 
3/8/15: Filling in for my
friend Joelle Sobngwi (when she was in Tanzania) leading Sunday School at Église
évangélique libre de Yaoundé (Free Evangelical Church of Yaounde). After
dramatizing the story of “Jesus Calms
the Storm” and singing, Grandma Gracie chats with children as they work
on their Bible story coloring sheet. Grandma and I wear our ‘International
Women’s Day’ fabric on this annual celebration day.
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3/22/15: “The Big Catch”. Joelle translates as I share
the Bible story of Jesus telling his disciples to cast their nets one more
time after catching nothing all night.
Left: paper cut to illustrate the
multiple fish caught. Right: The children are fascinated with my fish
props.
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Pastor (Joelle’s
brother, seated on right) had asked me to introduce myself on April 5, share what
I was doing in Cameroon relating to Bible translation and at the church plus a
little on my testimony. Being a French speaking church, an interpreter was necessary.
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Children helped me tell the Easter story as they opened
each resurrection egg and told the significance of the 12 objects (donkey,
silver coins, cup, praying hands, leather strip, thorn crown, nails, dice,
spear, white cloth, stone, empty egg). The exciting part was to see the number of
children who raised their hands indicating they prayed the salvation prayer
for the first time.
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Bible
story review game: Joelle held up each item related to the Easter story; I
called on a child to tell about the object. When they answered correctly, the
child chose a blue or pink egg with points for their team; paper eggs were
placed on a pocket chart held by a helper.
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A potluck dinner followed the morning service. Delicious Cameroonian food was enjoyed
from the pews.
My favorite this day was a mixture of vegetables and meat inside of roll of deep fried dough. YUM!
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