As Time Goes By

As I am sure is the case in many churches around the nation, school years are ending and we as a children's ministry are approaching promotion Sunday. Our kids are so excited to have finished another grade in school and can't wait to move on to the next Sunday School class, and for our 6th graders, to move up to the jr.high classes. As a leader this is a bittersweet time for me because I am excited to see these kids grow both physically and spiritually, but I am sad that some of them are moving beyond my ministry and up to the youth group.

I began serving within the children's ministry at my church as an eighth grader. So I personally have been through alot of promotion Sundays. But it wasn't until I was in college, and serving along side some of the "kids" that I had taught, that I began to realize that time passes way too quickly.

When most people hear that I am over a ministry that spans 12 years in a child's life I normally get comments like "wow thats a long time!". And to tell you the truth, yes in numeric years, it does seem like a long time. But seeing a child move from the nursery to a toddler class, then to the preschool worship, and then progress upstairs with the early elementary, then to the older elementary, then preteen class, and finally graduate to the youth group, well lets just say there have been alot of happy and proud tears shed over that child. And though it may seem like a long time from an outsiders perspective, from the position I am in, it flies by entirely too fast.

Though I reminisce the times when "my kids" were younger and am sad they are not that way anymore, I cannot help but be proud of who they are becoming. It is so awesome to see the teen, and young adults that God is shaping each of them in to, and I feel extremely blessed that God let me have a small role in helping them along that journey.  And lets be honest, they will always be "my kids" no matter how old they get!

Continually Growing at The Grove!
Miss Megan