The Oaks focuses on public speaking and they do this in a few ways. One is that when kids answer they must stand up and put their hands by their sides and give their answer in a complete sentence. The other is that they have a speech meet each year and as the years go on the kids are required to have a certain number of verses or lines. You can choose a poem or Bible verse to say.
We chose Ephesians 3:14-21 for Charlie to recite.
Here are the girls waiting for the start.
Charlie was seated in the middle of his class on the second half of the room.
the girls did an awesome job waiting during the hour long meet.
Charlie had been sitting for 30 minutes when it came to his turn. He jumped on a stage a bit early and wanted to jump into his speech, but the judges were still judging so his amazing teach Mrs. Holland gently told Charlie to wait a second. He ran back to his seat and I could see his sweet face turning red. I went up to him and just reassured him that it was not a big deal and that he was going to do great and to take a deep breath and go slow. He then started over and did awesome. I was BEYOND proud of him (and so were all of our friends and family I sent the video to). All I wanted him to be was proud of his work. He didn’t miss a word and was clear. He is definitely a competitive kid and wants to win and the first thing he said when I picked him up was that “I didn’t win the medal”. I love that he aspires to do great work – but I wanted to just squeeze and shake him and remind him how great he did. There is always next year! We love you Charlie and are so proud of the way you are proclaiming God’s word.
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