STEM '10 Week One Day Four

Our final day in Cleveland.
21 VBSers
3+ decisions
Great job by the team canvassing, and doing their assignments.
Great tear down, and we will be meeting @ 5:30am to load and leave for SLC!!

STEM '10 Week One Day Three

DAY 3.

This is when the newness has worn off a bit.  One thing we had going that WAS new was the lunch and Wednesday service. Our teens helped with kids, served food, fellowshipped, sang a song, and did a lot of setting up, cleaning up, and tearing down.

VBS had 21 kids.  It was a good number, and it included some pretty feisty children.  Overall, however, the quality of the Bible time, craft time, games, and verses is very good.  This team is working very hard and is doing a quality job.

Tomorrow will close out the first phase of our trip.  Pray for decisions and a TON of kids (we think we can handle it!

STEM '10 Week One Day Two

Not alot to report on other than another great day of VBS.  About 8 new kids, but we were missing some due to the pool opening up (it's a hot one).  Finished with Steak N Shake and hide and seek. (lots of fun, and only a couple of injuries!

Big day tomorrow with choir, me preaching, lunch serving, and the regular VBS.

Thanks for the prayers!

STEM '10 Week One Day One

Our Youth Missions Trip started off very well today. We took off at 9:15a and arrived at Faith Baptist Community Center just before 10a.  This left us with about two hours to transform the center into a racing themed setting, ready for Bible time, Craft time, games, puppets, and an opening and closing time filled with songs and fun.

The team did a great job (see the pics) and was pretty well prepared by lunch time.  Lunch was provided by our friends at the center, and then it was time to get into the housing complex across the street for some canvassing and rounding up.

Our VBS had 19 young people arrive, which was a pretty good number, considering the holiday turnover.  Everything ran very smooth, and the team did very well.

After some clean up, the we spent time doing our Missions Trip devos and spending a little time reviewing the day.  We covered what we did well, what we needed to improve on, what we learned, and what was cool.  Then we each said what we appreciated about something we saw somebody else do.

After our final cleanup and run-through for Tuesday, we loaded up and did a little split Chik-Fil-a and Chipotle time for supper and arrived home early.

Thanks so much for the prayers, pray for more kids, and more opportunities for our teens to show and share Christ's love.