For a friend

Last week I sang, performed small sketches & monoluges, and hosted the VBS for Galilee Baptist Church. I didn't expect to be doing so much but a friend had asked me for my help. I knew she wouldn't ask unless she seriously needed the help so I agreed.

Besides it was fun! I had the opportunity to get children of all ages excitedly screaming about everything from the daily slogan & theme to raising money for the churches missionary fund and even sling shots & mangos. I was surrounded by positive people who believed in me and encouraged me with ideas & appreciated me. Despite all the work the environment at church was great and the people were wonderful.

Not to say it was easy. I don't have great time management skills and I was trying to juggle making annoucements on stage, getting speakers & singers up on stage, and put lots of energy & enthusiasm into my brief minutes of opening the evening & dismissing the group to go through a gauntlet of activites we had set for them. A time or two I didn't say what I meant to and had to apologize for giving misinformation during an annoucement. I noticed a couple nights everything I said felt canned & ungeniune. After the first night I remember wondering just how good I done up there and was in need of some feedback or encouragement and I didn't get any until the next night.

At a couple points in time I caught myself remembering when I was child & how programs ran & how well leaders seem to do. For some reason as a child I thought the adults running the program were professionals who had done this all their lives. I remember thinking they were trained and seemed to pick up what they did naturally & effortlessly. They made everything look so incredibly easy. Now I wonder if they were more like me. Were they thrown into a program because of obligations? Did they have some experience with crafts, or singing, or speaking here and there but no official training? Did they have a passion to be involved in the progam & have a love for children? Or did some of them do it just to help a friend?