Girls night in...

Last night we held bible study again for the oldest kids. So at 6pm we started getting the house ready, chairs set up, Renae was baking cookies and Ernesto was getting ready and preparing when all of a sudden... 7 o'clock came and no kids. Hmmm.... looks like 3 weeks in a row now that they just haven't come for one reason or another. Come to find out that all the kid decided to go to a local carnival instead of come to bible study. So as we sat in our living room a bit discouraged there was a knock at the door. 3 teenage girls. Lulu, 19 Miriam, 19 and Angela 16. They were the 3 who decided to stay back for bible study rather than go to the carnival. We were very humbled to see that these girls were more interested in learning the bible than going out with their friends. At first, we didn't think they were actually coming for bible study. We assumed they came for money or something to go the carnival but sure enough they sat down, bibles in hand and said "come on, let's start!" "Ok!!!"
For the last 3 weeks we've been trying to start a series that we're calling "Los Juanes" which is a study of 1st, 2nd and 3rd John. Last night we read through the "Juanes" and discussed the major themes and things that popped out to them. The purpose of our "Juanes" study with the older teens is to...
1. Teach them how to study the bible, rather than just reading it. Something that seems a bit foreign where we are here in Mexico.
2. Get them in a habit of being in the word daily through the "homework" assigned to them. And not just occasionally bringing their bible to church on Sunday.
3. Performing a "self-check" of where you are in your personal walk with the Lord and using the convicting words of 1st, 2nd and 3rd John to do so.

Afterward bible study we sat back, enjoyed some peanut butter chocolate chip cookies, coffee and tea and laughed our heads off! It was a very very very... fun night.