In Maggie's Sunday School class, the lesson today was about John the Baptist, and how he prepared the way for Jesus by telling people that the Savior was coming, and that they should repent of their sins. While I do believe it's important that children know about that, I was a little surprised that this was today's lesson, since the overall theme of these weeks leading up to Christmas is "Preparing for Christmas." John preparing the way for Jesus struck me as only loosely related to Christmas, since at the time of the first Christmas, John was maybe 6 months old, according to the Gospel of Luke.
Anyway, later in the day, Maggie was playing with the craft she'd made in class. It's a paper plate with a drawing of water on it and 2 Popsicle stick puppets, 1 man and 1 woman. The plate is cut so that you can stand the puppets up in the water. Not having been one of the teachers today, I asked her what her craft was. She said, "This is John the Dunkinsman, and this is the lady he's dunking. And then they get married." Okay, so that probably wasn't exactly the lesson from class, but hey, at least she got that he dunked people and not doughnuts. Lesson learned, as far as I'm concerned.
Anyway, later in the day, Maggie was playing with the craft she'd made in class. It's a paper plate with a drawing of water on it and 2 Popsicle stick puppets, 1 man and 1 woman. The plate is cut so that you can stand the puppets up in the water. Not having been one of the teachers today, I asked her what her craft was. She said, "This is John the Dunkinsman, and this is the lady he's dunking. And then they get married." Okay, so that probably wasn't exactly the lesson from class, but hey, at least she got that he dunked people and not doughnuts. Lesson learned, as far as I'm concerned.
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I was intrigued that the lesson was about John the Baptist as well. I was thinking the whole time, but he was only 6 months older!
Thanks for all you guys do to teach our kiddos about JC and His boys.
Michelle
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