Name: Spreading the Feast Gathering
Start: 2025-07-11T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-07-12T23:59:59-05:00
Location: LaGrange, KY

This topic has 7 replies, 6 voices, and was last updated 12 years, 1 month ago by Sue.

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May 11, 2013 at 9:38 pm
Sara B.
Participant
OK, here’s a funny question… We are doing Philip and the Ethiopian tomorrow for Sunday School (3rd & 4th graders). Knowing my 2 girls who are in my class, and knowing my class in general, *someone* is going to ask what a eunuch is. How in the world do I explain that??? LOL I can do it just fine with my own children, it’s the other kids I’m more worried about. Who knows, maybe they will surprise me and not ask….
May 11, 2013 at 11:14 pm
suzukimom
Participant
Well, I know I’ve heard the suggestion of discussin eunuch’s in regards to singing of just saying it is a person that had an operation that makes them sing higher – without any details of what the operstion is…. Maybe something similar?
May 12, 2013 at 12:16 am
blue j
Participant
How about this? A eunuch is a man who has been specially trained to serve a royal family’s ladies and potentially protect them.
May 12, 2013 at 12:49 am
Bookworm
Participant
LOL. Do you happen to be a farm or country family? Makes these explanations a little easier . . .
May 12, 2013 at 1:33 am
Rachel White
Participant
I’d tell them to ask their parents. It’s not really your responsibility to tell the nitty-gritty details; you’re just telling them the account of an Ethiopian Jew (or Jewish proselyte) and Philip’s supernatural encounter.
He was a high official. Any more than that, leave it to their parents.
May 12, 2013 at 1:54 am
Rachel White
Participant
Additionally, if you told the class, you would probably lose the attention of the students and the big-picture point of your lesson and may have difficulty getting their minds and imaginations back in-line for learning.
Just a hunch.
May 12, 2013 at 2:02 am
suzukimom
Participant
I like blue j’s explanation. It doesn’t leave a mystery for the kids, doesn’t overstep your bounds into something a parent should explain, and should generally satisfy the class.
May 12, 2013 at 6:48 am
Sue
Participant
I had heard it explained by another Sunday School teacher that a eunuch was a special palace guard who was trained to protect the women’s living areas, and what made him special was that he was able to focus so totally on his job without being distracted by how beautiful the women were or by anything they were doing. The king could trust such a man to protect the queen, princesses, and their attendants.
With such an explanation, the children should be satisfied without your having to mention any “surgical procedure.”