Thursday, 23 April 2009

• Oh Mr. Sun...

  Spring is slowly slipping into summer. The sun decides to come out every so often, giving the students on campus reason to don their chacos and shorts. Not that the chacos ever really came off in the first place, though. Winter doesn't seem to discourage the inner-mountain in the students here.

  With the warm weather has come a new cascade of outside activities. Last weekend, my boss Jonathan Mobley organized a 5K around campus. Living on a mountain creates more than a few challenges integrated into the course... such as the large, STEEP hill leading up to the main building. I saw cross-country runners panting and groaning their way up that hill. Thankfully, I wasn't in such pain. Mobley had me directing traffic and cheering the runners on from the sidelines. I still got the free t-shirt... that's all that really matters :)

          

  Recently, I was able to work with some inner city kids in downtown Chattanooga. A handful of friends were creating this art project and teaching the children about the seven days of creation. For each day of creation, a group of kids painted a huge square canvas. The canvases were displayed at their school, church, and here on campus. I had a group of four girls ranging from ages 4-8... they were QUITE energetic. After teaching them the 3rd day of creation, the girls riffled through National Geographic magazines and drew everything they could think of about land and water.
  
  
  
  One of my favorite parts of the afternoon was when I explained water to this little 5 year old girl. She excitedly dashed out of the building and stretched her arms up to the sky to catch the rain falling down. "Rain!" she giggled. I love getting to the nitty gritty of the Bible and watching it come alive for these kids.

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