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Our outreach at Peters Elementary School has had an interesting year. For various reasons, we have not been able to meet every week. As a result, we have only met the last Friday of each month.
This past Friday was very special. The team really wanted to give the kids an opportunity to share their needs, and we really wanted to spend some time in prayer with these kids. We made time for prayer, and the kids responded. Some of their needs were simple, some not so simple, but all of their needs were important.
The logistics involved with an outreach away from the church in a gym with 100plus kids at 8 in the morning can be daunting. The kids remember the mean things Cheto says, or watching a pickle light up like a light bulb. Those things are fun, and I will continue to do them. But nothing is more important than the time we spent with those kids on Friday morning, allowing them to pray and ask God for help, or ask Jesus into their hearts. It was an important reminder to the team as to why we do this, and the reason I will continue to do this for as long as I live in Tulsa.
Chuck E. Cheese is where our sixth grade catechism class is headed. Tonight, in an unprecedented move for me, I threw though gauntlet down and challenged the boys. I made a review sheet which covered all 42 of the questions we have covered this year in catechism, in matching form. Every one of them had to get 100 percent, one person misses one, and none of us were going. They did it. They answered every question, and explained to me what it meant. So, Chuck E Cheese's it will be. It is NOT a pizza party, we will eat dinner at the church or at home before we go. We will all get a handful of tokens, and when they are gone, they are gone.
