Learning to take it all in stride...

The grand total for church today: 2 in Sunday School, and the same 2 at youth group!
Even though I announce repeatedly that mission week permission forms were due today, even though I made phone calls on Tuesday, Friday, and today attempting to remind students to come...that's just how summer's are in this community, I've been told.
What was cool was the two who came. The game I chose was meant to be a fun object lesson about how we need Scripture to combat Satan's lies, but my instructions were confusing and without enough people the game fell flat completely. They were really good sports and enagaged in discussion dispite the lack of running around. I got an honest comment from a third-grade boy who tagged along with his older brother, "I'm bored to death." okay, thanks. I'll remember not to recycle that one. But the older two, though obviously bored, stuck with me. I forgot that the two wonderful women who make dinner for us were going to be gone this week, so we took an improvised trip to Sonic, which took up most of the remainder of our time and precluded any running-around activities. They're such good sports and I'm so glad I get to play a hand in teaching them.
We need to re-vamp our strategy. what we're doing works, but it's only scraping by.
A year ago in May this church had almost 30 students. Then they called a break for the whole summer and we never got them back. I know this church is capable of doing so much more, but something just isn't working right.