As the end of every week nears Becky says something to the effect, “Have you thought about the children’s message.” My standard answer is, “Not yet.” The conversation continues, She, “What are your preaching on.” Preacher, “Well, this week the gospel is on the feeding of the 5,000. The Old Testament lesson is on not wasting time buy ing food that doesn’t last, but eat what is good, namely the word of the Lord. The epistle begins Paul’s lament that his fellow Jews haven’t accepted Jesus as the Christ. That’s probably not good for a children’s message.”
So Becky looked on the internet, thinks about while watching the Cardinals and suddenly says, “Why don’t we get a couple packages of the gold fish crackers and five buns. You ask the kids if they could feed everyone in the congregation on five buns and two packages of goldfish. Then tell the story of the feeding of the five thousand. Then we will have the kids hand out grocery a bag to every family. Tell the people they can bring the bag back next week and put it under the cross and we will give it to a food pantry.
We were all set. When we got to church she saw in the bulletin an announcement that next Sunday is food for the needy Sunday. I said, “Somebody has been brining things together without our knowing it.” Then a couple who had been trout fishing, brought us a couple of fresh trout on ice. ”Why don’t you use the trout?” Becky suggested.
So we had a children’s sermon with five buns, two trout and a bunch of grocery bags that the two kids present handed out. We also gave the two girls a bag of goldfish crackers.
Sometimes more things work together than you first imagined.
Most everybody has figured out that most of the ideas for the children’s sermon come from Becky.
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