Sunday Morning Impact

I feel like yesterday morning was one of the better Sunday Mornings that we have had in a while. Our game was one where kids put clothespins on their sleeves, and then it was basically a game of tag, trying to get their clothespins off. The last person with their clothespins were the winner. There is one girl, who comes about every other week. Every time she plays a game she wins, and she won again yesterday. There was a lot of energy during the game.
Nathan led worship, and did a great job. Like I said last time, he gets better every time he leads.
Duncan, one of our adult leaders, did the opener. Our last few lessons have been about doing ministry. Duncan is a helicopter pilot for the Army. He flies the Black Hawks. (every time I think "down" should come after "Black Hawk"). But his job isn't to go into areas and rain down bullets. He gets to go to Central America and bring aid to the people there. He helps build schools and roads for little communities. He helps kids and brings them clothes and food and candy. It's really pretty cool. He talked about different things that he has done. He showed a bunch of pictures of what they do. I know it's with the Army, but Duncan uses his talents (flying helicopters) to help people. He still gets to show the love of Christ by taking care of people who are less fortunate. That's what we want the kids to see. Most of them probably won't be missionaries who go out and plant churches in 3rd world countries, but they will be missionaries. Some might be teachers, or nurses, or doctors, or whatever. But where ever they are, they need to see that God can use their gifts and talents to help people.
Another of our leaders, Charles, played baseball. He went all over Central America and Mexico playing baseball, and then having the opportunity to share his faith with people. God can use any thing if we are willing to be used by him. Our scripture was in 1 Kings 17, about how a widow took care of the prophet Elijah. She used what little she had to take care of Elijah. God blessed her and her family because of her willingness to do what God wanted. We don't have to do super-big things in order to be used by God. Most of the time he uses us in very small ways, that nobody will ever write a book about. We just need to be willing, and look for the opportunities for God to use us.