Personal Narrative: My Experience As A Christian

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I became a Christian in 2008 while serving in the United States Navy stationed overseas in Greece. I always wanted to teach kids in some way either elementary or middle school, but never knew what topics I wanted to teach. While in Greece I met a really wonderful family with six children and started to help the parents out anywhere I could. Within the year there I helped out teaching the Sunday school lessons for the children there. I had a very fun and amazing time helping those kids out and teaching them about God, Jesus and the Bible. I left Greece and I moved to San Diego where I joined a large church there called the Rock Church where I became an even bigger Christian serving in the congregation, but because I was on a ship and deployed I wasn’t able to help out with “the Rock Kids” children’s …show more content…
It was a feeling that I was happy to know and I wanted to learn more about the bible every week, just so I could help teach these kids about how amazing our God is and how much he loved us. This experience taught me to not get lost in the worldly views but to focus on the bible in the simplest ways possible. I learned so much more about the bible during my time I spent with my kids then I did the years before that. Being the Sunday teacher for roughly 20-50 kids every Sunday made me make sure that I was completely prepared and ready to teach them the lesson for that Sunday. Even though my lessons were already scripted by the church staff, I always wanted to make sure that my heart was ready and that I listened to what the spirit wanted me to say and not just wanted I wanted to say to get through the lessons. Children have some many questions and not little ones either but deep thought provoking ones, along with Prayer requests that no child should have to worry about so it meant even more that I would be ready to call upon the Holy Spirit to help guide me through it and not miss lead the children in any

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