Week 7 - The Brook Church, Faith Baptist Church, Union Grove Baptist, FBC Collierville, Parkway Assembly of God, The Gathering Place, Barfield Baptist Church & Center Point Church

Rosamond

It was such a treat to have The Brook Church in town this week! No amount of rain could hold them back! The Brook was always excited to go out and pick kids up for Bible Club! At the beginning of every day, our kids had the opportunity to dance and sing at puppet shows put on by the team. It was sweet to see the kids want to love on the puppets and be their friends! The fun didn't stop after the puppet shows, however. The Brook had awesome crafts planned for the Rosamond kids this week. They made bejeweled crowns, colorful bracelets, and creative canvases to hang up in their houses! So many sweet relationships were formed between the kids and the team this week, and several kids asked deep questions of the Bible story teachers about Christ and their need for him. Games was always a blast, especially playing bucket ball! It was such a unique and fun game that kept all the kid's involved and having fun! We are so thankful to have had The Brook Church hanging out with us at Rosamond this week. We look forward to having you all back in town next summer!
- Brianna & Antone

Guernsey

Week 7 was popping at G-Street with Faith Baptist Church! They were full of energy and ready to head out and get lots of kiddos for Bible Club! Faith Baptist brought us a high of 61 kids this week! They were pumped to meet all of the kids and share Jesus with each of them! The team acted-out the Bible stories with the kids and gave them props to use. The kids were eager to help act out and learn the stories! For songs, the team brought a guitar, and the kids loved getting to play the guitar and sing the songs! In crafts, the kids made necklaces, bracelets, and cute crosses! Everyone was super excited to show off their crafts to their families and friends! In games this week the boys played soccer, and they loved showing off their skills! The kids played against the team members and loved when they would score on them! We are so thankful for Faith Baptist Church and their willingness to serve! We can’t wait to see what God has in store for the rest of the summer! 
-Katie P. & Gracie

Whittier

There sure wasn’t a party like the Whitvegas party we had all this week! The Brook Church came super prepared to love on some kids and even brought a full-on puppet show for songs! It was an out of the ordinary, fun surprise for our kids! They really enjoyed dancing and singing to all the fun music while watching the fun puppets. Games was always rockin’ with Bucketball and Tic-Tac-Toe relays, and Mr. Bear. The crafts were also amazing and practical this week with a tye-dye canvas, water bottle, and flip flops that the kids got to decorate and make their own. Sadly we couldn’t do bible club on Monday due to bad storms and we had to switch bible club and afternoon projects on Tuesday but that didn’t phase the Brook. Despite these setbacks, the team was super flexible and showed Christ’s love so well. With a constant increase in kids each day, we finished off the week on Friday with 43! One of our bible club kids has been asking many questions about what it’s like to be a Christian so please pray for her to keep coming back to Bible club, for understanding, the right words to say, and ultimately for her to start a relationship with Jesus. Thank you so much The Brook Church for being a stepping stone in her life and loving the kids at Whittier and Rosamond so well!
- Claire & Kristin

National

Union Grove Baptist, you served so well this week! Union Grove made the most of every single moment! Our kiddos learned about cooperation, friendship, and God’s promises in Bible story through fun snacks and intentional conversations. A favorite craft for the week was the fruit loop necklaces that helped teach the kids about friendship and doubled as a take-home snack. Everyone had so much fun in songs this week! Union Grove introduced us to some new songs and the older girls continued perfecting the Cotton Eyed Joe while our 6-8-year-olds started learning the Git Up. Kickball, double dutch, and soccer were some favorite games played this week. Union Grove did such a great job of canvassing this week with a high of 48 kids on Friday! So many kids were loved well this week! We loved seeing new faces at Bible Club this week, too! Union Grove, we loved watching you walk kids home after club and talk to them about Jesus. We shared your joy in each new kid coming to club this week and admired your enthusiasm in getting “one more kid”! We cannot thank you enough!
- Morgan & Kara

Johnson

Rain, rain, go away, come again another day! GP +Y did an amazing job working around the rain this week! Due to thunderstorms, we didn’t get to go to Bible club until Tuesday afternoon where we had 29 kids! We got to see a lot of new faces and the team walked extra on their routes to find more kids. They taught our Johnson kids the first four of the ten commandments and reinforced the story by asking questions and giving prizes for the answers. Our older girls made a competition of how many questions they could answer correctly in a row. The Gathering Place also helped the kids make fridge magnets with Bible verses on them and scratch off tablets with the Ten Commandments on them. The kids had a blast making necklaces with a cross on them and showing them. On Thursday the kids got wrapped up with toilet paper in games and had to break free, they never had a dull moment! Songs station was by far the loudest with yelling competitions and a big speaker playing “Old Town Road”, “The Git Up” and many more fun dancing songs. The kids learned the dance/song “All Across the Nation” and had a blast showing off their dancing skills! We want to thank our part of the Gathering Place for their awesome energy and eagerness to love our kids! 
-Jordan & Andrea

Que Que

It was a great week at club Que Que with FBC Collierville! We had our week high of 41 kiddos on Thursday. At the beginning of club, the kids started all together at songs where they learned new songs and dances. The kids loved the songs and were singing the lyrics and doing the motions during free play come Friday! They learned about Jonah and the Whale, Isaac & Abraham, and Daniel and the Lions Den. At games station, the younger group enjoyed playing duck-duck-goose and nine corners, and the older groups loved playing nine square! Crafts were a big hit this week, the kids made keychains, decorated prayer boxes, door signs, and a Jesus fish with colored sand. During Bible Renforcement the kids got the chance to test their knowledge with some trivia questions about the Bible stories they heard. Thank you, FBC Collierville, for loving our kids so well. We are looking forward to seeing you again next summer! 
-Michelle, Jess & Kaden

Pope

P-O-P-E! If you wanna get to Heaven, we know the key! Parkway Assembly of God was at Pope Bible Club this week, and we had an awesome time with the Avengers-themed bible club. The main idea of the week was that Jesus is our superhero. In crafts, our kids made superhero masks, which they loved wearing to each station at Bible Club. Our kids also made superhero bracelets and colored superhero gloves that they were able to take them home with them. In Bible story, our kids learned about different heroes in the Bible like David and Moses. On Friday, they learned about the ultimate hero, Jesus, and how he died to save us. In songs, we sang and danced to songs like Church Clap and Jesus is My Superhero. In games, we played Sharks and Minnows and had relay races. Our older kids got to play a relay race where they had to balance ping pong balls on a spoon and walk around a tree without dropping the ball. Parkway brought us 39 kids on Thursday, which was the high for the week. We are so thankful for you, Parkway Assembly of God, and all of the kids you brought to us this week!
- Abbey & Tanisha

Jackson

The Gathering Place team absolutely rocked week 7 at Jackson. Although the rain and storms gave us a weird start to the week, this team was very flexible and loved the kids with their whole hearts. Nothing could stop them from having one of the best weeks ever at Jackson! The kids learned the Ten Commandments and different life lessons to live by in Bible story all week. Almost every kid could recite and explain each lesson from the week by Friday! The songs station was one that was a joy to watch all week long. Every one of the kids participated in the crazy freestyle and line dance parties. Games was also a huge hit for each of the groups. All of our kids loved the balloon relays, pool noodle relays, and wrapping up team members in different toilet paper characters. I loved how excited the kids were to be fully hands-on and allowing me to judge their awesome creations. However, Mr. Bear and duck duck goose were not games forgotten this week. Crafts completely knocked it out of the park this week. The kids were so engaged with all of the crafts they made. They were so proud of their coloring, scratch-off Ten Commandments, yarn hearts, OBEY papers, and bead necklaces. The Gathering Place team was a group that Jackson will never forget. You are so special to us, TGP, and we hope to see you back year after year.
- Abby

Kendrick

Kendrick! What? Kendrick! What a great week it was at Bible Club Kendrick! Thank you so much to Barfield Baptist Church for all the hard work you put into this week! Thank you for working so hard to let all the kids know we were back out having Bible Club and being so flexible as we worked around stormy days. We began the week by reconnecting with 18 kids and finished the week with a summer high of 37 kids. It was fun seeing a lot of new faces that we will hopefully see again next summer! The kids at club had so much fun learning all about the first five commandments at Bible story. Over at crafts, the kids were able to make unique crafts that connected to the lesson. From prayer journals and foam pictures for family photos to handheld mirrors to remind the kids to keep their eyes on the one and only God, it was a blast! The fun continued over at songs where the kids loved running, jumping, and doing tricks over the pool noodles to the beat of the music. Games was also a hit with endless rounds of freeze tag and Mr. Bear. Overall, it was a wonderful week at Kendrick! It was so great to be able to see how the Lord is working in the lives of our kids as the summer goes on through Bible Club and Activity Clubs. Thank you again, Barfield Baptist, for loving the Kendrick kids so well and for allowing us to get back out there for another week! Thank you for spending so much energy and passion. The kids fed into your love and were so excited to get to come back day after day. 
- Maci

Baltic

Bible Club Baltic was so blessed to have Center Point Church in this week! It was a wild week from the very beginning with all the rain, but that only made this team stronger! They were energetic, flexible, and most of all determined to love on the kids at Baltic. Something I really noticed this week was how intentional the Center Point team was with our kids. The team was always more than ready to start gospel conversations! Center Point loved the kids so well, and you could tell the kids loved them right back! People are drawn to the light of Jesus in us, and it was awesome to see the love of Christ shine throughout this week. This week was full of giggles, hugs and gospel conversations. God worked on the kids’ hearts and our hearts as well.  On Friday, we meditated on the scripture in Isaiah that says, “if you extend your soul to the afflicted and satisfy the needs of the hungry...then your light shall dawn in the darkness and it shall be bright as the noonday.” Center Point did just that. They filled up on Jesus and squeezed everything out for the kiddos this week. Not only did they seek to meet their needs spiritually but physically. At our final dismissal, they handed out bags of snacks and little sweet things. Center Point, we loved serving alongside you this week! Thank you for loving Jesus and loving our kids!
- Simone

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