Last day at Sites
Today was another rainy day, which meant the mega-relay was cancelled, and the events for Saturday were compressed into the end of today, which means there is nothing but breakfast on Saturday.
Updates…
Emily
- talked with residents - and a Mom and kids.
- there wasn’t much work to do today
- got a necklace from the family she was talking to
- plyed soccer
Melissa H
- not alot of work today either.
- played soccer
Chelsea
- Interesting day
- got alot of paint on themselves - more than the walls
- took down more wall and ceiling covering
Matt D
- went to a mall to talk to people and hand out flyers
- liked the pet store
- nursing home - poems, skit, singing
- also got popsicles at the home
Mark
- called it a role reversal for this week…he used a circular saw to cut lattice work
- took pictures of most of our kids on their sites working
- saw many in action and was proud of them
- liked seeing everyone working
Alicia
- mall - didn’t talk with too many people
- nursing home - talke to some of the people
Lauren
- handed out flyers…actually got directly rejected twice…but thats ok since she still tried
- talked to people at nursing home
Melissa D
- more building fences
- like working with Mark.
Laura
- finished fences with Miss Jenny
- everyone else playing soccer
- there was a mud fight of some sort
Matt R
- while driving stakes, hit Hunter in the head with a sledge hammer
- he is just fine…he eventually went to the hospital as a precaution, and there is not injury really
- put up a bunch of fences
- drove many other stakes without hitting anyone with the sledge hammer
John
- ripped don more walls and ceiling material at the church
- other work at the church
- there was a paint war where more paint got on the kids than on the walls
Jeremy
- played with kids at the site…with an inflatable shark and with a kid named Noah
- the shark wound up popped from hitting each other so hard with it
- played soccer against the girls “and let them win”…NOT!
Diane
- community center - many more people there today
- talked with a lady who was stuck in Denmark during WWII
- cleared a park dressed in trash bags for rain gear
- 2 of the kids wouldn’t get off the bus to help, so she was asked to “sternly prompt them”
- people on the site thought they were all from the same church
Rob
- Bible school complete!
- last day was Noah’s Ark which included using some Beanie Babies prvided to us by Esther Bookheimer
- it was very moving to see all the kids we worked with all week in front of the church and their parents singing the songs and doing the motions we had all had a part in teaching them
- some of the parents thought we were at a conference for ALL the Christians in the US…meaning that the 300 they knew about were ALL the Christians
- we cleaned up the entire church after the end of VBS
- we also went to a ladies house on the way back to campus who is turning her house into a place for people to hold bible studies, and as a religious retreat
- it was a very long day…we didnt get back to campus until after dinner started
Nicki
- was at the YMCA again
- she had some of the beanie babies also
- wrote “Jesus Loves You” on the tags and handed them out
- the person there went to each kid and cut the tags off
- this was a YMCA in a church…and they were not allowed to talk about God.
The end of the day was very encouraging. A woman and her family that Mark had talked to came to our worship service. She wound up with Mark and Nicki and accepted Christ. She actually had no basis for what that meant since she never had sunday school, VBS, etc to get a basic acquaintance with God. Nicki talked with her for over an hour while mant of the FBC kids watched and entertained her kids. Nicki and I headed out to McDonalds and got her and them food…it was nearly midnight when she left. Praise God that we actually saw one person saved!
We ended the say in Jeremy and Matts room with Mark going around the room talking about his impressions of each kid and leader, and the week they had. We also appreciate Mark for all of the energy he puts into everything he does with the Youth here at FBC.
Bed was very welcome today, although it was pretty late with all the activities of the day, and packing suitcases.