Four Box

Our church does a cool thing most weeks where the staff prepares a 'four box' containing activities, DVDs, CDs, ideas, and/or scriptures for us to share with our families or small groups sometime during the week. This last week we did not have service between the holidays, so the four box doubled as 'church in a box' to be completed on Sunday. We opted to wake up and use the four box as our church service. Lehr had the idea to pull out the blanket and a few quiet toys and have Eli and Maddux do blanket time during the sermon portion of the four box. Maddux was difficult at best; she couldn't understand why we wouldn't play with her for the first five minutes or so (the whole thing was about 17 minutes). Eli started out playing and whatnot, but when he saw us pull out a Bible and follow along with the pastor, he asked for his Bible. And he flipped the rest of the time. It was really cool...he even told me a story when we were done. Something about a woman making something and then a storm and Jesus. (He was using a picture Bible.)