Blog Four:  Children

Sandra is 8 years old.  She is the third of three children whose parents are divorced. Money is very scarce in her family.  Her life is difficult and many times she’s wondering around town by herself.  Her father takes care of them during the day; at night she sleeps at her mom’s.  Her parents literally divided the house when they divorced, so she actually sleeps “next door”.

She asks Yudit about all the things in the church’s kitchen, wanting to know what they are used for.  A few minutes later Yudit hears her inviting a friend to the church’s kitchen.  “Come see Yudit’s kitchen, she is a multi-millionaire. There is nothing in the kitchen at my house.”

Sandra lives in the house behind Maite’s (the Director of Children’s ministries) and started coming to the children’s small group at Maite’s house.  Eventually Sandra started coming to the Children’s Celebration service on Sundays.  She’s full of questions; piecing the world together by observing  and asking about all she sees. 

“I want to go with the young people to the missions on Saturday.  I want to be a missionary and how can I learn to be one if I don’t go?”

So to a mission she went with the children’s choir.  She had a solo.

“Here, take the microphone back,” she told her teacher, “I don’t want to use it.”

“But what if you became a missionary and have to talk to a lot of people?  They won’t hear you without a microphone”

After some consideration, and looking around and thinking about it she turned to the teacher and said, “Well, in that case, I guess I better start getting used to it.”

~ Rachel