speech writing

I spoke at faith bible fellowship church on April 14 of this year. The purpose was to help the little kids learn about God. My audience consisted of more than 20 children that are apart of the Youth group at the faith bible fellowship church. I spoke about Daniel and the lion’s den. In this story Daniel got thrown into a whole that contained a lion. King Dariaus made a law that no one could pray to God for 30 days. Daniel did not follow the new law and was caught praying to God so he was thrown into a den filled with lions. The king came back to check on Daniel and he was still alive. To summarize the story, Daniel’s faith in God protected him. This story that I told the kids was about 10-15 min. I did not feel as comfortable as I thought I would. I felt very nervous I think because there were a lot of kids there and some parents also. I was sweating a good bit and had a lot of stress on my mind.
The kids’ reaction to the story was as expected. Seeing as the kids were very young, mainly around the age of 5, they were very interested in the story because it had lions in it and were shocked the lions did not eat Daniel. They asked many questions afterward like why didn’t the lion eat him, so there was much I had to explain but I was not as nervous explaining it as I was reading it. All in all I think the story went very well and don’t think my nervousness was very noticeable. I could not really prepare for it seeing as I just read a story but I think I need to work on not psyching myself out before presenting. I communicated well with the kids and had a good time in the end. I would and am probably going to do this again within a few weeks because I might start to help out at the church. The outside speech was a great learning experience that I think is definitely crucial in the overall improvement and curriculum of speech class.