 Good morning once again. Welcome to BC315, the course on life skills. So today we are going to look at the chapter on creativity and being innovator and you know, the critical thinking. I'm not too sure, we will touch upon the critical thinking, but in today's class we will look into creativity and being innovator. So even before we could begin with our session. Let's break. So this is something that I would like to take a scripture passage on even before we could request or to please turn to Exodus chapter 31. Exodus chapter 31. Okay, verse 1, I will read it for all of us. It says that the Lord spoke to Moses saying repeat the scripture Exodus 31 verse 1 to 11. It says, Then the Lord spoke to Moses saying, See, I have called by name this area son of your son of food, the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, understanding, knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship to design artistic works, to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in cutting jewels for setting, carving wood, and to work in all manner of workmanship. And I indeed, I have appointed with him a holy and the son of Ahesemak of the tribe of Dan, and I have put wisdom in the hearts of all the gifted artisans that they may make all that I commanded you. The tabernacle of meeting, the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seat that is on it, and all the furniture of the tabernacle, the table and its utensils, the pure gold lampstand with all its utensils, the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the labour and its base, the garments of ministry, the holy garments for the priest and the garments of the sons to minister as priests, and the anointing oil and sweet incense for the holy place. According to all that I have commanded you, they shall do. So, here is a picture of the sculpture. What is your thought about the creativity? We see that God, the source of creativity, imparting this creativity to people. I think we all know that our God is a God who is not partial. A God imparts creativity to each of us. So, there is no reason for each of us to say that we lack in creativity or we are not created because the source of creativity is God and we have this creative God in us. So, the God who is dwelling in us will make each of us creative. So, what we need to do? All we have to do is tap into that resource. We need to tap into that resource to get the access of creativity. So, let's pray and tap into God as we are here. As we are here. Lord, we surrender ourselves into your hands. Father God, we come with ourselves, each of us in that class, into your hand and also the students will be logging in later through. We learn into your hand. Lord, we pray that as we go through the session of creativity, in no way do. Lord, we pray that you created each of us in your image, in your likeness. Lord, we pray that you are God's creative Lord. You are the source of all creativity, Father. Lord, in your omniscient, in your all creativity, Lord, you created the earth, you created the planets, you created the plants and all the living creatures of this earth. Father, your word says that you created everything and you said it is good. Lord, you also created man in your own likeness, in your own image of Father. You imparted your breath into him so that we may live, we may think, we may reason, we may analyze. Lord, I pray and I thank you that you have imparted your creativity into each of us, that there is no likeness of Father. Father, as we look up to you, the source of all creativity, Lord, we pray that you will activate the creativeness that you have imparted to each of us, Lord, with your wisdom, with your knowledge and understanding. Father, we pray that each of us will be created in the whole area in our own skill that you have given us. Father, we pray that, Lord, every area that we are serving you and we pray that we will be created, will be innovative expansion of your kingdom for the expansion for all your glory and honor of Father, just the way that you bless the best of you. The same way, Lord, you have blessed each of us, Lord. You have blessed us, you have increased us in your wisdom, knowledge and understanding of Father. Thank you, Lord. Thank you for doing greater work in and through us, Lord. You desire it, Father. You desire to work and move in and through us, Lord. Father, we thank you. We thank you that the greater God, greater God, the greater God is dwelling in each of us, Father, to make us more like you. Father, we pray that each of us, Lord, you will help us to humble ourselves and depend on you, depend on your wisdom, depend on your knowledge, on your understanding of Father, that we may not lean on our understanding, Lord, or on our ability of Father. Lord, we also will not look down upon ourselves, Lord, but then, Lord, we will depend on you, who is the author and creator of God. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Lord. Thank you for moving in and through us. Thank you that you're leading us, you're guiding us and you're strengthening us, Lord. Thank you, Father. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you. So, we know that God is a creative God, isn't he? It's so amazing to read about him that, you know, he can impart his wisdom, his understanding, his knowledge by, you know, even designing the tabernacle and when we read through this Exodus chapter 31 verse 1 to 11, God is so particular about each and everything and here there is no technology where the people can research or be innovative, but God imparts his wisdom into them. He gives them the understanding. He gives them the knowledge out of which they design everything perfectly in the way God wanted him to be. So, you and I today, having so much of resources and tools around us and our access, how much more creative you and I could be. I'm not talking about depending on our own strength and ability, definitely not, but then when we depend on God, on his ability, on his wisdom and the resources of us been made available to you and me, how much more creative each of us will be in the area of ministry of the workplace and God is assigned each of us to be. So, there is no reason for us not to be creative. There is no reason for us not to be innovative, not down upon us. There's no reason. It's God's words that He has created us and He has created us to be like Him. Okay, with that, let's look into our subject. So, there's no problem in our creativity because creativity is something that is within us. We all are creative and we need to believe that we are creative. We are innovative. The minute you believe, you see we flow with creativity. There's something very nice gift that God has given us is the imagination. Imagination is free, of course, isn't it? We can think, we can imagine. All of us, all of us have this power of imagination that God has given us. For example, if I say, you know, a big mountain under an ocean. Now, all of us have this creativity of imagination. Now, all of us can imagine a big ocean and there's a majestic mountain, isn't it? Though we would not have visited such place, but definitely we all can imagine. So, as the words have been spoken, creativity started in our mind. Same way, every idea, every task that is assigned to us, we are creative and we need to believe and that believe that God has gifted us with creativity. We are creative, we are innovative. So, creativity and innovation is given as something that is balanced between both. And how do we fuel creativity within us? By allowing us to flow in it. By allowing us to be creative. So, let's look at, let me share the slide first, but by the simple slide with certain examples that we could exercise and know that and believe that we are creative. We are your creative, critical thinking and today's task, we will only be covering on creativity. So, okay, the slide is not changing. Let me see. Is it taking now? Yeah. So, what is creativity? Creativity is the ability to make something new using our imagination or the original ideas. It can be a picture, a book, a song, a new idea. So, this is creativity, where we each of us have this ability to make something new. How? By using the imagination. So, we all can imagine any word that has been released. The minute we say a picture, a book, or a song, or a new idea, we all can imagine what it is. So, now, when we say creative thinking, yes. As we all read the definition, it is the ability to think differently and also we see a problem or a challenge from a new angle or a new perspective. Why? In order that we solve it. So, creativity allows us to find a new solution, a new answer, a new way of solving that problem. So, an effective way of solving a problem. Sometimes we may have tried everything and it's not working. So, we look a little different. So, we think differently. We try to solve that problem in a creative way. So, how? We may think, is there a different way that we could solve the problem for a new solution or to see if the problem meets a new solution and we think in a creative manner. So, we want to just look at a few pictures here that I would like to show and see the different aspects of that picture. Okay. Just give me a minute while I shade those pictures and see what is your creative thinking and what does that mean? Each of us have different sides to look into a picture. So, what is that we see in this picture? All of us can see, right? What is that we can see in this picture? You're going to unmute an answer. What is that we see in this picture? Chat us on. Let me see if somebody is applying for the chat. Mangi, sorry I didn't hear you. So, see a human's face. You see a human's face? Yeah, you're right. Anyone else? Oh, everyone sees a face. Sit down, be shake, see the face. If you see the face, come. Oh, come, go to the forehead. She can see a face and a word called liar. Okay. So, come, how did you see that even Avni have noticed it? So, how did you notice that? Let me quickly change so that all of this can see what come and Avni can see. See, this is a little tilted one. Still, you can see the face and you can see the word. Yeah, you can see the word clearly. Got it? So, now, because we know the word, okay, now we know the word. Now, we are all able to see the word clearly, isn't it? At the same time, are we able to see the face even in this little picture? We are able to see the word because we have seen the perspective of both sides. So, we have different sides. We need to be creative to see the problem in different ways. So, that we can come up with a solution. The solution don't have to be in a whole day model. We can also be innovative. We can be creative in what way we can do so. It's not about the things around us that we can be creative in a way, but just by, you know, handling the problem. Like last class, we studied about conflicts, what can, the various way of conflicts that we may face can handle how, what are the different ways that we can handle conflicts we looked up. So, this class, we're looking at creativity. The minute we say creative, we talk about creativity, we think about, oh, we imagine a man, a sculpture, okay, a man sculpting a rock or a stone into an image. And we think that's the creativity, isn't it? A simple stone is sculpted, is then chiseled, perform a beautiful image or a statue. We admire the sculpture, we admire the work of that person, isn't it? So, we think that's the creativity. Then, creativity is just not in creating things. It's also in the way we handle ourselves, the way we handle others, the way we address the problem. That's the creativity. That means a sculptor, this kid can be developed. It's not about science. Just that we need to keep doing, we need to keep doing what we're doing until and unless we analyze, we release and out, we come up with a solution and know that, you know, God has given us this creativity, God has given us this skill that we can handle. So, how do we analyze that? How do we realize that we have this creative skill within us? Nothing but in the process. We need to keep continuously doing what we are doing. The minute we try doing what we're doing in different ways, we realize that we are creative. One of the ways is we should not keep doing the things monotonously. You know, our mind gets so used to it that you don't have to think, for example, if you're driving from your home to college, home to workplace, home to your minister, church in the same route. You're taking the same route, day by day, week, weeks past, months past, year past. You're taking the same route. Now, I'm sure most of you all will agree with me. As you're taking the same route, your mind is thinking of n number of things. Many things at the same time. You don't have to pay attention. We need to take left, right. You just reach your destination. You just reach your destination. And in the way, you have thought or discussed in your mind, you know, you have so many things in the process of reaching your destination. Have you come across, you were not cautious, I need to take left, I need to take right. You know, your mind just knows you have just passed through, reach the route your destination. Have anyone come across this, that you don't have to take left, you have to take right, you have to take, but you know, you reach your destination. At the same time, you have thought many things, many things related to your work, personal life, ministry can be anything. Your mind was so busy thinking of all these things and you reached your destination. Anyone? Have you come, have you come across the situation, have you personally faced this? No one. So, you don't drive? Ma'am, can you repeat the question, sorry? Okay, see you. If you're driving, if you're driving from point A to point B, week after week, first time when you drive, you're very conscious about the path that you take, the route that you take, which left you need to take, which right you need to take to reach your destination. But if you're going through the same route, day after day or week after week, month, month after month, then you don't have to think, are you taking the route correctly? Because now, this route has become very familiar to your mind. The route has become very familiar to your mind. So, you go inside your mind, okay? But now, because the route has become familiar to our mind, now our mind starts, you know, starts to think various things. It can be about a personal life, ministry, workplace, kids, many things, but you're able to take the route correctly and reach your destination without having very much attention to the route that you understand that you get made right. Ma'am? Yes, yes. I don't drive, but I can share an experience. Yes, please. I have learned the skill of, I like knitting. So, even if I'm knitting a pattern and suddenly there is low power, I can keep on knitting even without seeing, because my mind knows the pattern, how to do it. So, I can share that with you. Yes, thanks. Thanks, Rukha, for sharing it. Yes, that's another example. Anyone else have an experience? Yes, brother Prasad, please. Yes, part of it. Can you hear me? Yes. So, for me, I think, I mean, I drive in Bangalore and, you know, I used to, when I look elsewhere, and I look abroad, I have, you know, the roads and everything else on the traffic, everything was very ordinary. And what I found is that even if the route is, you know, familiar, I still have to consciously ensure that I keep, you know, in, in, I'm very conscious of all the other things that are happening when I'm driving, because this banjo traffic is not, you know, very orderly, the roads are in bad condition. And there are so many things that are happening, you know, with regards to, you know, people, you know, cutting in, cutting out. So, I think the experience of driving is, for me, is not a good example, because I'm still very, very, I don't think of other things. I have to really focus on driving, even if the route is familiar. Yeah, that's what I wanted to say. Thank you. Thank you, brother Christopher, for sharing your point of view. Anyone else would like to add? Okay, what I, what I wanted to actually share is, like, other than the traffic and, you know, the new ways and the cut and thus, yes, we need to pay much attention to that area. But what I meant to say is, if there's no such problem, if you're monotonously taking the same route, what I meant to say is how our mind works, our mind gets familiar to what sister Rupa was sharing that if she's knitting and there's a parkour, still she can continue to knit because she, her mind has become very familiar to that method. So it may not be only knitting, we can also apply this to the keyboard, your finger, exactly the way you train, your finger goes to the right key to the right note, even without re-seeing the keypad. For example, it comes even to our typing. The way we get used to our typing, for example, if those who have finished the course on typewriting, the seniors, most of the seniors you're in our class, if you have gone, gone to a course on typewriting, your, your fingers are used to the key. So you don't have to actually look at the keys on your keyboard and both your finger, it goes exactly A, S, D, F, L, K, J, it just goes, the right fingers goes to the right key because our mind is trained to access it. So when it becomes familiar, you don't have to look into it. It takes automatically. The same way, our mind gets familiar in certain areas, certain areas at our work, it can be in our ministry, in our workplace. So there is a way, this is what some of the psychiatrists say, to keep our mind active and creative. We need to take a different route every day or just change the route every two days so that we tend to keep our mind active, creative. If you see a mind of a little child, it won't rest in one place because the mind is trying to learn new things. You see the child be very proactive, running everywhere, asking hundreds of questions why the mind want to realize, explore and learn new things. So as we grow, when the familiarity is, we tend to slow down. We tend not to use the mind. But one thing we need to know is, we should not say that we are aging, we are getting aged. So we are unable to think, we are not being so creative. It is the exercise that we give to our mind. We need to constantly keep learning, keep doing new things so that our mind is active. Keep looking at new things, keep looking at different aspects, kept up for the time the seas and growth of the technology. So we are getting ourselves updated and upgraded. I hope the class got what I'm trying to say. Did we get what I'm trying to say? Okay, I see the chat document. Yes. Okay, let's look at the other image. I have another image. Okay, the image is gone down. So we take this as the image. Next, this, this. So what do we look at in this image? What do you see in this image? Ma'am, it gives a view of front as well as side view of the same person. Yes. Front, that is the left side of the face and the side view of the front portion of the face, that is the right side of the person's face. At the right edge, if you see, you can see. When we look at the image from the right edge, you see the front face, front side of the face. And when you see at the left extreme, you see, you see the person's left side of the face. When we try to cover the edge, you know, when we try to cover the edges, you see, when we cover from our right side, we see the left side of the face. When you cover the left side, you see the front portion of the right side of the face. So these are certain perspectives that we can use to see different problems, to solve different problems. So like it's a new way of looking so that we are creative and we are also right in a new way of looking at the challenges of any problem in order to solve it. So creativity is that we know we can be creative. And in order to think, to solve a particular problem in a new way that we think that would be the solution. Okay. Or in different ways, creativity is about looking from different angles, looking from different angles, so that we can come to a solution. There may be 10 different ways that we could look into and come to the solution, but we need to be open enough. At the end of the day, we need to see to whether the problem is solved. So let's look at another term, word. That is, let me just say, innovative. Innovative. So what do you think about innovative or being innovative? What does it mean to be innovative? What does it mean for us to be innovative here? So anyone from the class, what do you think according to this innovative? So innovative means to make changes to something that is already established. So now this way, we try to solve a problem. Let's say that it has already been established. The way we know, then we introduce a new method or a new idea. It can also be a new process that we try to solve it. Or it can also be a new product that results in a new innovative or the right way that we can innovate a product that may help the advanced generation. So we need to be creative in our thinking in order to be innovative. So innovative is big changes to something that is already established or it is all by introducing new methods, new ideas and new products. So let's see some of the pictures where the innovation took place and time through the science and technology that help the growing generation to adapt and grow with it. So we can see that. How many of you have seen this image before and what is this? What do you think about the image, the product and the images? A telephone? It's a telephone. Yes, it is a phone. It is not a telephone or something. It is a telephone. So which initially this was the type of phone which was used where they had the handpiece separately from the earpiece and they used to communicate to use this instrument to communicate and later this, the technology was so innovative there, innovating to this. How many of us have come across this dial phone? Why a dial phone? How many has come across? Okay, Rupa has come across. Even I have used it. So in my home, when the telephone came, this was the first model phone that was introduced and they installed it and we were so excited just to keep dialing. You need to dial through the handpiece number. I think those days there were no cell phones. So it was only in India. It was a seven digit telephone number that we have to use and to dial different states, according to the state, we need to use codes. It has some state code, state code like for pilot is 080 or Chennai 04 or Mumbai 022 Delhi 011 if I'm right, I'm not too sure. So some of the codes that was by hearted in our minds, so because of our relatives in different places, so we used to buy the telephones and if I look back those days when we had these type of dial phones, our mind was so creative. Do you know why? Yes, we did have a telephone diary at home where we used to write down everyone's numbers but then more than 20 to 30 numbers we stored in our mind. Did anyone have that experience? Stored in telephone numbers, used telephone numbers in our mind. The telephone directory was unwind. More than 30 numbers were stored in the mind. Despite the age, everyone knew the number because we need to look at the diary, dial it. You know as you dial, automatically it gets stored. So your mind was actually creative enough to observe it in the hard way through. And we also see some of the other model phones of the innovation took place. How many of you all have seen this type of phone? A little bit, okay. That was a bulky phone. This model was little bulk and nature square, little heavy. And then this phone came to hang it on the wall. So that needs to be, this phone needs to be placed on the table but this model phone can be hung on the wall as well. As you dial, the dial system is same, okay. But this model can be hung on the wall as well. Can be kept on a table and hung on the wall and see the next innovation. Let me see that. Okay. Okay. I think that's the last one I had in the slide. Okay. So what happened? After that, we see different, the innovation took place from these phones to a smaller one, lightweight one, just the dial keypad ones. And then later you see, we started with the mobile phones. How many of you all remember the first model phone that was launched in India? Yes. Go ahead to them. Nokia, rich model. Initially, ma'am, those pages had come and then it sucked me, right. After pages, they had those phones but those are very heavy ones, Siemens and so I remember that heavy phone which used to be there. Yes, let me show you this picture. I have one with me. Yeah, heavy ones, the pages were there. Yes, I missed on the pages. Thanks of me for bringing that up. And I'm just trying to bring this picture. Okay, let me share it. I'm just sharing all this to know how creative we are. There's no reason for us to say that we are not creative because creativity is a gift. It is a gift that God has given each of us. So, do you all remember these models? I'm not sure in other places in the world. Do you all remember any of these phones that you have used? Yes ma'am. Most of them we are. Or at least we would have seen our parents use such phones. In 1987, yeah, these phones were very heavy. And then we have 1992 another model, 1994 another, 97, 98. I remember my parents using the phones that is in 99 or 2000. That was a 2000 model, no care. That was the one I remember my dad had it and we all used to take turns to just have it and I had to feel the phone and play with it and there was one game at that. That was a snake game, continuously playing the same game again and again. Yeah, so you see how the creativity, how there was an innovation in the model keeping people in mind. Keeping people in mind. There was always constant change, constant innovation. Now who created this? Who came up with this innovation model? It's we people. So God has given each of us the mind to be thoughtful, to be creative and to be innovative. And now, did it stop there? You see smartphones, touch screen that came after that. Then it didn't stop with that. Then it came with the cameras, front and back cameras. And when it came front and back to promote that type of phone, they came up with the selfie mode, you know, which was not very innovative, but then they came up with selfie and now you see everyone wanted the smartphone with the selfie thing. And now they're trying to shrink it in such a small way like every watch has a hat system they call. I don't have to bring a picture because that's the generation that we all are living in. Okay, and now with the AI technology, it's going to be much more simple, much more innovative. You see this constant change, this constant improvement, this constant creativity. So if a human mind is able to think and be creative in this one particular area, how much more creative you and I can be in the area of ministry, but God has assigned each one of us to. So the one thing that we need to realize is we have placed our own limitation over ourselves. We need to remove that limitation for us to be creative in the area that God has called us to be. We have technology, we have tools, we have resources, we need to tap into it. We need to ask God, God, you are the creator, you are the source of all wisdom. And I need the creativity in my ministry, in my workplace. Give me, give me the new ideas that I can implement it. When you ask when you see God continually, till you receive it, you see God gives it to you. He has raised you as a leader, one by chance. He is a God who is leading us. The God who instructed Moses that he has given this wisdom degree, given this creativity to Bezalier, the same God who has raised you and I in this area, in this medium. He will be, He will give us the creativity that is made He will make us, you know, He will give us the creativity for us to innovate new things in the area of ministry, wherever we serve Him. He will make us a blessing. Simple as that. You know, this past week I'm studying on John 15, so much of revelation from that one scripture. You see the passage that talks about the relationship between the wine and the branch. You know, it clearly says that you cannot do anything without me. But it says you cannot do anything without me. And with me, you will be fruitful. So very simple. For us to do the impossible things, possible. For us to make these supernatural things natural. For us to be fruitful in every area where God has placed us. It may be in a marketplace, workplace or in the ministry. Let's not complain and say, Lord, it's too difficult. This is not my cup of tea. I cannot do this. But then God is saying, ask me, abide in me, partner with me. And I will make you fruitful. I will make you creative. I will give you every innovative idea that you need. So this is something, friends, that we need to ask God that God, as I abide in you, make me more creative. Make me more innovative. Because God is the source of all wisdom. And we can tap into that wisdom. We have the access to this wisdom because we abide in Him and He's abiding in us. The God of creativity is abiding in us. So He will make us creative in every area that we are. So let's believe that the creative God has announced. The scripture also says that you shall have whatever you believe. So we need to believe. We need to renew our mind that we are creative. We are innovative. Let not age put a stop on each of us. We are growing strong day by day. We are growing young. We are growing creative when we are in Him. We are in Him. So that's what I would like to share from this class on being creative and innovative that we are creative. Despite our age, we are creative because we are abiding in Him and He in us. Okay, with that, I would like to open up to the class that you would like to share. Like how God helped you to be creative in your workplace, in your ministry, when you depended on Him. Anyone from the class would like to share. Elisha, Tarsha, Maxine, anyone from the class would have not called your name. You can just unmute and share how God helped you, how God gave you this creative thought to help handle a situation or how He gave you a creative thought to create a product. It can be anything that God helped you. You got this wisdom literally from God. I will share something, but we will laugh at it. That's okay. This is something I received from God. When I got married, I realized that my husband liked very good food and he was not happy with anything our cook used to make. So in the beginning, I was very fearful because I was not very good at it. I know cooking, but not to the extent, not expert at it. But when I started praying about it, God used to give me ideas about recipes. And those recipes have worked out so well. Many people, they come, it's so good. But I always give credit to God because he had taught me every simple thing. There are so many new things God has taught me. So not only in cooking and everything in ministry, giving me new ideas with the children, with the youth, how to reach out to them, how to draw their attention when we preach. There are so many things God keeps on. When we look on to Him, the helper in us, Father, please help me, Holy Spirit God. I don't know how to reach out to these people, how to make that impact. God immediately gave a very beautiful idea so that Yes. Yes. We are now able to hear from you, Sister Rupa. Thank you for sharing. Anyone else in the class would like to share? Manki, Prabhakar, Nisha, Harrison. You can just share how Lord helped you to be creative, to be innovative in the place where you are. Just to let us know that we all are creative, that God imparts his wisdom, imparts his creativity in us, despite the area that we are in. He's interested, not just in ministry, he's just interested in us and our personal things at home and handling a family, a workplace, ministry. Anyone would like to share? Subajit, Siddhant, anyone from the class, just unmute and share how Lord, we have two students here, Kumbh and Asha, very creative. They are very creative in many things at the college, proactively taking up the initiatives and, you know, they do everything very well. And we also have Apinas and Siddhant, they are a great help. They are very creative and innovative, been of a great help to me and in many tasks at our college. They seem to be very silent today. I'm not to show why, you know, I'm muting to share some of the experience where they come across the ministry, the area that they see, but I would like to tell you that they are very creative. So just like them, I'm sure each of us in our class are very creative, because we are abiding in them. Yes, Avni, please go ahead. So ma'am, this is about like when I started teaching the Sunday school children in Delhi. So we had a few bunch of children, very, we had a small church and I was teaching these children. So I had just resigned from my teaching job and come to Delhi. I was in Dubai before. So there we were taught a lot of ideas of touching these lives. Young children, I was a primary teacher there. And there was some very innovative ideas that we had learned. So we were being trained for that how to, you know, make learning happen and how children can learn well when we use such ideas, not just give a lecture or just teach them stories. So when I came back, these were these children who were who were church children. But then I started using those ideas in the Sunday school of using puppets of using some innovative ideas of, you know, teaching children to put up short skates and many other ways and doing crafts and doing some activities. So within six months, we see that we saw that from 30 came to 60 children and these children started coming one by one and these were mostly from slum areas. They would only come for Sunday school because they enjoyed the class and I used to thank God because I was trained and being paid to be trained as a teacher. But God helped me use those ideas for these small 60 70 children were very regular. And they would enjoy the stories. They would enjoy those lessons on the Bible being implemented in the children's church. And we saw that immense growth. And then at the point of time on Christmas time, we, you know, we made a we had a small fit. We didn't have a place. We had a small roof probably where we had a small fit where these children, they created things with their own hands and they, you know, put up a stall like 10 bookmarks for fridge magnets, they would make 20 rupees for a fridge magnet and they had these things sold out and, you know, out of hardly 100 people. We collected some raised up some funds for our Sunday school for these children to be, you know, used for their material resources to give them home. So we use these ideas in the children's church and these lives were greatly blessed and they learned so many things like everything we used to do with hands and not buy things from outside to decorate the church to, you know, send them these materials with children with the messages on it with verses on it. And we would do that in the Sunday school. So that's what I wanted to share. So it blessed me a lot because I learned so much. And this helped children get so much interested that they would come early to the children's church and sit and wait what is happening today. So I've enjoyed that blessing. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Thank you, Avni sharing your experience, what you had at Delhi. But then class, I want to let you know that Avni just didn't stop Sunday school or teaching or imparting the knowledge that she gained the children in Delhi, but she's continuing to be a blessing to the children even at a central, ATC central, that is the main church of ATC in Bangalore. She comes very far, though she stays very far, she comes week after week and be a blessing to the children's church in Bangalore. Thank you, Avni, for the heart that you serve week after week and being a blessing to the children. And class, yes, one thing I would like to leave the class with. The scripture was Mark 923, which talks about if Jesus said to him, if you can believe, all things are possible to him, oh, please. So if we each of us in the class believe that we are creative and we are innovative, greatest creative God could do greater things in and through us. We need to renew our mind and believe in a heart that we are creative. We are innovative despite our age, despite our circumstances, despite the place where we are. You may be in the workplace, so you don't have to think, what can God have to do in the workplace, but what the scripture says, God will make you full in the place where you are. So each of us, from the place where we are, when we call upon the creative God, he's going to do greater things in and through us. So just that we should not limit God to what he can do through us. Okay, so with that, I will leave you all and I would request one of us from our class to end the session with a word of prayer and next class we will look into critical thinking. Can I request one of you all to unmute and pray? Can I pray now? Yes. Thank you. Father God, we are so very thankful to you for we know Lord you created this world and all creativity, source of all creation and creativity comes from you. And as we are tapped into your spirit, Father, you have given us that spirit in us. And Lord, in this time when we are learning about how to be creative and how to be a blessing to the people around us, to the ministries that we have, Father, we ask you to fill us with that wisdom and that creativity in us, Father, which would touch lives in different ways. And Lord Father, may your name be glorified through our life, your name be exalted in our lives and through our lives, Father, and through the area of influence wherever you have kept us, Father, be it in just in homes, Lord, even when we are cooking food or we are a lot serving people, we may be creative in our ideas that would bless others and bring glory to your name only, Father. Each of us, Father, we surrender our will to you, Father, knowing that you are the source of all wisdom and knowledge and understanding and creativity of our Father. We continue to look up to you for more ideas, for more of your Lord Father's creative skills to be blessed in us and given to us so that we may use them to glorify you in every possible way. Once again, we thank you for the lesson we read. Thank you for a pastor who taught us with so much of grace and wisdom. We thank you for anointing her and blessing, making a blessing to us through her, Father. We thank you for everything. We give you glory on it and praise for who you are and how you lead us. In Jesus' name we ask and we pray. Amen. Thank you. Thank you each one for joining this session. God bless. We will meet you all in the next class. Thank you. God bless. Thank you, Mom. Thank you.