What a wonderful regular Monday!

     Yesterday during worship, I celebrated with the children that it was a regular Sunday at Deerfield UMC. No big deal to them. But when I told them I was really excited because that meant tomorrow is a regular Monday and what does that mean for the children at Deerfield? They quickly replied, "Marvelous Magical Mondays!" So today at 3:30pm, we were back on our regular schedule for our children's ministry that meets weekly to teach them scripture through songs, stories, and puppets. It was a wonderful day to share hula hoops with the kids, and to teach them the story of Noah's Ark and what the promise is that comes everytime we see a rainbow in the sky. So next week, even though it's a holiday, and a very special one, we will be striving to keep our kids in their normal routine by staying with our instruction time at 3:30pm on Mondays. It has been a ton of fun! We have about as many grown ups that stay and help us each week as we do children and that is also wonderful. God is using the children of our church to put a smile on my face each week, and I know the other grown ups helping organize and teach each week feel the same way. Regular Mondays for us are awesome, and we praise God for each child who comes through the door of our church. We want to love them and share with them the good news of Jesus Christ. Next week, we will be starting to teach the kids all the books of the Bible and I know this will be a challenge, but the kids rise to the challenge and work hard. Thanks again to Connie Goff and Katie Grady for such great leadership to pull together our children's Christmas program. We made cd's of the kids singing and now the kids are playing their cd's over and over again, continuing to sing the songs like "God is always with you." Praise God that on a regular Monday, we have something exciting, life-giving being breathed into us that is just too good to keep to ourselves, so we want to share some of the joy from the kids of Deerfield UMC with you. Come join us. God is up to something musical and marvelous every regular Monday. For this, we give the Lord praise.