Monday – Chloe

     We got up and got ready and met for a final full team meeting before we headed out. The drive is forty-five minutes long so we had some fun talking and making jokes in our crazy car. We got there and set up, figuring out what resources we have to use. The kids started arriving quickly and they ranged in age from three to fifteen. I got to work with the preschoolers and they were so sweet and cute. All they want is for you to play with them and hold them. We started out with the parachute and coloring to entertain and get the kids engaged. About thirty-five kids showed up to hear about God's word. We did some songs and the memory verse to calm the kids down before we got the skit going, which the kids loved. After that we separated the preschoolers and elementary-middle schoolers to do snack, crafts, and games. We got to paint the wall with water and glue tissue paper on a picture of a well. There was one boy who just wanted to be difficult and started throwing and blowing tissue paper allover the floor which intrigued two other little boys to do the same. We finished out as a big group with a few more songs and then the kids started leaving. Lunch was waiting for us at the park and we started doing crafts, face paint, soccer, baseball, and women's crafts. I started on the playground but then moved to the lanyard and friendship bracelet table, where I started a bunch of lanyards for people of all ages. St. Johns invited us for dinner so we headed over there and had tri-tip sandwiches as the town provided us with entertainment. Girls of all ages performed a traditional Mexican dance for us, one high-schooler performed Ava Maria for us, and one man played Amazing Grace for us on a bagpipe. It was a girl in our groups birthday so there was plenty of cake. We returned to camp late that night and had to go pretty much straight to bed. The girls in the tent next to us were cold and uncomfortable the night before so we squeezed seven people into a four person tent to sleep.

Having fun with preschoolers and a parachute

Soccer with the big kids