Timeline Activity

      This past week in our class we worked on an activity that really allowed us to look back at our lives and put to paper major events that happened to us throughout our lifetime. We were asked to make two separate sides on the timeline. One would have the major events that happened in our life outside of church related things and spiritual events. The other would have those events that happened in our Christian walk. After we were done we got together with other members of our class and shared some of those experiences with each other. This was such a great activity. It reminded me of so many good things that have happened in my life and how far in my journey with Christ that I have come.

     Some of the items that I recalled on my "secular" timeline included being able to skip a grade before starting school, spending time at an after school program for many years, learning guitar, playing baseball for 12 years, getting into an exam high school, being denied from the college I wanted to go to, becoming an assistant bank manager, my brother dying, moving to Pennsylvania after living in Boston my whole life and getting married this past year. All of these were highlights that I could vividly remember throughout my 28 years of life and have certainly helped shape a part of who I am.

     Then when I was making my spiritual side of the timeline I included my mom accepting Christ when I was about 3 years old, going to Sunday school throughout my lifetime, being baptized in the Holy Spirit at 11 years old then being baptized in water, preaching my first sermon at 12, leading worship, singing, traveling to Haiti on a missions trip, playing on a traveling worship team, attending bible college, and being a youth worker since I was 21.

     All of these things combined have been so important in my growth as a Christian and a person. Then being able to hear the journeys that my classmates have gone through to get where they are. This activity really was a blessing to be able to look at bad and good times and see how God has carried all of us through all of those situations. I am definitely going to recommend this activity to other groups and use it myself in the future.