Today we shared about Jesus at 5 different secondary schools (jr. high & sr. high).  At the last school my dad and I got out of our van and were welcomed by a bunch of kids so I got out my soccer ball and threw it up in the air.  The kids began screaming with excitement and began kicking the ball around.  There were probably 150 kids.  At one point they all jumped on the ball to try to get it and one kid finally got it and then the teacher came and disciplined them for not staying at school – the kids disappeared and so did my soccer ball... After that we went back outside and there were a couple of kids sitting outside the fence and they said the boy had taken the ball back to his house.  I felt kind of bad because it shouldn’t have just gone to one kid.

Then we went to teach at the secondary girls school all the kids from the primary school were hanging on the fence being kind of loud, trying to hear what we’re talking with the older girls about.  So I went with Mr. Patrick, Hayley and Michael to entertain the kids.  Just as we got them all together, the teacher rang the gathering bell and so he took all the kids back to the school, from the soccer field, and he invited us to come too.

And so we sang two songs they liked and then Mr. Patrick said a little bit about John 3:16 and about obeying your parents. Then Mr. Godfrey and Natalie came and Godfrey shared about Jesus too.

Then they told us that someone had just given them a soccer ball and they said two weeks earlier they had bought a ball for the boys and needed a ball for the girls but couldn’t afford one – and the kids had all been praying for one and were really happy that God answered that request.

Then we said that I was the one who had given them the ball a little bit ago and they all wanted me to stand up and talk so I told them my sister’s names, how old I am and what grade I am in (“Primary 6” here) and then sat back down.  Then they all wanted to shake my hands and then went outside and sang a couple of songs.  I thought that was really cool that God answered their prayer through me and that we had the opportunity to share the gospel with them while playing with them – especially since it wasn’t even planned that we would stop at their school.