Sunday School: Calling the 12 Apostles

It's Sunday, so time for Bible class again! Today we were talking about Jesus calling the apostles. We played a matching game (pelmanism) with the 12 apostles as our activity today. We also enjoyed singing some of our favourite songs.  The one song that is requested every week (so now I just start with it) is My God is So Big (so strong and so mighty...).

We also practiced some new-to-us songs that we've been learning: the Sea of Galilee song (they love trying to keep up with all the hand movements) and I am a C-H-R-I-S-T-I-A-N. We also sang a song about Jesus calling the disciples, but it was set to the tune of Jesus Loves Me, so it was really easy to learn. 

I've mentioned before that I've been using the Mission Bible Class curriculum the last couple of years, although rather loosely these days as the kids in my Bible class are all twelve years old now, and we rarely have younger visitors, so we've started reading the stories directly from the Bible instead of me telling them as a story, and discussing the Bible discovery-bible-study style. One thing I really like about Mission Bible Class is that they have videos of people teaching a lot of different children's songs, so it's easy to teach new songs. 

Here is the curriculum: 

https://missionbibleclass.org/

Here are the videos:

https://youtube.com/c/MissionBibleClass

Sunday in Ngarash

It was a beautiful afternoon, so I walked home from the school today.  It takes me about an hour to make the walk if I'm not rushing.  I'd like to walk more often, but going in the morning I'm usually in a hurry, and other than on Sunday, it's usually dark by the time I leave.  It's mid-dry season here, so it's getting pretty dusty and the grass is brown.  It's still pretty cool (highs in the low 70s, so in the 60s a lot of the day, which is as cold as it gets here), though, although it should start to warm up soon. 

I like the area between the school (in the Ngarash neighborhood) and town; it's mostly farmland with the higher slopes of the mountain on one side and long views out over the valley and distance smaller mountains on the other.