The Holy Day...

So the last couple of days have been jam packed with all kinds of activities!! Since Friday is the holy day in Egypt, we went to church. That is actually part of my internship, teaching the children's church for Heliopolis Community Church. Mostly foreigners attend this church because it is an English-speaking service, but there are a few Egyptian families that attend. So Thursday, we went over to the Wommack's house to prepare everything for Friday morning. We have some children's church curriculum, but it is kind of cheesy and the church we go to is not Pentecostal so some of the stuff in the curriculum isn't appropriate. For example, in the puppet skit for this week, one of the puppets was talking about being a "super Christian" because he could speak in tongues. Well, this church definitely does not believe in speaking in tongues nor are they very charismatic so we had to tone down a lot of the material:) This was fine because we had way more fun coming up with our own stuff!
I put to use my stock of camp songs I have ingrained into my memory from working at Camp Berachah for two summers and the kids LOVED them!! It was so much fun watching them dancing around singing silly kids songs...you can even watch the video of one of the songs above. It was about 111 degrees by then so after jumping around and doing crazy motions to the songs, I looked like I had stuck my head in a water barrel by how much I was sweating:) Apparently the children's church is usually not that active and they are just used to hearing a story, eating snacks and doing worksheets. So the kids really enjoyed being able to jump around, be loud, and have fun. We had planned to do a game, then sing, learn the memory verse, tell the story of the Good Samaritan, review the verse and do a word search puzzle, but the service was shorter than normal and we only got the verse. At HCC (Heliopolis Community Church) they have everyone joined together for the first part of the worship service, then they stop in the middle of worship and do announcements. On this particular Friday, there was a baby dedication, so since that took longer than normal we were cut short on time. It was totally fine though and luckily we were able to teach them the verse so they got something spiritual out of children's church besides how to sing silly songs:)
There was one boy who had the "I'm too cool for school" attitude and I went up to him after we were done and he was like "Could we pleeaasseee have a sane teacher next week?" Ha! I told him "Nope, not possible. Plus these other girls will be just as crazy as I am, so you're out of luck." Poor guy. Stuck with crazy American girls all summer. I'm sure deep down, he really does like our insaneness, he just has an image to keep up, thats all:) If he thinks that was crazy, then he doesn't know that this was a mild version of how we will normally be...haha.
So yes, our first church service went very well and I am so thankful for what God has been doing since I've been here. He has proved himself faithful to me and opened my eyes to so many things already and I am remain open for him to use me in whatever ways he deems best.