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Before working with the preteens I was super shy and very quiet and also socially akward. I am also very much an introvert. Through working with the preteens I feel that I have learned so much, grown up quite a bit, and at the same time had a ton of fun.
The preteens are the fifth and sixth graders at my church on Wednesdays they have different groups they break out in such as drama, tech team, recreation, missions, worship, and a few others. The team I have had the opportunity to work with is the creative ministries team. The creative ministries team is literally almost anything you can do to show Jesus to other people through a performance except for using words.
How I ended up working with the preteens is really almost a coming of age story in and of itself. On Wednesday nights I go to church. For students my age you would normally go upstairs and go to what we call Verge which is like a worship time for seventh through twelfth grade. At the time I did not like to go to Verge and I was not getting anything out of that time. So I would hang out downstairs where the children's and preteen ministries are located. One night I was standing around by the front desk not really doing
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This year Teri is not doing creative ministries and I told the person in charge that i would like to keep working with the preteens as long as I was not doing it solo. So I am working with someone else this year.
I have learned so much through the opportunity I have been given to work with the preteens. I have become a lot less shy and less socially awkward, even though i would still say that I am a little bit, and I have learned that even though I am introverted I can still work with other people that are not introverts and that I can be loud if I need to be. One of the biggest things that I have learned through this experience is that quiet and leader is not a

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