SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER GETS THE POINT ACROSS…

Sis. Verlene Brown is the teacher for the young adult Sunday school class, a job she gets completely immersed in.  Sis. Brown is always seeking and asking the Lord for innovative ideas to get the point over to her class.

 During the month of March, in preparing two lessons in particular, we are sure all of her class members got the point!  March 22nd’s lesson title was “A New Breath,” a lesson which centered around Ezekiel’s dream or vision of the valley of dry bones (Ezek. 37:1-14).  Sis. Brown adorned her class with skeletons, and assorted bones scattered around the room.  She is a very lively teacher and always compelling her class members to think, and apply the lesson to their daily lives.

 On the following Sunday, March 29th, the lesson topic was “A New Source of Life,”  Ezekiel’s vision of being in a house with water coming from the threshold, later to be understood as a river, and the many things it yielded along the way. (Ezek. 47:1-12).  Sis. Brown again had an illustration prepared for her class.  She brought in a ladder and labeled the various rungs in the ladder, beginning at the bottom, and asking her class where are you in Christ or in the Word?  Are you at the bottom (ankle deep), next level being knee deep, or you waist deep, or are you totally immersed? Are we bearing any fruit along the way? 

Last year in a lesson about the people passing a stranger along the way because of the way he was dressed, Sis. Brown put her skills to the test.  Before anyone arrived at church, she adorned herself as a poor woman begging for a quarter and stationed herself near the entry driveway to the church’s parking lot.  Her identity was completely covered for over 98% of the members as they arrived to church.  A few stopped to help or to inquire if they could assist her, some went to the pastor and asked if they should go back and help her.  One member recognized her and said “I know who you are, but I won’t blow your cover.”

 Sis. Brown spares no length, height or depth that she will go to in order for her students to get the point, and remember the lesson focus.  Our hats off to you, Sis. Brown, and keep on teaching, and making the point…