{"id":41,"date":"2010-03-24T19:34:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T00:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/?p=41"},"modified":"2010-03-24T19:34:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T00:34:41","slug":"goldfish-balloons-and-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/2010\/03\/24\/goldfish-balloons-and-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldfish, balloons, and Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I need more goldfish!&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;I need to go potty!&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;Where&#8217;s <em>my<\/em> balloon?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jevon and I glanced at each other over the 3 foot high clamor.\u00a0 &#8220;Can you take her potty?&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;Sure.\u00a0 Can you get him goldfish?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A couple times a month we have the privilege of teaching the 2 and 3 year olds at our church here in Camdenton.\u00a0 Actually we do more playing and more trips to the bathroom than we do teaching.\u00a0 But if for five minutes we can round them up into a little circle, while Jevon tells (or dramatizes) a story about Jesus, we are more than happy to play and take trips to the restroom for the rest of the hour.\u00a0 Even better, we can weave thoughts and themes about Jesus into our play.\u00a0 &#8220;Jesus loves you&#8221;&#8230;\u00a0 &#8220;Jesus can do anything, because Jesus is God&#8221;&#8230;.&#8221;You can tell other people that Jesus loves them, too&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>We enjoy our Sunday mornings with these little guys.\u00a0 They are so fun and so precious to God. \u00a0 And we are thankful that a local church has welcomed us onto their team and allowed us to serve them, even though we&#8217;re only going to be here in Missouri for two short years.<\/p>\n<p>On another note; we asked you to pray for Cali&#8217;s allergies a couple of weeks ago.\u00a0 Well, she has not had any trouble at all since.\u00a0 In fact, it may have been a cold, not allergies, but irregardless, God took care of whatever it was.\u00a0 Yay!\u00a0 Thank you, God!<\/p>\n<p>And thank you for praying.\u00a0 We miss you and look forward to reconnecting when summer comes.<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Danica for the Rich family<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I need more goldfish!&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;I need to go potty!&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;Where&#8217;s my balloon?&#8221; Jevon and I glanced at each other over the 3 foot high clamor.\u00a0 &#8220;Can you take her potty?&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;Sure.\u00a0 Can you get him goldfish?&#8221; A couple times a month we have the privilege of teaching the 2 and 3 year olds at our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":552,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}