Perhaps you remember the song. Anyhow... I want to ask for prayers as well to allow the Holy Spirit to come over me.
I'm a confirmation class teacher, or have been for 8 years. After I moved, I haven't yet picked it up again, but each year I go back to my old parrish for something that is called 'krikday' 'Krik' is the Dutch word for jack, I think. The thing you use to lift your car a bit when the tire is flat and you need to replace it. What it is is a meeting where the children who are readying themselves for confirmation from different parrishes come together. The numbers vary from about a hundred to about twohundred children. It's ment to push up faith, to be a little encourager in the last 'miles' before confirmation, before the Holy Spirit, hence the name.
Each parrish has a different theme that the teachers are responsible for, mostly it are symbols of the confirmation or the Faith like oil, water, fire, hands etc.
In groups of about 20 we get the children together to talk to them for half an hour before they move to the next theme. For some it's a brush up of what they've already learned, or a way to renew enthousiasm. For others (depending on which parrish they come from and how the confirmation class teachers work there) it can be almost an introduction.
it's the tenth year now that the Pastor and I will be giving the explenations on the cross and cruficix. Not the easiest subject perhaps for the children, but one that for us has carried the greatest enthousiasm. Each year it has felt as if I was indeed a tool in Gods hands. As if my words were more then my own words. It is the most powerful and humbling feeling in the world.
This year, two new people will be joining us, who have been taking over the confirmation classes and will participate in this 'krikdag' for the first time. Please pray for them and for me, that our words may not be our own, and may spark into the hearts of the children.
I'm a confirmation class teacher, or have been for 8 years. After I moved, I haven't yet picked it up again, but each year I go back to my old parrish for something that is called 'krikday' 'Krik' is the Dutch word for jack, I think. The thing you use to lift your car a bit when the tire is flat and you need to replace it. What it is is a meeting where the children who are readying themselves for confirmation from different parrishes come together. The numbers vary from about a hundred to about twohundred children. It's ment to push up faith, to be a little encourager in the last 'miles' before confirmation, before the Holy Spirit, hence the name.
Each parrish has a different theme that the teachers are responsible for, mostly it are symbols of the confirmation or the Faith like oil, water, fire, hands etc.
In groups of about 20 we get the children together to talk to them for half an hour before they move to the next theme. For some it's a brush up of what they've already learned, or a way to renew enthousiasm. For others (depending on which parrish they come from and how the confirmation class teachers work there) it can be almost an introduction.
it's the tenth year now that the Pastor and I will be giving the explenations on the cross and cruficix. Not the easiest subject perhaps for the children, but one that for us has carried the greatest enthousiasm. Each year it has felt as if I was indeed a tool in Gods hands. As if my words were more then my own words. It is the most powerful and humbling feeling in the world.
This year, two new people will be joining us, who have been taking over the confirmation classes and will participate in this 'krikdag' for the first time. Please pray for them and for me, that our words may not be our own, and may spark into the hearts of the children.
Tom T. Hall.
for you!
