A Fire Truck goes to Church

After an awful and stressful day at work, it was very nice to get to church and visit with my friends and catch up on the past week's news, etc. The babies in the nursery on Wednesday nights keep us hopping, they are very busy. Most of them are in my Sunday School class. Speaking of Sunday...let me tell you what happened this past Sunday morning....

Approx. 10 minutes before the 11 am church service, the fire alarm went off. Well there was one other adult in my class with me and 9 little ones at the time. I am not sure how, but all of a sudden there were people coming to assist with getting the little ones out of the building. There was no way toddlers could walk behind someone leading them on a regular day, let alone a time when a very loud alarm is blaring. Some of them didn't have shoes, some were screaming and the other ones were wide eyed and scared.

All we could think about was getting them out of the building. We all gathered outside next to the playground with all the other kids (up to 3 yrs old) and I made a comment "well, at least it is not raining", just then, it started pouring rain (it really did!), it was amazing. Everyone grabbed the kids again and ran to the choir suite that is in the main church building with the sanctuary. No one in the sanctuary knew anything about the fire alarm. The building really could have been on fire and no one in the church service would know a thing.

It ended up being a false alarm, one of the teens "leaned up against the alarm" and it started. Of course we had to wait for the fire truck to come and reset the alarm--still blaring loudly. The kids did get to see the fire truck, that was fun I guess. By the time we got back in the building again, there were other kids arriving. It was so chaotic that I ended up staying in my classroom for the 2nd service--there were now 11 toddlers in my class. The volunteers in the first service stayed on thru the 2nd service in the infant room, so they were covered.

The fire station is very close to us, about a minute away. They have been at our church 2 times in the past months. They are probably going to get tired of false alarms. The last time about a month or so ago one of the younger kids pulled the alarm, that time it was on a Wednesday night.