Ministry doesn’t always look like teaching elementary school classes and playing with kids at a local orphanage (although we’ve been doing all of those wonderful things). We’ve also been lucky enough to help out with some adult English classes at a school a stones throw away from our house. Yes, this seems pretty standard as far as ministry goes, which it has been. Up until last night we’ve been set up with a group of students, the teacher puts some questions on the board and conversation ensues. We’ve talked about everything from what we think about Haiti or Trump and even been blessed with lots of chances to share our stories and about our relationship with God!
We walked in yesterday afternoon expecting much of the same. We were quite wrong. Being instructed we would be reading stories and asking questions I think we were all still under the impression we’d be reading these stories to actual students. A half hour into our arrival there was still only one student there and the teacher began handing us shirts to wear that were about two sizes too small. It wasn’t until then that we realized the one student was actually the guy who would be filming us reading these stories, asking the questions and then reading through vocabulary…
With our blood circulation being cut off by the tightness of the shirts, we mentally prepared ourselves for our camera debuts. One hitch, when it came to the vocabulary the teacher wanted us to form sentences on the spot to help provide examples. This proved a bit tougher than expected. My turn was up and I read through the story and the questions without a hitch. My vocabulary came up next, which mind you I had not read ahead of time. The word husband comes up. My first instinct is to use it in the following sentence… “I do not have a husband”. With my team watching and now doing everything they could to hold back their laughs I had to recover from that sentence and finish up about four more vocabulary words before I could finally keel over in the utter shock that I had actually just said that out loud.
No fear, because this was quickly followed up with Quinn having the word “single” in her vocabulary list and promptly saying “I am single” for her sentence.
Thank you God for the opportunity to act a fool!
To all the English classes who will be blessed with these videos, you are very welcome for the laughs.
