Week 6 - FBC Jamestown, Valley View Baptist Church, Calvary Church, Grace UMC, Woodland Acres & FBC Wheeler

Rosamond

We are so thankful to have had FBC Jamestown in Memphis this week! Bible club was a ton of fun for everyone involved, and we had a high of 43 kids on Friday! Games station adapted to the heat by bringing spray bottles to mist the kids' arms and necks as they ran around playing kickball, river jump, and "hockey"! Bible story was insanely fun, especially when the kids got to act out the 10 plagues against Pharaoh! Crafts did a great job of reinforcing the Bible story and reminding the kids that God made them special and unique, and the kids had fun learning the motions to I'm Trusting You! Science & missions station was awesome as well. The kids had so much fun learning about God's love for them through mini science experiments. Throughout the week, FBC Jamestown reinforced the theme that God is Good! By the end of the week, kids were walking around screaming "God is good!" Thank you, FBC Jamestown, for such a sweet week. We are so grateful!
- Brianna & Antone

Guernsey

Valley View Baptist Church was hangin’ out on G-Street this week! This group was super excited to go out and knock on all the houses, and they brought us a high of 58 kiddos! The kids had a focus memory verse all week that they would go over in each station. As we were walking the kids home, they would all shout Psalms 23:1-3 from memory, and then got candy for memorizing it. The team also took pictures of each individual child and at the end of the week, they got to decorate a craft with their picture on it. On Friday, all the kids got Bibles and they were all excited to go home and show them to their families. Bible story rocked it this week as they held up signs and let the kids act out the stories. In games, the kids played a bean bag toss with a life-size Goliath! They got into two teams and had a fun competition between each other. We are so excited to see what God has planned for the last half of the summer. Continue to pray for the families of Guernsey!
- Katie P. & Gracie 

Whittier

We had a great week 6 at Whitvegas with an amazing team from Calvary Church in St. Louis. The team came excited and ready to serve. Despite the extreme heat, we had a weekly high of 45 kids on Wednesday and we could not be happier to love on so many kids. Our kids loved all our Bible stories and paid attention so well. They even got candy for participating and helping act the story out! They were also encouraged to share the stories to their parents every day they got home from Bible club. Multiple brand new kids expressed that hearing the Bible story was their favorite part. The games station was full of fun with all their original relays, cone games, and sharks and minnows. Watching all the kids running around enjoying themselves encouraged everyone to engage even more and pour all their energy into them. Crafts were rockin’ this week as well. The kids loved making sheep out of cotton balls, bead bracelets, paper chains, and coloring their hearts out. The team started a songs station on Wednesday and the kids had a blast playing freeze dance and hot potato. Every time the kids got out, they had to do their favorite dance move — they thought it was hilarious & were so entertained. We are beyond grateful that Calvary came this week to serve our community and love on kids in not just at Whittier, but at Johnson and Jackson as well! 
- Claire & Kristin

National

Week 6 of Bible Club was an absolute blast! Valley View Baptist Church provided the National kids with an abundance of love and lots of fun. The kids learned the verse Psalm 23:1-3 this week. Each day they learned a new part of the memory verse and by the end of the week, almost every kid was able to recite the whole thing back to us. All of the kids were super engaged in Bible story each day. It was so sweet to hear the kids talk about what they had learned and to see them excited to learn about God's word. At games, the team had a giant Goliath bean bag toss game and the kids absolutely loved it! The kids had a blast at songs as well. They learned new dances and had dance-offs with the team. On Friday, the team gave each kid a brand new Bible and taught them how to read it and find certain verses. The kids faces lit up when they received them and some of them said they couldn't wait to go home and read it. What a joy it was to see so many kids excited to learn about God's word. Thank you Valley View for loving the kids so well. Each kid left Bible Club with a better idea of who Jesus is because of the love you all showed them. We can't wait to serve with y'all again!
- Morgan & Kara

Johnson

We had Calvary Church at Johnson this week and it was nothing less than great, despite the heat all week. Calvary loved the kids so well and helped us find many new kids as well as reconnect with some faces we have been seeing all summer. It was sweet to watch the team reconnect with the kiddos they remembered from last summer. We hit the summer high of 46 kids on Wednesday. The kids had so much fun at Bible story helping the team act out of the stories of Jesus. They learned about the beginning of the church, how to be a disciple of God, power of prayer and how God changes the world. The kids got to have some sweet conversations with the team at crafts about the Bible story. Games station was a blast all week. They ran lots of relay races, played kickball, and break the chain as well as many games of duck, duck, goose and Mr. bear. The kids also loved to dance with the team throughout the week. We want to thank Calvary for having so much energy and loving the kids so well all week long!
- Jordan & Andrea 

Que Que

I don’t know what you have heard but, Que Que parties rock the earth...and so did Grace United Methodist Church. The kids over at Que Que had an amazing time this week at bible club learning all about how no matter what life throws at you, GOD. IS. GOOD! The heat didn’t stop this group as our kids partied hard at songs this week with freeze dance, limbo, and epic dance-offs. They continued the party at games with fun relays, lions and gazelles, and football. Kids had a blast at Grace’s imagination station, where they incorporated science lessons in their crafts. They were so ecstatic every day to take home the experiments they did so they could share what they learned with their families. Our older boys would not stop talking about the book and ribbon craft they made and kept coming back day after day to see what other cool crafts they could make. Grace fought through multiple days of heat advisories by bringing out squirt bottles to keep the kids cool and calm throughout club. Grace UMC loved with every bit of energy they had and held nothing back. We ended our week at Que Que with a high of 33 kids! Thank you so much to Grace UMC for all the love and energy that you brought to Que Que this week! It was so sweet to see the Que Que kids walk up to club every day with a smile on their face because they could not wait to see what Grace’s team had planned for that day! We are so excited to see how God will continue to work in the lives of our kids for the rest of the summer!
-Michelle, Maci & Jess 

Pope

FBC Jamestown was hanging out at Bible Club Pope this week, and the kids had a blast! Our older boys loved playing basketball with a bouncy ball and a hula hoop in our games stations, and our older girls loved playing Little Sally Walker and having dance-offs in the songs station. Our youngest kids loved the science & missions station where they got to experiment with popping plastic balls into the air and watching where they would land. In Bible story, our kids learned about how God is good all of the time, even when we are in situations that are not so good. They learned this by hearing stories about the plagues and about Moses and the Red Sea. All of the kids enjoyed being able to act out these stories. Some kids played Moses and got to cross the Red Sea and others played Pharaoh’s people and got swallowed up by the Red Sea. Our crafts stations made so many fun things this week! Our kids got to make salvation bracelets, and people out of beads that were unique just like they are. We had a high of 35 kids on Friday, and each child went home with a backpack full of fun things. FBC Jamestown, I am so thankful for all of the love and fun things that you poured out this week at Bible Club Pope!
- Abbey

Jackson

Week 6 of Bible Club was an absolute blast! Valley View Baptist Church provided the National kids with an abundance of love and lots of fun. The kids learned the verse Psalm 23:1-3 this week. Each day they learned a new part of the memory verse and by the end of the week, almost every kid was able to recite the whole thing back to us. All of the kids were super engaged in Bible story each day. It was so sweet to hear the kids talk about what they had learned and to see them excited to learn about God's word. At games, the team had a giant Goliath bean bag toss game and the kids absolutely loved it! The kids had a blast at songs as well. They learned new dances and had dance-offs with the team. On Friday, the team gave each kid a brand new Bible and taught them how to read it and find certain verses. The kids faces lit up when they received them and some of them said they couldn't wait to go home and read it. What a joy it was to see so many kids excited to learn about God's word. Thank you Valley View for loving the kids so well. Each kid left Bible Club with a better idea of who Jesus is because of the love you all showed them. We can't wait to serve with y'all again! 
- Abby

Treadwell

Motivated, dedicated, ready to be educated! Treadwell! Treadwell! Woodland Acres Baptist Church gave us an amazing week at Treadwell. The kids had so much fun! They loved playing red light green light, zombie tag, Mr. Bear, and a rock-paper-scissors game! The kids loved crafts so much! They got to make bird necklaces, prayer and talent boxes, salvation bracelets, and even colored a picture of the word with a heart, and so many other fun crafts. In Bible story, the kids learned about generosity, being thankful for what talents God has them, and how to pray for others! Many of the kids got to pray aloud and they were so excited about it! In songs, our kiddos got to learn some new songs and dance to a lot of fun songs like the Whip and Nae Nae, Rolex, Old Town Road, and more! Thank you so much Woodland Acres Baptist Church for an amazing week and loving the kids so well.
- Tanisha

Baltic

What an awesome week at Bible Club Baltic! This week we had the privilege of serving with FBC Wheeler. The Wheeler team was tons of fun, and the kids loved them. On Monday, we had 15 kids, and it looked like the most fun Bible Club ever. Throughout the week, the team kept the kids engaged with pool noodle relays at games, dancing at songs, magic scratch papers at crafts, and animated stories at Bible story. One of my favorite moments was looking over at Bible Story and seeing the team and the kids holding hands and praying together. It was such a sweet picture of the unity we have together as believers, talking to the Lord together. Another sweet moment was at games on Wednesday. The team brought a parachute and it was a HIT. You could hear giggles and see smiles for miles from both the team and the kiddos. FBC Wheeler also took this week's challenges like champs! Heat advisories didn’t halt this team’s energy or love one bit. They walked everywhere to get our kiddos and poured everything out for them. If sweat and dirt are any indications of how involved they were, this team totally got it. During circle up before dismissal, it was so sweet to have kids coming up and saying, “I had so much fun at Bible Club today!” and “This was the best week ever!” I totally feel the same way. Jesus was SO glorified this week, and we feel so blessed to have been a part of it. He did some amazing things, and I think FBC Wheeler would totally agree.
- Simone & Kaden