Twins

We had the twins this weekend. They've just turned 5, but they're on about a 3 year old level. I may be off on that a little.

They're cute boys. They love to sit in laps and give hugs.

That really makes this minisistry worth the effort.

Drive by Blessings

I was to take over this past Saturday for the Won by One kids. No one showed up. I was hoping to make it to church services but I was detoured. My friends the Kinneys' have 3 and 1/2 great kids [the 1/2 is going to be here in a few months]

The youngest-so far-is Princess Coleman. She is abour 1 1/2 years old. Anyway last week, I was walking past the nursery at the church and a very unhappy camper was in there. I held my arms out and Coleman came right to me. I got a few sugars out of her, and got her to calm down a little.

See, she has Down Syndrome. DS kids are the most loving kids in the world.

Her daddy, Scott, is our children's minister. One night at a special function at the church, he mentioned Colman's situation. Two-well intiontioned--elderly ladies in front of me had that "OH NO!!! Poor baby..." reaction. What they don't know is that DS kids are a true blessing. They do not know "hatred". Of course, it can be argued that no one knows hatred and that it has to be taught, but it's different w/ these kids. They just love. PERIOD.

I thank God for this "side effect" of DS. Maybe we can all learn something from them.

In fact, I think I'll cut and paste this into my other blog.

How many kids was that again?

I was able to work with the WXO kids at church last night. It was wonderful as usual. We had two. They're 4 year old twins. They're autistic.

Towards the end of the service, they got just a little anxious looking for their daddy so they kept running out of the room. One of the adult leaders for a different department had to make like a hockey goalie to stop them from getting out of the children's area.

Sounds bad right? Well not really. Not when both kids kept giving the grown-ups [yes that includes me] hugs and kisses.

I love these kids.

Won by One and that alone...for now

I've been working with the Won by One [Special Needs] class at my church's main campus for about three years now. For the past 7 - 8 months I've also been working with 2 year olds at our North Charleston campus. This past Sunday I decided to quit the 2 year old's ministry.

I love the kids. But, my heart isn't in it. It's fun, it's good but my hear is with those special needs kids.

Maybe we'll get something for special needs kids started at North Charleston...if so I am SO there.

What a God

My church had 34 services over the weekend. Now that includes satellite campuses, so it's not that we did church 34 different times.

Anyway, I wound up working 3 services with my Won my One kids. What a blessing those kids are.

They seem to understand that no one is perfect and it's OK with them that I and you too, screw up at times.

This was Easter. And at Easter we celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus. In a sense we can celebrate the fact that we've all second chances. I messed up recently. I changed my voice mail greeting and said "Thanks for calling. For English press one, for Spanish hang up and learn English." Here's why that was dumb. On Friday I saw that I had a missed call on my cell phone. It was a place I'm trying to get a job. They did not leave a message.

I'm thinking that it's possible that they were put off by my greeting. I'm going to try to call on Monday and a friend from church that works there will try to pop in to the HR offices and say something.

Hopefully, I'll get that 2nd chance.

YouTube - In My Language

This was found on You Tube. It is a video documentary made by an autistic lady.
Very eye opening, and at the same time I closing.

YouTube - In My Language

Amazing Gracie Part II

Last night our Bible verses were from Matthew. So I told the story...

One day some men came to Jesus and asked Him what the most important things were that God told them to do.

Jesus told them that there were two things:
1. Love God with all your heart.
2. Love others.

So while Nathan laid on the floor [unusual for him, he was tired I guess] and Colin played at the sink [turning the water off and on] and our other leader Miss Maggie [Gracie's mom by the way] made sure that Colin did not fall or burn himself with the hot water, I asked Gracie who she loved.

"Colin"
"Really, who else?"
"Nathan"
"Wow! Who else??
"Owen" [Owen wasn't even there this week]
"That's great. Who else?" [by this point, I'm wondering when she'll say Jesus or God]
"Momma!"
"You love your mom? I think that's great. Who else?"
"I LOVE YOU MR. ROGER"

That made my night. It was so worth it to be there.