Let me begin by explaining exactly what "Summer Fun" is. Summer Fun is a day camp that is put on for kids at the church. The first week will be for 4th-6th graders and then the next two weeks will be for kindergarden through 3rd graders. So three weeks of day camp from 7:50am to 2:30pm! We will also go on excursions to water parks and the zoo once a week. So what do the kids do during the day...indoor games, recreation, bible study, visual response, logic response, kinesthetic response (the responses are different ways to learn the Bible study), arts and crafts (my favorite!), electives such as cooking, woodwork, marine biology, and SO much more! The past two weeks, Dani Beth, Layce, and myself have been planning much of this out with help from some AMAZING volunteers including ladies from the church and the youth. We have been writing curriculum for the Bible study and responses and coming up with games for the kids to play during the day. It has been fun and I've enjoyed every moment of it! Also, it has been so good to take what I study in school and from coaching and take it into the planning for Summer Fun! Pray for the preparation that needs to be completed this next week before Summer Fun begins on June 27. Pray for rest and energy as we go through the week. Pray that we continue to seek God's plan and heart for the kids :)
When I first arrived in Hawaii, I felt so unprepared for the summer. In the past 3 weeks, God has completely showed me in so many different ways how he did prepare me to come serve at Hawaii Kai and how he gave me passions in my heart to do so. Isn't just amazing how God works in so many ways? I absolutely love standing back and just looking at what God has done, is doing, and is continuing to do and how it all ties together so perfectly. (I hope that made some kind of sense).
This past Thursday, we had our 2nd preteen girls Bible study. I get so excited when I talk about these girls, it just brings so much joy to my heart! God was working so much in that room this past week. He was just stirring the girls hearts and I could see Him beginning to work in them. We talked about peer pressure and the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abendego and how they didn't give in to the pressure that King Nebuchadnezzar was putting on them. If you haven't read this story, you should! It is one of my top favorites and is in Daniel 3, and if you have go back through and read it. Peer pressure isn't just something pre-teen girls struggle with but we all do, at college, work, you name it. We also modge podged magize cut outs and tissue paper onto journals to begin keeping prayer journals together! We went over the Lord's prayer in Matthew 6. It was so great to see the youth girls and preteen girls go over the lesson together! Pray for next Thursday night, the youth, the pre-teen girls, and Layce as she prepares the next Bible study. Pray for their hearts to be stirred for questions and a hunger for the Lord.
Well sometime in this week we also found time to eat with several families from the church. It is such a blessing for them to take us out and to get to know them. We ate at Jimmy Buffett's one night and the next, they cooked a home made meal. We also played several rounds of mexican train :)
Thank you all for reading and I hope that I will get to update a bit more this next week :) love you all!
"You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. INstead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven." Matthew 5:14-16
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