VBS

This week I got to help out with the first week of VBS with my church.  The church we go to is a satellite campus of a larger church and we meet in a middle school.  Every Sunday people get up at 6am to unload our four trailers to set up.  We stay after church to load everything back up.  Over the last few months we have put together a “dream team”- we can pack and load by 1:10 every Sunday.  Last Sunday we had to pack differently because one trailer will be specifically for VBS. 

VBS was at an elementary school, we set up Sunday afternoon to make sure everything was ready on Monday morning.  I got the Kindergarten group.  On Monday we had 4 kiddos, 3 youth helpers and me.  Tuesday two girls did not show up again, but we got one new, and Wednesday everyone showed up for a total of 5.  Not too bad, overall there were probably between 40-50 Kindergarten-5th graders and about 25 youth and adult helpers.  Our theme was "JUMP putting faith in motion” following the life of Paul.  I was very impressed with my Ks, they all memorized the memory verse: “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, set an example for the believers in what you say and how you live.” 1 Timothy 4:12.

Unfortunately on Wednesday we had to tear down in the rain.  We then had to rearrange how we packed the trailer, because we had a few more VBS carts than that would fit in the trailer, so we had put them on a flatbed trailer behind our pastors F150 (normally we had F350s take the normal 4 trailers we pack up every week).  So when it was raining only a few of the carts were able to be on the flatbed trailer that were waterproof.  So we had to put a few extra carts in the big trailers, so it made for some finagling and praying- lol.

On Tuesday me and Russell went golfing again on a course out in Hempstead.   The course was really nice with some water.  I liked it- it was cheap, so I’m sure we will be going back.  Unfortunately Russell didn’t get off work that early, and the course had a policy that you had to be in by 8, so we only got 15 holes in.

Yesterday, we had dinner with Amanda and Leslie (her sister who flew in for the weekend).  We went to OTB (of course) lol, and then afterwards we went to our house and played some wii.  It was fun to hang out with them.  Russell fell asleep on the couch (remember we had a busy weekend last weekend- so he has been a sleepy boy all week).  But they didn’t end up leaving until 12:45.  Lots of fun and laughing and dying on Super Mario Brothers.

Some good news!  My sister Leslie passed her nursing test so she is officially an BSN, RN !!!