Primary Children's Program

In our church, once a year the children in Primary (ages 3-11)

present the program for our worship service.

I have been called as the leader (Primary president) for these

children in our congregation, and today was our program.

Did I mention that the children are Korean?

Sara, the oldest girl is 8 years old and she speaks quite a bit of English, 

along with Chinese (as she attends school here) and her native language of Korean.

Her younger sister is 6 years old, Suzy is the English name she has chosen.

But, no English.  

Seoung Jae, the 7-year-old boy, also speaks no English.

So they gave their talks in Korean.

We recited scriptures in both English and Korean.

They sang their songs well (in English--though they might not understand

what they were singing). 

Everything went really well, except...

With only 3 children participating (the youngest one in the picture

is in nursery--he's two), we thought it would be good

to sing along to prerecorded songs--you know, to bolster confidence

and to be loud enough.  I had everything

ready, until during the opening song, the electrical circuit

went out because of the heater that was also plugged in.

The building has been freezing cold the past couple of weeks

and the room has been heated with space heaters.

So!  No prerecorded music!

Okay. On to plan B.  Guess I'll play the piano, instead of sing with the children.

It still went well.  It wouldn't be the children's program without

something unusual happening.  The microphone was also on that circuit, so, no mike!
That had its good point--at least the kids couldn't blow into it
like they always seem to want to do.  Or stand too close and be really loud.
Our congregation is small enough (about 45 people) that everyone
was still able to hear.
 I'm just glad the children had a successful

experience and we all learned a little.