Sweeties Service

Last Sunday, we attended the morning chapel service held at Sparrow. It was an informal children's service that was mostly pleasant chaos. The first half hour the kids filed in and out, trading seats, boys on the right and girls on the left. The youngest ones all sat on the girls' side, where they were bullied less and cuddled more. Later, a young woman named Esmeralda came to teach some new songs. They've been having an ongoing battle of the sexes, with the boys in the lead last week. The electricity was out, however, so they could not use the CD player for music. Instead, they had a biblical trivia quiz, with the girls winning handily, 3-0. One of each team's three balloons would get popped for each right answer. The winning team got two sweeties, and the losing team one. But Esmeralda made the fatal mistake of handing the candy out mid-service, so that everyone immediately lost interest in learning or participating in anything else. Eventually everyone got yelled at and the singing contests were canceled indefinitely. There were some groans but soon everyone contentedly filed out to play in the sunshine. Anyway, posted here are an assortment of clips from the morning. Sorry, my computer and I aren't ready for proper editing or scene transitions yet.... The first one is about 6 minutes and the others are 1-2 minutes each.