story behind the song

songs are very personal and sometimes it hard to start singing your own music and getting it out there but it has been given for a reason.
Here is a little story about Sunday School Girl

I guess as a kid growing up in a church going family, i never really grasped the value of sunday school. Church was not an option for me as a kid growing up and the stars on the attendance chart never had any gaps which made the gaps
more noticeable.

The "Gap" kids were the kids that showed up occasionally for Sunday School ,thus creating the gap between the stars, and would hardly ever be seen at a night service.

I didn't realize from my perspective then that these kids were there because they wanted to be in contrast to myself having to be. Only later in life when i had been away from God and ended up living in a less than desirable environment did i start to realize the value of the church.

In 1999 in Marble Hill, MO on a sunday morning i saw her sitting there, Just a little girl alone on the front pew. I could see from her tattered dress and scuffed shoes that she wasn't from the subdivision but she seemed oblivious to her ragged appearance during the song service as she san along and clapped while on the edge of her seat.

I leaned over and inquired from Pastor Doyle Mitchell about the little girl's parents as i didn't see anyone that looked
like a match. He told me that they had picked her up for about 5 weeks and that she was always waiting out side of her
rundown residence and that her parents were struggling with drug and alcohol issues.

As i looked back at the little girl who woke herself up on sunday morning to be in sunday school God spoke to me.
I realized that it was more than a building, or a music department or a decorated sunday school class that was the appeal but it was being able to slip out of her environment for two hours and be in the presence of God.

She would walk into the same beat-up place after church and face the same people but for two hours she could
experience something extraordinary.

After lunch was over that day and i was all alone the the little room attached to the church building, God spoke to me in a
very powerful way and i was inspired to write the words to Sunday School Girl.

I have realized in the years since then that we are all similar despite our social, economic or age status. We all struggle with life and face things that become obstacles and major issues to us but for two hours on sunday morning and sunday night and on wednesday night we can slip into a world where its just us and Jesus and there we find shelter, mercy and grace and strength to go on.

Sunday School Girl may tell about a little girl, but it is a song about how big the church is and that it is our refuge.

Larry Carter

I remember when I first heard Sunday School Girl. there was tear in my eyes because what Wink was singing about I had seen right there in our little town. I think this song has caused alot of people shed a tear because it hit home with everone because every one knew a "Sunday School Girl" there has been thousands of tears shead because of this song

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I can say out of all winks songs I can say I love sunday school girl the best, I cannot hear it without crying its a powerful song