Brody is going to talk about the unique chapel experience six of us experienced at Victorious today:
The six of us that are teaching at Victorious Nazarene always start our day with a short devotion with all of the teachers at Victorious. Yesterday morning during devotion the teachers decided to have a whole school chapel because they wanted us to be a part of it. It is amazing how flexible these teacher and their willingness to change their plans 15 minutes before chapel started just so we could experience this with them.
All of the students and teachers filled the chapel class by class. Everyone in the chapel got on thier feet, and we started to worship through singing. It was very neat to see that they like to worship the same way we do back home. Half of the songs we sang were in English and half were in Spanish. It was awesome to see my students help translate the meaning of the songs in Spanish to me to help me understand the meaning of the song. I do not think I ever stopped smiling during this chapel because of the joy and happiness I could see in all of the students.
During chapel at Victorious, different classes will prepare to present either a Bible verse or a song they have learned during the week. I have to give a big shoutout to Miss Christy and Miss Erin for getting on stage with standard 2 to sing and dance with them. The students really enjoyed to see us get involved with thier chapel and I know we enjoyed it even more. Overall, the word that comes to my mind to describe this experience was FLAWLESS.
Cassidy is going to tell us about her day:
Today was an eventful, tiring day to say the least. The day began by starting another day in the schools. I had the opportunity to observe Julia teach in her class which was an awesome experience. According to the principal at Faith Nazarene, Julia has a class with the most misbehaved children. She has had a lot of frustrations this week, but today she managed her class tremendously throughout her lesson. It was a great experience seeing one of my best friends accomplish a task when she was discouraged several times this week.
The students have stolen my heart. The more I get to know them, I am reminded of how hard it is going to be to leave. Earlier this week, I found out one of my students has special needs. My cooperating teacher said she doesn't know what's wrong, and she doesn't know what to do to better his education. I worked with him and found out he doesn't know the alphabet. My heart broke when I realized he sits in class all day and does nothing because he doesn't understand any of the activities. The worst thing is that he is supposed to graduate from primary school (which ends at 8th grade) next year. I have been eager to work with him, but since that day, he hasn't returned to school. Since next week is the last week in the school, I feel a little discouraged because I want to give him the one-on-one attention that is normally not available to him, and I'm running out of time. Yesterday for math, I taught on currency and foreign exchange. I had the chance to review with them today, and it was great to see how many students really learned and to whom I can give indivialized instruction. My school was released early, so five of the MVNU students were able to explore the town of San Ignacio. We found an awesome ice cream place that we later took the whole group to after seeing the Mayan ruins. There were so many beautiful sights and lots of steps to climb. It was interesting to physically see and learn about Belizean history. I know that during this trip I'm being stretched and learning to trust God more everyday. Shout out to my family and friends! I miss and love you all!
Love ,
Cassidy Wilson
Here are the devotions from Morgan:
Devotions tonight began with an excerpt from the book Authentic Beauty by Leslie Ludy. The story was called "An Unforgettable Wedding Night." This story was long, so I'll give you a summary. It started how everyone would imagine it would with a new husband and wife leaving their wedding ceremony to go back home and spend a very loving and intimate night together. However, when they made it home, there was unexpected twist waiting for them - a house full of trash bags and garbage thrown everywhere and all of the new wife's ex-boyfriends standing around.
While this story is extremely unlikely to happen, this happens quite often in our relationships with Jesus. Many Christians often pray for a deeper, more intimate relationship with Jesus, but we often fail to recognize the amount of trash we bring into our relationship. There is so much garbage in our hearts that Jesus can't walk through the door.
We focused on Galations 5:24 which talks about those who belong to Christ defeating flesh and all the passion and desires that come with it. We are able to become less while He becomes more. The majority of this garbage has been in our lives for so long, we are unable to recognize it without it the help of Jesus. I challenged our group to begin the process of taking out the garbage in our lives and moving to a more intimate relationship with Jesus. And while this will be a very painful and discouraging practice, we can have hope because Jesus already knows the trash we come with and is waiting for us to ask for His help to empty it. He has already died for the sin in our lives because living without us for eternity would hurt more than dying for us. He wants a deep relationship with us and it is only possible when we begin throwing out the other loves in our lives and our past mistakes. So, let's move towards the one man who is willing to die for our mistakes and join in a truly intimate relationship with Him.
Love,
Morgan
As you can tell, we are all enjoying our experience - spontaneity and all!
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