Happy Birthday, Jesus

Our final Christmas event for the kids in our ministry was the “Happy Birthday, Jesus” party. We played Christmas games, acted out the Christmas story complete with costumes, had a surprise visit from Vicki the puppet; aka, my daughter Amanda, passed out treat bags, sang Christmas carols, ate cupcakes and sang “Happy Birthday.” See how Miss [...]

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Found it!

It’s always good to have your camera cords! Since I found the case and cords, here are a couple of images from the last week or so:
Jason and Brandy hosted a Community Kids Fall Party for their neighborhood. They had games, treats, singing, outdoor play, cookie decorating and a “Glow Party.” Of course, we especially loved [...]

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A Few Random Pix/Vids from this week…

Lydia loves nature: dogs, leaves, birds, bugs and exploring. We spied this beautiful monarch butterfly in the backyard. Lydia was a little leery of holding the butterfly, so we put it on her foot.  I haven’t seen anything much more adorable than that little baby foot adorned by God’s colorful creation!

Amanda had a Survivor party, to [...]

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Back to School!

Friday was our first regular ministry afternoon of the new school year. We had a wonderful time. There was excitement and expectancy in the air. The kids were cooperative. We had put in a couple of days of cleaning, organizing and preparing…and it was well worth it!
This school year we decided to to our best [...]

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Lots of stuff

Here’s what I’m working on right now:
Concepts 21 Kids Club (see Square Peg Ministries tab above)- this is the last week of Superbook Olympics. We’ve been studying the book of Mark. We’re only going to finish through Chapter 5. However, we did learn a lot of Bible stories and where to find them. Most importantly, [...]

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Balloon Launch at Kids Club

Today we kicked off our summer program, Superbook Olympics, at the apartment complex where we hold our weekly outreach ministries. We had approximately 35 elementary kids, 3 middle school assistants and 5 adults. It was really, really fun; even though we were outside and the weather got a little threatening! The kids were excited by [...]

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Oh boy.

Yikes, these last couple of days have been crazy. Step into the whirlwind:
Sunday 
Monday: can’t remember it….Oh yeah, it was Memorial Day.
Tuesday morning: worked like crazy on PreCamp Staff Training stuff (see
Camp Rocks tab, above.) There is a lot of detail in a week long camp and the staff training is a big indicator of our [...]

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Graduation Festivities

I know the big news in graduations is High School and College. However, this past weekend was 8th grade graduation fun for our church middle schoolers. Each year, we host a warm, low-pressure graduation event that’s easy to do and a huge hit with the kids. Here’s how it went this year:
We set up a 6′ [...]

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