Help!

While listening to my professor about adult learning and teaching, I reflected about my experience as teacher.

It has been just 3 weeks that we started our Young Professional Bible study.  Because I am one of those who initiated it, I volunteered to become the facilitator for the first few weeks. At first, it was quite exciting. We really want to organize young adults. We believe that they have the potential to lead our church in the future.

But lately, I realized that it is so hard to teach young adults. I could say now that it’s easier to teach young people/youth.

In those three weeks, here are things I heard from some of them:

1.       “Ate, kaya mo na yan.” I heard this from one of them who wants me to discuss the whole lesson to them rather than asking them questions. She is in hurry to go home.

2.       “Nyek ate ang corni naman, hindi na kami bata”. They didn’t really take the role play seriously. I just wanted to be somehow creative, asking them what they remember about the story of Zacchaeus, but I as I saw it, they were not interested.

3.       “Naku si ate sha ang leader, baka mahaba na naman yan.” Hayssss… Maybe for me 1 hour is not that long, but for them I guess it is. Almost all of them are from work. I know they are tired. But we didn’t really have other nigh/time to do the Bible study.

Wah!!! I do not want to get weary. I really like what I’m doing but I know I have to do it right. Though I know that they are somehow joking (we are really close to each other), I also feel that they have a point.

I do hope that I’m gonna learn more. I believe I really need some help on this. *sigh*