CM report for Dec.29th

A compliment to the aides, I believe most came back early and that was very refreshing.

Early Preschool Class:  Shawn came to us right when he came to church and said he never got anyone to help teach with him.  I assured him we would find someone.  He said his son had helped him previously but that he wasn't there sunday morning.  Galen spoke more with Shawn later and I must say, personally this man looked like he was near to tears and we felt, he was doing us a favor even by coming to church with out his wife who is at home dealing with some serious stuff.  Shawn was so torn as he felt like he should be home with his wife and how he REALLY wasn't comfortable at all asking any women (young adult girl, older woman to teach with him) Galen totally got that.  I guess we should have been more sensitive to that fact. We placed Anthony R. in to help him along with Gabrielle Landis.  I realize like Jane shared later, she was not comfortable leaving mercy in there with two men teaching and so she stayed, but we really didn't know what to do and shawn just really broke our hearts. When you hear the hard realities of someone's personal life, you kind of let some rules slide as it can all seem so trivial in the light of someone's personal pain. Shawn said he is done teaching so I just want to confirm that he is taken off the teaching list.

Jane shared that we really need to look at the snack situation for the early preschool class and probably church wide at some point.  We have children with milk allergies who cannot have sourdough pretzels which is what has been provided currently in the class. you have some children bringing in their own snack which contains items like peanuts when you have students in the class highly allergic to peanuts.  Something I guess we need to have conversation about at our next meeting.  '

Happy New Year
Teresa