Today we started the day just like we did monday and tuesday by getting to the church early to get ready for the kids to come. Then as the kids began to arrive we took them into the sunday school rooms to play games such as hot-hoops, connect four, and checkers. Then it was a very special time of the day. LUNCH TIME!! We took the kids in and seated them by team color. Then we served them their food and drinks. While they were eating we talked about stuff like what they had done last night and yesterdays lesson.

After lunch we had all the kids come into the sanctuary to do games, fun dancing, and also to see a skit about faith. The skit showed a basketball game where the player were losing by alot but believed they could win and ended up winning on a last second shot because they had faith.

Following another song we dismissed the kids. P.S. we had 78 kids today praise God. They went to one of the four stations karate, game room, kickball, or a craft where they made rainbow mobile things. The kids enjoyed doing all of these things.

After the 4 teams had been to each of the four stations, we headed back into the sanctuary to sing more songs, listen to a lesson, and have some discussion with the kids. The lesson today was on a man that Jesus healed in Capernaum. This man was a paralytic and had come to Jesus with the help of his great friends who had to lower him through the roof of a house to get him to Jesus. Subsequently we heard from a man who told the same story through a really neat painting. Then we broke up into small groups of about 5 including a leader and talked about the lesson and what the kids had learned. Once the discussion was over we sang a song and the kids got snacks and were picked up.
G. Paul Moak

Lil’ Extreme Blog: Day 4

Today started out just like all the other days with games and then lunch little did the kids know today was going to be a very special day! So the dancing, singing, and skit at the beginning went really well it was so encouraging to see all the kids jumpin around praising Jesus!!

When we dismissed into the separate areas the blue team stayed in the sanctuary to do karate. P.S. Karate for Christ is Tuesday and Thursday nights from 7 – 8:30 at the church. We learned that it’s not good to tense up when we do things but we need to relax and rely on God even when we’re doing difficult things. We read Psalm 46:10 which says

“Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”

Then we saw Brian break a CYDERBLOCK but not by tightening up but by relaxing and relying on God to help him.

After Karate we went and did the Cha-Cha slide which was alot of fun! Then we made little awesome lady bug magnets with attena and everything! Then finally one part of this special day came around we handed out the kids T-shirts after we did a fun obstacle course. The kids went running to to put their shirts on!

Once they all had their shirts on we were ready to go back into the sanctuary and listen to another great lesson. Today it was about Jesus. And how He had to die so that we could be forgiven of our sins and feel clean. Then we saw a painting about the same thing and how Jesus had been beaten for us!! Following the painting we used an illustration that all the kids enjoyed where we used paper and tore the paper only once and made a cross and told them the story of the cross another way. Today was so special because it was a big push to share the gospel and have the Holy Spirit work in these kids lives.

Thank you all for your prayers it’s really important to pray and because of prayer this week has gone really well!! It’s all because of God and His power not because of anything we’ve done!