Oh my stars....4.5 stars for.......

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Oh my stars…January’s movie night at the Rector First Baptist Church for the Children’s Church was January 26 @ 6.  We enjoyed pizza, chips and drinks!  Of course Joey Pruett is always quietly surprising me and he showed up with a birthday cake and gifts for me!! If you do not know Joey and Janice Pruett, you need to make a point too!!! They are awesome!!  The movie we watched was “Miracle Dogs II”.  I purchased this movie from Lifeway in Jonesboro and it was outstanding.  The movie has to be pretty interesting to hold the interest of 18 children ranging in age from 5 years old to sixth grade.
The movie starts out with STEVE URKEL, Jaleel White and his buddy “Borrowing a car”, what they didn’t know was that there were two MIRCALE DOGS in the back.  They drop the dogs in the woods and then things start going wrong for the two car “borrowers”.  Jaleel knows some of the things they are doing are not right but his buddy keeps pressuring him to make bad decisions.  This story alone is a great one to talk to your children about the harms of peer pressure and the consequences of making bad decisions. Also, this is a great place to talk about being a bully!  Ask them questions about how they felt about the bully.  Ask them if they ever talk people into doing things that they know are not right.
But that is just the beginning of this great show.  Zack, the young boy of Paula Wells, the new administer of the nursing home in Hope Springs, finds the two cocker spaniels the Jaleel and his friend left in the woods.  These dogs are special dogs that belong to a group called “Zootherapy”.  When Zack sneaks the dogs into the nursing room the residents start feeling well enough to play games, dance and laugh!  These are truly miracle dogs.  This is a great opening to talk to your children about how important laugher is to our lives and that God created us to watch out for and take care of each other, even if the other people are in the nursing home and you don’t know them.  When we are lonely, we tend to smile less, and ache more.  Our beautiful people who are in the nursing homes have lived full lives and have a wealth of knowledge and stories to tell.  Our children are like the “Miracle Dogs”, they bring sunshine in all of our lives and the lives of others.  My goal this year is to start working with the Rector Nursing Home and getting our children to comfortably interacting with the senior citizens.  Painting fingernails, playing checkers, reading books and other things that give each of them a chance to get to know the other is my goal this year.  I want the children to learn compassion, and that our seniors are a gold mine of information and I want the workers in the nursing home, and the seniors to know that our children today are awesome and just trying to find out where they belong and that they are important.
So I give “Miracle Dogs II” 4.5 stars.  I loved it!      








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