Huntington Elementary School

This past Tuesday we got the awesome opportunity to go perform and teach at Huntington Elementary School, a public school that is right down the street from our house! (We actually walked to the school, it was so close). A lady from Amy and Alyssa's church was kind enough to write a grant to have us come and perform U R Special (a short ballet based on Max Lucado's book) and teach some dance workshops for the kids. It is still so amazing to me that we got to go into a public school here in Central New York and share about the love of God, even though we didn't get to say it in so many words. But through the ballet they got a small picture of the way God loves us as our Creator and our Father.

We did the ballet 2 times for 2 different groups of kids, pretty much back to back (boy was that a workout!), and then had a little lunch break before splitting up to go teach the ballet workshops. That was pretty fun - I taught with Amy and Alyssa, and the kids paid attention pretty well! We actually taught three 40 minute workshops back to back, so by the end of it all we were definitely a little tired. Besides teaching them stuff like skips, chasses, the positions of the feet, etc., we also talked to them about the ballet, asking questions like, "did you understand it?" "who was caring in the ballet?" The thing is, since it is a public school, we can't share about the Lord openly, BUT if someone else asks us about it, we can share! And so in one of the classes, one of the kids did ask us - and we got to tell them that God is their creator and loves them because He made them! (To which the little girl next to me says, "but God died." I was a little shocked at that statement, before gathering my thoughts and saying, "yes, its true. But you know what? He came back from the dead He's alive!")

I'm praying that more doors would open for us to go into public schools and share the gospel, even if its somewhat of a secret mission, so to speak. :-)

~Gwen