One of the exhaust hoses on our furnace came loose and leaked water all over the laundry room and furnace room floors, so I decided to hold Confirmation upstairs around the kitchen table yesterday. It’s been a balmy -42F with windchill, so Jon decided that it might be nice to offer the kids hot drinks when they came. (They like him now and my 2nd year kids hate me less.) We were talking about some basic New Testament facts, Christ’s death, and Christ’s resurrection.
The Good
-Getting through the lesson for both classes with some discussion time.
-My 2nd year kids being very good about the announcement that they have to help with the Passover Seder
-Two of my 2nd year kids volunteering to be readers
-My 2nd year class actually seeming like they were having fun.
-My first year students actually being willing to discuss things.
The Bad
-My first year students wanting to discuss embalming and the medical reasons for the crucifixion killing Christ. Eating has not been pleasant for the last 24 hours. 🙁
The Funny
-One my students singing VBS songs for certain terms we were discussing in the 2nd year class. (It was kind of distracting but quite fun.)
-Responding to the “Jeremiah was a bullfrog” that she was singing with “yeah… he was a good friend of mine”.
I think that our opening song should be something like “Pharoah, Pharoah” or “Father Abraham”. I know that the kids would probably not do it because it would mean looking like fools in front of their friends, but duuuuuude… it would be *FUN*.
some of my kids learned the “minnesota version” of “pharoah, pharoah” at this service camp thingy a couple of years ago (their former youth leader was from minnesota). basically it’s the song but after saying, “pharoah, pharoah. oh won’t you let my people go!?” they like grunt and then do this hand thing saying, “Ya! Sure! you betcha!”
i was amused. 🙂
there’s also the “uff da” version. 🙂
Pharoah Pharoah. What a fun song… although very easily stuck in my head. :S