God is King

7/18/14

The next day came to VBS and started getting all the tech stuff set up.  April was amazingly nice and brought Amy in with her and Adelaide (Sorry if I misspell her name).  There I introduced her to all the helpers in the 1st and 2nd grade group.  They all immediately clicked and were ready as the kids came in.  I only had one moment where I called Michael but couldn't get a hold of him.  He did call me back but Pastor Jim had already solved the problem.  In order for the sound to work you had to turn on the main system in the back.  :P  Who knew? The morning went very well and I was able to keep the PowerPoint going through both openings.

That day the kids made streamers in craft.  They were for singing and giving praise to the King of everything: God.  Amy fit right in and had the kids singing songs when they were done with craft.  Then we headed over to music.  April had them sing a couple of the songs they would be singing for the service.  She also had them practice how they would turn around and sing to their families in the sanctuary.  The 1st and 2nd still struggle through music but they did a good job today of listening and participating.  After that we headed out to game time.  For today we had the, apparently, annual tradition of drip drip splash.  I have talked about this earlier while we were in Chicago.  It is duck duck grey-duck but instead of that you drip for duck and you dump the cup of water for grey-duck.  The kids had a lot of fun with that and were pretty wet afterwards.  After game we headed downstairs for snack time and had bananas, tangerines, and grapes.  We had to make a scene of palm trees with them.

Then we headed out to Bible time and there we learned about John and his dream of heaven and end time.  We learned how glorious everything is going to be and how God is king.  It was a very well done lesson for a broad and tough subject.  We then went right next door to our mission area.  I didn't get a chance to see exactly what they did there because I had to get upstairs and work on the photo PowerPoint.  Lori and I worked on it and got a chunk done but not everything as the kids started to come in.  There were photos rolling as they came in so it was good.  Closing went great and I even had the song they were singing queued up ahead of time.  We reminded the kids several times of the worship on Friday and with that we sent them home.  We started cleaning up the area for the funeral that was happening on Saturday and we had some pizza for lunch.

After that Amy and I headed to my apartment and watched some Netflix and napped.  About sixish we went out to Denny's to eat and decided to hit up a movie.  We thought Transformers would be good since neither of us had seen it yet.  It was a good movie however it was very long.  They tried to tie up every plot hole at the very end with a hugely extended fight scene that was almost too much for me and way too much for Amy.  On a whole a good movie though.  Then with it being about 9:30 we went to Target to print off a registry for Amy's friend's baby shower and decided what gift we were getting.  Then helped her get all her stuff at my apartment and said our goodbyes to a fun time but too short.