Spider Mantis! Hoo Haa! =)

Hey

So yesterday, I didn't really get to explain very much so I'm hoping I can spend a little more time typing today. Kind of got distracted yesterday =P

So yesterday's name of the post was head count and clump. Haha they're each something we told the kids to do and it was amazing what came out of it. Head count's basically where we scream out "HEADCOUNT!" and they number themselves off and they're supposed to form a straight line. Haha we usually do it just to grab their attention and make sure they're all here because we have some crazy wanderers. And yesterday when we first did it, it was pretty awesome watching them =P
Of course they're not perfect at it by any means but it's cute and hopefully it continues to work. Today it was a little less effective.

And Clump was just something really cute =) So we were playing the toilet paper wrap game where they're supposed to wrap in toilet paper and travel across the gym together. So we told them to clump and they all just hugged each other in this amazingly cute bundle. And they were like "Can we have the toilet paper now? we're getting tired?" and it was absolutely adorable. I wish I had taken a picture. But it'll hopefully be in my head for a while =)

It's good. That God has these memories in me to remember. Because on days like today where the kids were pretty rowdy, I'm able to have patience and love because I remember how awesome these kids can be. =)

Today was a little more rowdy. Frieda and Felix started wandering around like ALOT. haha during lunch I couldn't get Felix stay with the group. I guess for games time I was little upset because Felix told me and Sabrina to go away. And he actually like said it. And he really doesn't talk very much. But he seemed alright afterwards. Kind of. Hopefully he's more excited tomorrow.

And today I realized that even though they might not be the most excited looking kids, they're still excited. Why? Because this morning I asked Tiffany who's a pretty quiet kid if she was excited for the day. She shook her head. Better than most shake of the heads =) and she smiled. Slightly. And that was probably the most awesome part of my morning =)
Because knowing that your kids are excited...well it makes you feel pretty awesome because it's like you're doing SOMETHING right =)

Today's post title is named after our team/cheer =P
so William wanted spider. 2 more wanted Praying mantis. Our original idea was dragonfly but the air group took that SO we made a SUPER HYBRID! =)
Haha gotta like appease the children so that's what we did.

TOMORROW'S BOWLING! =)
it's exciting =P

And so I should probably update on something that's not VBC =P
you know, seeing as I do have about 5 hours afterwards everyday =)

For the past couple of days I've been reading Mark and i'm at this one verse. It's when Jesus sends out the Twelve disciples and tells them that they don't really need anything. It's in Mark 6. And it's got me kind of thinking .Because often i find that when we minister or when we preach we use other things to help us and sometimes we use them like crutches. Like sometimes we think we NEED a band or we NEED a certain thing but I guess this verse has made me think that I don't really need anything. Well it's not really me, it's the fact that God's telling me I don't need anything. And maybe this is something I'm struggling with. But it's something I hope i'll come to think about for a while because it's important.

And I hope she's alright. Because well...she seemed kind of sad and cluttered today.

Thanks
-Chris