Monday, June 27, 2005

Finished

Well, my internship at Metro Ministries is officially over. I am coming home to AZ tomorrow.

Man, the last couple of weeks have been great. We had a lot of people come out to Sidewalk Sunday School. I had over 200 people on my site all three of the last three weeks. My second site has been having 60-75 kids. At the beginning of the semester we only had about 15 kids.

God is so Good. I have been offered an invitation to join the staff of Metro. I will be returning to NY in August for the summer camps.

Well, I will see you all in Phoenix.

Continuing the race
Bryan

Friday, June 3, 2005

Pictures

Here are some more pictures like I promised

Here I am teaching an object lesson about being led by God

Here I am teaching the four reasoms we come to Sunday School. I think I got my helpers attention.

Here is another member of our team, Jen, teaching the story with my worker, Charlie.

Here we are at my second site singing songs.

This is me at visitation at John Adams Houses.

This is Charlie doing visitation.

This is Charlie and his brother one of his sisters and a cousin.

My protege.

Good Night for now.

Thursday, June 2, 2005

Crazy Week

This has been the craziest week yet here at Metro.


Our Intern training is coming to an end so all our major assignments were turned in today so that they have time to grade them and return them to us in the next three and a half weeks. The main project was what they called a ministry portfolio. This included a scrapbook with pictures of the ministry, a written schedule for a typical week, part of a Sunday School lesson and five interviews with staff members. SO I was up late the last two nights finishing everything. ALso we had a skills test this week. We have to teach half of a Sunday school lesson to the instructors for a grade. it is also my week to help clean up all the dinner mess and set things up for breakfast. So it has been a very busy couple of days.

Yesterday was a bad day for the transportation department at Metro. One of the sidewalk Sunday School trucks had an electrical fire and completely burnt up. It is absolutely unusable. The truck that my division uses for Sunday school also had major damage. The stage wasn't secured and it fell out while My divisional leader was driving to our second SUnday School site. It caused fender damage to two cars and the truck my cost more to repair than it would to buy a new truck. So we are without a truck for the rest of the semester, and have to use a van. Today I basically had the morning off because I had all my projects done, but ended up spending the morning hauling stuff from our truck to the office and organizing it so we can use it in the truck.

Plus while we were driving home from the bronx today the bridge we use to get from the Bronx to Brooklyn was at a stand still. so we had to take a less direct route and ended up getting to church 45 minutes late. And in all the chaos that happened this week I forgot that it was one of the two wednesdays this semester that I was supposed to be in kids church. But not only did I forget but so did four of the other five people that were supposed to be there, so we got called in to the intern directors apartment and basically got our butts chewed.

Anyway this week was rough but last week wasn't so bad. It rained alot on wednesday so we set up our canopies and did several short Sunday school sessions. We even took a few kids into the truck for the lesson because it was raining so hard. THis was actually really cool. We sat the kids on our steps inside the truck. there were about six or seven kids. Then we taught the lesson. One of our props was a picture we drew of a truck about to run over a baby. ANd we said would you give your life to save this baby, Jesus gave his life to save you. A five year old girl noticed that there was not a driver in the truck we drew. When I asked if this truck were about to run over this baby what would you do, she said the trucks not moving there isn't a driver. Its amazing what some kids will notice.

It rained all week except Friday, so my site was the largest in our division last week we had about 230 kids total. God is so good. TO give you an idea of what I am doing here I am including a copy of my schedule in a typical weekTUESDAY
7:30 Intern Praise and
worship
8:00 Intern Class
9:00 Prepare truck for
the week
11:45 Lunch
1:00 Off to Patterson
houses for Sidewalk
6:30 Evening off

Wednesday
8:30 Prayer meeting
9:45 Intern class
11:45 Lunch
1:00 Off to Saint Mary’s
Park for Sidewalk
7:00 Church

THURSDAY
8:00 Intern class
9:00 Prepare lesson for
the following week
11:45 Lunch
1:00 Off to John Adam’s
houses for visitation
6:30 Virus Youth Church

FRIDAY
8:30 Staff Meeting with
Pastor Bill Wilson
11:00 Set up for Indoor
Sunday School
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Off to John Adams
Houses for Sidewalk
7:00 Rehearsal for Indoor Sunday School

SATURDAY
8:30 Morning rally
945 First session
1:00 Second session
4:15 Third session

SUNDAY
9:30 First Service
12:30 Second Service
3:30 Ride to The Bronx
for Church Set up
6:00 Bronx Service

MONDAY
DAY OFF!!!!
TUESDAY
7:30 Intern Praise and
worship
8:00 Intern Class
9:00 Prepare truck for
the week
11:45 Lunch
1:00 Off to Patterson
houses for Sidewalk
6:30 Evening off

Wednesday
8:30 Prayer meeting
9:45 Intern class
11:45 Lunch
1:00 Off to Saint Mary’s
Park for Sidewalk
7:00 Church

THURSDAY
8:00 Intern class
9:00 Prepare lesson for
the following week
11:45 Lunch
1:00 Off to John Adam’s
houses for visitation
6:30 Virus Youth Church

FRIDAY
8:30 Staff Meeting with
Pastor Bill Wilson
11:00 Set up for Indoor
Sunday School
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Off to John Adams
Houses for Sidewalk
7:00 Rehearsal for Indoor Sunday School

SATURDAY
8:30 Morning rally
945 First session
1:00 Second session
4:15 Third session

SUNDAY
9:30 First Service
12:30 Second Service
3:30 Ride to The Bronx
for Church Set up
6:00 Bronx Service

MONDAY
DAY OFF!!!!

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