Rubber Gloves and CCD

Just a short entry this time to let you know about this week's CCD experience. The Director's of Religious Ed (DREs) at St. Tim's back home will love this. CCD here is done in the church, in the pews, no desks, no tables, just the Church environs. Pews become desks when they need to be. Today we have CCD for the elementary kids and Ginni is playing the guitar, singing HIS BANNER OVER ME IS LOVE, with all the hand motions for each verse. We finish the song and I start the lesson (The theme being, 'We Gather Together' for our 1st communion-focused program). About 2 minutes into the lesson a little boy leans forward and vomits. Kids jump up, screaming, yelling, running - and he vomits some more. Absolute bedlam.

I take the boy to the rest room, our only volunteer takes the kids to the rear of the church, and Ginni dons rubber gloves and gets a bucket. After I clean him up I return to find Ginni with a bucket full of 'stuff' and Mrs H leading the kids in a chorus of song at the rear of the Church.

Ginni takes the gloves off and leads the poor kid to the van to take him home while I resume the lesson. We get threw the lesson, Ginni returns, the kids head home and we prep for the High School kids. They show up, one of the girls bringing her 3 year-old brother with her since she had nobody to leave him with.

We sing, we start the lesson, and about 2 minutes into the lesson the 3 year-old needs the bathroom. Off he goes, never to be seen again. She goes to see what's up and then she never returns. Ginni goes to see what's up and she never returns - actually she does but it takes awhile. It seems he is sick and has the mother of all diarreah (how do you spell that), most of which was in the toilet, but not all - and just to make it interesting, he dropped his crayon in the toilet. So for the second time Ginni had to put on the rubber gloves.

I wonder, are rubber gloves standard issue for CCD teachers or just for DREs?