Since the last post, the kids and I have had a Question and Answer night, a laid-back plan night, and a missionary program night. The Q&A night was pretty successful. I actually had to tell some of them to hold off their questions so that some of the adults could get theirs in. What I mean by "laid-back plan night" is that I ended up not having many kids, so we talked about Youth Sunday and made signs for the carwash fundraiser. Then, on Wednesday night, I had a very successful lesson. It was rather short because our missionaries from India came to give a presentation and I wanted the kids to see it. The lesson was on two Fruits of the Spirit: Kindness and Gentleness. For our activity, I gave everyone an egg. I ended up giving out more than one to some to make up for accidents, but we used two dozen eggs for this activity. I had more kids that day than I ever had! It was awesome! Well, I had everyone poke holes in the top and bottom of their eggs and blow out all of the insides. Many broke at this point and had to start over, but luckily, I had plenty of eggs. Then, we wiped all of the goo off and drew faces on them. I informed them that they all had just "had a baby" and their assignment for the week was to be kind and gentle with their babies. To know that they have been, I gave them all some paper as their journals so they could document each kind thing they did for it. The question they gave me was, "What kind thing could I possibly do for an egg?" I told them that they could make a bed for it, read it a story, take it to the park, or anything really. Some eggs broke before the night was even over, but they really seemed excited about the activity! I told them that if they brought their egg back undamaged and with a full journal, they would be rewarded. I'm anxious to see how many of them completed it. After that, we listened to our guests from India talk about their missions and we watched movies that depicted what life is like for Christians in India. The kids kept asking me if it was real and I assured them that it was. At the end, most of them said they wanted to take a mission trip to India to help them. And one of my girls asked me why they all (meaning all of the people in India) didn't come to America with our missionaries.They were so precious.
Recently, we also had our carwash fundraiser. I had several kids come out to help and we washed quite a few cars! We ended up making about $400! This being about half of what we need for our trip to Six Flags. We have 27 kids and adults interested in going! I'm so excited! We're spending the morning at the water park, then having a picnic lunch that we're bringing, and spending the rest of the day/night in the "dry" part of the park riding rides, playing games, and watching tobyMac! I also want to get an Old Western Photoshoot in there somewhere for the whole group! I can't wait! Anyway, so, last minute, Tiff and I came up with an emergency fundraiser. On Sunday and Monday, we will be having a bake sale at Walmart. We're selling baked goods and lemon shake-ups. I think it'll be a good time. And I'm sure it will be successful, because lemon shake-ups sound fabulous when the weather is as hot as it was today. Now, I'm off to make bake sale and lemon shake-up signs.
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