't change you will be an hour early for church. Also check your smoke detectors and change batteries.
  4. I know many are out there with no transpotation who love to come to church alomost anywhere if they could get there. But the transportation they do have to get them to church is not reliable. How do we recomend a TV pastor to them. They have no access to a computer but need to hear God's word some how and TV is the best avenue for them. Who can we reccomend since so many of them have bad raps. Thanks, God Bless, ray
  5. ray

    Sin

    Why do we put sin into classifications? some worse than others... true but if all sin equal what is different from lying to murder to stealing to not picking up the phone when your home. How do you know what sinner looks like vs the other? If they have truly repented and have shown and demonsrtated that they have changed and repented why do we set boundries on them? just curious these questions have run through my mind and want to know if there is any answers easy or hard?
  6. You say you have 3 to 7 students and 3 of them are siblings. What is age range range or grade level difference? This would makes for a whole new approach to teaching since you have cross grde levels. Find out what they are interested in and make their intrest some kind of positive reward sesytem. Since you have varied ages by least 3 to 4 years that does make a difference in activities that you should do. We had a class like this and some the non regualrs were girls so we split the classes and did boy classes and girl classes. When they got to point of maturity we blended the older one back together and kept the younger onse seperate. If they are very active children than I suggest getting a hands-on-curriculm instead of the old fashiioned lecture curriculm with pre made crafts. Most children do not learn that way anymore. To get the parent on your side this may sound harsh at first but if the child is rude make them sit in sunday school with their parents for few weeks. Either the parent will get the message or they will leave because there is no support for the staff for those that want to teach children were you are located. One year my dad taught the children about temple and the holie of holies by making it out of legos. one night because I had gone a mission trip was asked to share what ever kind money iad left over and maybe if i knew some foods they might want to try. and have the children help make the food. the kids loved it and and than made a presentation to show the church what they had learned. This made the paretns want to be more involved. Also have the children study the book of james or part of one of the gospels and and have a night to see who is smater the parents or the children on a given book of the Bible. One night we have bike safety night and have the kids make sure they can follow the course. Kids are allowed use whatever kind of bike or big wheel they know how to ride. This involves parent support as well interation with teacher support and family fun the learning of the BIble at in early age needs to be enjoyed not forced. This also builds relatioships with people who would not normally partipcate in childrens activities.
  7. Why remember that is a good question? If I look at the tradegy of the book Exodus in the story of the 10 plagues, why would God want us to remember past? What was the passover any way the but the death angle, who, came and killed the first born of all the house who did not have the protection of the lambs blood on their door. Yet we remember and honor this for almost 2000 years. Why do honor the death and remember His last supper? Because he told us too. Why should we remember 9/11? Because He gave us reason too. He just never said how and we must all do what we can to help us move on. For some of us we who 9/11 may have hit harder than others need more symbolism for them continue to move on with life. While it may feel strange to those of us it did not greatly impact we can never understand but we must support peoples need for healing. It is good day to promote peace and people will take advantage of that just like Christians take December to promote the birth of Christ and Easter to celebrate the memory of his death that was horrifying. I remember these time because of the healing that has come from the birth and death of Christ which is to bring to peace to the world.
  8. Living in political society these days and as a public school teacher we no longer celebrate halloween. We have a Fall or Autum festival. The only children or students that are allowed to dress up if they want are those in grades K - Seconds grade. Now as far as church goes I'm now never home on halloween because I'm at church were we have Trunk or Treat. The children are asked to dress up as Bible characters. There are some creative kids out there. Talk about a scary costume I asked one boy who he was dressed as and said he was a unic. (spelling) ouch my man manhood just hurt thinking about who he was. Parents were also creative in decorating the back of ther trunks. while others did no decorations the kids got there free candy which is what it halloween means to most kids is free candy. Then our church had a game night for the children and a bon fire we they got to make somores. For those that did not want to particpate in games they watched videos Charlie Brown in the pumpkin patch and Veggie Tales the one with song in it about "God is bigger than the boogie man....." That all lasted from about 6 to 9 pm than after that the middle to high school students had a lock-in at the church. Menaing with adult adult supervison they played games and had pizza and slept in the church or see who could stay up all night watching videos or playing board games or haveing prayer groups and small devos and of course they all got about 2 or 3 hours of sleep maybe. IF they were lucky and got more but that was not normal. For the kids that were afraid to sleep over in the church they had have their parents arrange to pick them up at midnight and those were the only time any could leave the building other wise it was locked up so no one gets in or out.
  9. The worst year of school was actually my second year of being a teacher when one of my students went home with a bad head ache. Her mom thought it was weird that the head ache did not go away and took her the ER. After several hours later and some testing they found out that that my student had a brain tumor and it was not fixable and only had 24 hours to live. She died the next day and when I found I was in total disbelief. I was amazed how the school came together and paid for the entire funeral expesenses for the family. That was a rough school year.
  10. It was my senior year in High school when I made state finals on the swim team. But wait theres more! my favorite event was the 500 meter free style or 20 laps of the pool. When you only have one lap to go they shoot the gun over your lane. This never happened for me till my senior year. It was fantastic. Not only that my dad was the starter guy with the gun and he got to shoot the gun over my head on the last lap. This was awesome school year for me.
  11. Its that time of the year again to head back to school. What has been your best or worst school experience?
  12. How does go about getting involved in church activity if they don't know what area of service they can do? How much involvement is to much involvement? Should I feel guilty if I only feel led to serve or be involved in one area? Why do we feel guilty if we are not doing 20 services for the church or make people feel that way?
  13. Well you know what stressed spelled backwars is right? Its my favorite.... it spells desserts. Bring on the desserts when I get stressed.
  14. ray

    I Love You

    IT is time to have this thread closed thanks again for all your help.
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