FBC 6th graders hear pumpkin lesson

By Sam Waller

First Baptist Church sixth graders received a pumpkin-related message and learned to carve pumpkins during the group’s meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 26.

Sixth grade adult leader Courtney Milligan said about 18 children participated as group leader Lori Schooler spoke on how being a Christian is like being a pumpkin.

“I want to thank Lori for putting this together,” Milligan said. “She bought the pumpkins and provided carving kits.”

Chad Overton also serves as an adult leader for the group.

“As we started carving, Lori read through the lesson about how God picks you from the patch,” Milligan said. “Then we just let them carve.”

The text of Schooler’s lesson compared God shaping Christians much the same way the sixth graders shaped their pumpkins:

According to the lesson read by Schooler, God picks you from the patch, brings you in, and washes all the dirt off you. He cuts off the top and scoops out all the yucky stuff.

“He removes seeds of doubt, hate, greed, etc.,” said Schooler, “and then He carves you a new smiling face and puts His light inside of you to shine for all the world to see.”