Alright, so I’m throwing it back to training week (since the blog wasn’t up and i couldn’t post but really wanted to)

Week one: day one
Well, I realized that God does not always do what we want. I mean, I knew that, but he reminded me of it, and also Satan is wanting to discourage us from spreading the good news.
One of my worst fears going into teaching 5 day clubs was that I would have a group with tons of kids and I wouldn’t know what to do! I figured however, that the first day of the first week would not be insanely busy…
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As me, jenny, and crystal (My partners sent from above) set up our equipment I was relieved because there were no kids waiting for us when we arrived, as I was thinking this to myself, our hostess came and said they were just coming back from the park… a little worrisome, but I figured, 7 kids can play at a park and its fun, so maybe there are only 7…. Well, a few minutes later I heard kids. Lots of them. I looked up and saw them running, and biking towards of, a crowd of them. I don’t remember what I thought in that moment, it was probably something like, “Lord help me.” We ended up having I think 17-20 kids in our club.
Not only did we have lotss of kids, but some of them did not speak English and quite a few of them were muslim. I was so happy that we had muslim kids at our club so that they could hear about jesuss, but it definetly made it a new challenge.

the clu8b went well and i think we had like 5 decisions that first day!

however, after that club i was discouraged. I didn’t know why.

we finished on time, everything went well, the kids listened fairly well, and we even had some decisions!! but i came home an was discouraged. and i realized that it was the devil trying to discourage me. i also realized that Satan is going to be doing what he can to stop us from telling these kids about Jesus.

i just want to encourage you, when you are feeling discouraged, scared, or tired, call out to God. he is bigger and stronger than Satan and will give you the strength to go on.

Andra Ramstead

Hey, my name is Andra Ramstead. This is my first year teaching 5 day clubs and i am really excited to see what God will do this summer. Prayer requests: (1) That i will not allow discouragement to get me down. (2) That i will trust God, wherever he leads. (3) That i will be able to calm down, when my thoughts are all over the place and i start to freak out.