hungry

I'm not sure if there's a collective name for a whole crowd of Brownies - other, I suppose, than 'Brownies'!

(I'm talking girls here, rather than cakes, I should make clear)

Anyway, whatever such a crowd of Brownies is called, I found myself surrounded by them when I looked in to see them this evening. They were champing at the bit, desperate to know when the Scripture Union group was going to be starting again along at the school. Was it going to happen? Would I be leading the group again? When was it going to start? Where would it be?

When I replied that I'd been on the phone today with the school about this, they almost interrupted to let me know that the reason the school had been in touch was because they'd gone themselves to the Head and had been pestering him about it too.

They're keen!

And I'm keen, as well, to get the thing going again and build on the sort of momentum we had last year.

There's no time like the present for our getting to know the Lord. And no better time than this, in the first flush of youth, for these children to learn about Jesus and to be giving their lives to him. A definite decision to live for the Lord all their days will shape the whole of their living.

I'm keen to help them reach such a point where a genuine, meaningful committing themselves to the Lord is being made. And therefore keen to get the group re-started.

My problem has been that the teacher I worked with last year in leading the group is not to be doing it this year. And I can't really do it alone - disclosure regulations are such that although I'm disclosed, I've not been disclosed as a member of staff at the school, so I can't be alone with the children.

Which has meant my finding someone else to be there on a Thursday over lunch. Which has meant the need for some further disclosure as well, this person being 'disclosed' by Scripture Union. It all takes time!

I'm meeting with Gill (our 'Es-team' worker from SU) this week, and after that we should be ready to go. I'm hoping so, at any rate.

Opportunity knocks all right. My problem has been that bureaucracy's put so many locks on the door, it takes a while to unlock it!

The door of these young girls' hearts have no such bureaucratic locks. They're opened wide to the Lord and eager to learn.

Feeding time is about to begin again!