First Communion

Alanna had her first communion today.  In our church, the school-age children just sit with their parents through the whole service on communion Sundays and partake in the bread and juice.  Since Alanna started Kindergarten, for whatever reason it's never seemed to work out that she was at church on communion Sunday until today.

She asked several times in whispers if it was time to eat the bread yet and we told her repeatedly to "shhh" and that it would be soon.  In whispers I explained that the bread and juice represented Jesus' Last Supper with his Disciples and that we ate the bread and juice to remind ourselves that Jesus gave up his body and blood/life for us.  

When the time came, she smooshed her little piece of bread in her hands trying to wait patiently for the prayer to be said so she could eat it, then drank her little juice in three loud sips.

After church, we saw Pastor Richard and Alanna exclaimed, "That was a YUMMY snack!!!"