This week, the Lord put it on my heart to make a map of Africa which was very colorful and the size of the map was big enough so that the children could put both of their hands and their feet on four countries (one country for left hand, right hand, left foot, right foot) and then we proclaimed scriptures for those four countries. When I made up the map, I tried to make sure that none of the countries whose borders were touching each other had the same color so the map was very colorful with green, yellow, blue, red, and purple. And the size of the map was as big as a huge table cloth. We laid the map on the floor and first we proclaimed the scripture in English and then in Cantonese. As I spoke phrases in the English, they would repeat after me and then as my interpretor spoke in Cantonese, they repeated after her. Each student got about three turns to place their hands and their feet all over this map. For example, I would say to the first participant, “Put your right foot on South Africa; put your left foot on Sudan; put your right hand on Togo; put right left hand on Seychelles. And the child would be all over the map, twisting their body everywhere to try to reach all of the countries. Then as this child held this pose, we all proclaimed various scriptures. For example, all of the “green” countries, we proclaimed the “green” scripture. For all of the “blue” countries, we proclaimed the “blue” scriptures, etc.
Then we had set up two tables before the class and this week, I went to an aquarium store on the street in WanChai on Hong Kong Island and purchased smooth rocks that were used to put in big fish tanks. They were HEAVY so I had to take a suitcase with wheels on it to purchase the rocks. We washed all the rocks and then placed them on tables with a plastic table cloth and newspapers spread all over the floor and we had prepared scriptures or scripture words ahead of time in both English and Cantonese and each person was given a large paintbrush and a small paint brush and they were instructed to paint the rock however they wanted to and then put a word on the rock like “faith” or “trust God”. I read the scripture out of Deuteronomy 27 which says, “…the Israelites set up a stone altar and plastered the rocks with plaster and wrote the law on the rocks so they could remember all of the words of the Law that Moses told them.” So that is what we were doing today. We were writing words to remember scripture. Instead of wearing our colored ephods during the class today, when they came into the class, they were dressed with a plastic garbage bag with a fresh hole cut into it so that the bag could be slipped over their head and then we cut holes for their arms to go through. So they had “plastic ephods” to do the work of the Lord today so they didn’t get paint all over their clothes. Then they used the “ephods” to carry home their colorful rocks when they were completed at the end of the class.
One student got the idea to glue glitter to the top of his toy truck. So he slipped the truck out of his backpack and put glitter on his “Glory Truck” - “Weng-you-for-tcheay”!!
