Time for a Party!

Who doesn't love to have a party once in a while?! We got our night started off with a praise report. Jaylah Simpson had had a very bad allergy attack on Tuesday night while at church for a meeting - her eyes swelled up so bad that she couldn't open them the whole way. Well, some who were there gathered around her and prayed for her. By the time that we were done, her left eye was almost completely returned to normal and the right eye was significantly better! Well, when she came in to KC, both of her eyes were completely normal!! We shared this with the kids and they were excited to Praise Jesus with us for His healing power! What a way to build the faith of young people - real examples in the lives of their friends teaches better than any program we can put together.

For our party, the Orange team chose to have games for the activities, so we chose 4 different games and had a snack station - enabling us to divide the kids into 5 groups.

For the first group, we had a snack station. The orange team had a tie between cupcakes and ice cream, so we compromised - we gave them both!!

Donald, a visitor, Dylan, Corbin, Caitlyn, Tony:

Gavin, Jayce, Ben, a visitor and Colin:

Aman, Alyssa, Christina, Charissa and a visitor:

They didn't seem to mind!

Our 1st game was a Bible BINGO game, led by Sister Dawn:

Amber and Devin:

Faith and Kennedy:

The 2nd game was Pass the Present, led by Sister Tammy. The children sat in a circle and were given a present wrapped up in 7 layers. When the music played they were to pass the present around the circle. When the music stopped, whoever was holding the present got to take off one layer of the paper. There was a slip of paper on top of the next layer giving them an instruction. If they followed what it said, they would receive a piece of candy. If not, that was OK, but no candy! Play continued until each layer was unwrapped. Whoever unwrapped the last layer received a prize.

Amber, Jaylah and Kennedy:

Faith, Devin, Elijah and Presley:

Tess and Erica:

Corbin:

Megan:

The third game was Scoop the Cotton, led by Sister Shanna. In this game, the children were separated into pairs. One child sat on the chair with a bowl on their lap while the other stood behind them holding a bowl full of cotton on their head. On "GO!" the child sitting had to use a spoon to try to scoop cotton out of the bowl on their head into the bowl on their lap. When time was up, they counted the balls and then switched roles and started again. At the end of the time, those with the most cotton won a prize.

Jackinson and Colin:

Donald and Devon hold bowls for Chris and Corbin:

Peyton and Cheyenne hold bowls for Zach and Tess:

Faith, Alex, Jaylah and Elijah hold bowls for Kennedy, Presley, Amber and Devin:

Kirsten and Caleb hold bowls for Angelica and Andrew:

The final game was "Fruit Basket Turnover", led by Brother Mark. This is a fun and energetic game! The children start out on a chair, in a circle, with one less chair than there are children The child without a chair is in the center of the circle. The leader then goes around the circle telling each child a type of fruit that they are for the game - apples, bananas or grapes - until all of the children have one. Then, the child in the middle has a choice - they can call out one or two of the types of fruit OR, they can call out FRUIT BASKET TURNOVER! When they call something out, the children who fit the category must then find a new chair on the other side of the room before all the chairs are gone. Whoever is left without one is the new person in the center. Such a fun game that the kids always love and uses up a lot of that stored sugar energy!

Ben and Colin race for a new seat:

RUN!!!

From here on are some random shots of your children. Here is Kirsten smiling big for the camera:

Angelica:

Donald caught by surprise playing BINGO:

Christina (with Colin in the background!):

Aman (with Alyssa in the background!):

Dylan (with Megan in the background):

Angelina:

Charissa:

Mariah:

Delaney and Andrew:

Jayce with his prize:

Alex:

Lydia:

Zach:

Chris:

We had a great party and a lot of fun with your children. They all worked so hard to earn this and it was well deserved!