Throw and Tell Balls

In our classrooms, we use "Throw & Tell" balls from Group as opening activities. You can find out more about them here: https://www.group.com/search.do?query=ball

A few weeks back, one of the men from church who is a Sergeant in the army brought out a Humvee and Personnel Carrier from the local army training area. He told us about all kinds of amazing military advances that parallel these lessons. I don't know how you'd get authorization to do it each week, but that would have made an EXCELLENT workshop!

The cool part was, though, that as we sat in the back of the big giant truck driving around the church lot, I asked the kids, "How do these things compare to the armor of God?" Just about everyone had a different answer. "The bullet-proof glass is like the breastplate or the shield - it stops the bullets!" The helmets are equipped with sensors that show up on our military's night-vision equipment. One of the adults noted that the people wearing them are "marked" like we are when we have salvation. And on and on it went. It was cool to see they had "got it."

~Staci (Jenks Church)