On Sunday, April 18, our children shared how praying is our way of "talking to God" and how He ALWAYS listens. Brother Clayton Samuels read The Lord's Prayer by Tim Ladwig, which told the story of a father and daughter who go to help an elderly neighbor. The words "On earth as it is in heaven" find the parent and child patching and painting the neighbor's fence, mowing and raking the lawn. The pair stop to have lunch on the porch stoop ("Give us today our daily bread"), and they feed the leftovers to the pigeons. The father refuses payment ("Forgive us our debts"), and the daughter returns a gold medallion she's found in the grass ("and lead us not into temptation") to the neighbor who lost it. The neighbor, in turn, clasps a necklace with the medallion around the girl's neck. We discussed each line of the prayer so that the children will not just be able to recite the prayer, but actually understand what they're asking.
After rehearsing "Holy, Holy, Holy" (also posted on the blog), which the children will sing next week, parents were invited in to help their little ones create the Lord's Prayer angels.
Special thanks to our newest Children's Worship volunteer Phanenca Babio who was on hand and was especially great at helping our nearly 20 little ones stay on task.
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