Rosamond
FBC Desoto served alongside us at Bible Club Rosamond this week! The team ran a spy-themed Bible Club and the kids were super excited about it. At crafts, the kids made walkie-talkies from juice boxes, Poloroid ID badges, and toilet paper roll binoculars. All of the kids were so excited to show off their Polaroid pictures and couldn't believe that they could actually see through their binoculars! Each day at Bible story the kids learned a new chant to help them remember the most important parts of the stories. It was sweet to hear the kids chanting the good news of Jesus across Bible Club! Games station was also a blast this week from soccer and relay races to 9-square! Desoto brought snacks for the kids to take home every day and the kids were so excited about it! We are so thankful to have had FBC Desoto in town to run Bible Club Rosamond this week. Thank you for all of your hard work and energy.
- Brianna & Antone
Guernsey
Wamego UMC was hanging out on G-street this week! The team jumped off the bus and was ready to meet lots of kids! They went out and brought us back a summer high of 73 kiddos! The team had an interactive Bible story each day followed by a game to help them remember the message of the story. At crafts, each child got to make their very own coloring book! The kids were able to color a new picture every day that went along with the Bible story. Games was a blast all week long! The team led the kids in challenging relays, then our kids had to do them again blindfolded! The boys also played ultimate frisbee and had the best time. Songs was a rocking time this week as well. Wamego brought instruments for our kids to play along to the music! The team always had our kids up and dancing! Thank you, Wamego UMC, for a great week! We can’t wait to see what God has in store for next week!
- Katie P. & Gracie
Whittier
A huge shoutout to FBC Desoto for serving at Whittier for week 8! Our kids had soo much fun with Desoto and all their exciting activities. We had a summer high of 63 kids on Friday and we couldn’t be happier to love so many! FBC Desoto really connected with each child and loved them so well making them want to keep coming back every day. Every craft this week fit into the spy theme. Our kids made binoculars, juice box walkie talkies, an ID badge with a polaroid picture on it, a decoder, and a bookmark. The kids loved all the creativity and originality of these cool crafts! In games, they mastered a challenging obstacle course, ultimate trash can, the “cone game” and relays! In songs, they learned a Gospel chant, danced their little hearts out, played hot potato and learned a new game called “Protect the President.” The Bible story was interactive with giant posters and actions. The team also brought yummy snacks to go home with the kids every day which was definitely a hit. Thank you FBC Desoto for allowing another fantastic week of Bible Club at Whittier as well as for serving and loving Bible club babies there so well!
- Claire & Kristin
National
First United Methodist Church Marble Falls served well with us this week. National ran a high of 39 kiddos this week. Week 8 was so much fun! Our kids adored Bible story. Marble Falls brought an entire puppet stage to share valuable scriptural truths! We learned all about Jesus this week, from His birth to His time at the temple to Him teaching at Mary and Martha’s house. The puppets were engaging and the kids loved watching the show. Over at crafts, we built, colored and decorated! A couple favorite crafts of the week were decorating fun wells and designing and building lanterns that would glow at night! Our kids were so excited to take their crafts home, show them to parents, and tell them all about Bible Club this week! Everyone loved playing capture the flag, ultimate frisbee, ran relay races, and competing in kickball at game's station. In songs, the kids got to play freeze dance and Uno. Thank you, Marble Falls, for loving on our kids this week!
- Kara & Morgan
Johnson
Farewell Johnson! Believers Southern Baptist was in town this week, and we are so thankful to them for helping us close out the summer! It’s been an amazing summer at Bible Club Johnson. We have had so many amazing teams in and watched so many kids grow in their relationships with Christ and others. The kids, teams, and staff made so many amazing memories. Thanks to Believers Southern Baptist we got to spend quality time with our kids before saying goodbye until next summer! God blessed us with beautiful weather and sunshine all week long! Believers Southern Baptist finished the summer off well, with a high of 46 kids on Tuesday! The team taught our kids about Jesus walking on water and several of the other miracles that He performed. Our older kids asked a lot of questions and wanted to write their memory verses down so they could take them home to memorize! They also made crafts related to this weeks theme “In the Wild”. The older kids made little animals and glued googly eyes on them, and the little kids made noisemakers that looked like elephants. We all had a great time this week! Thank you, Believers Southern Baptist, for loving our kids so well this week!
- Jordan & Andrea
Que Que
Heritage UMC rocked the earth at Que Que this week with a high of 45 kids on Thursday! Though they may have brought a small team that sure didn’t stop them from bringing a lot of love. Our kids celebrated their last week of Bible club with an assortment of games including jump rope, bean bag toss, and races. They continued the fun by making colorful crafts that they could take home and share with their parents. Songs station was always popping with dance battles and hot potato. Our boys probably had the most fun over at games this week. It was such a bittersweet week as team members and staff loved on the kids for the last time this summer. Friday consisted of many tears, hugs and I love you’s. During dismissal, our kids kept running up to us to say goodbye. Just as we were about to pull away, one of our 7-year-old boys yelled from his balcony, “Hey, I love you guys!” and all of our hearts melted. Every kid at Que Que gave us so many reasons to love them and even though our time with them is up we will never stop loving and praying for them. Thank you again, Heritage UMC, for loving our kids so well and helping us make our last week the best week! Until next summer, Que Que.
- Michelle, Jess, Tucker & Simone
Pope
How is week 8 already over? First Baptist Church Groveland was at Pope for our last week, and we had such a good time at Bible Club! Our kids, especially our older girls, had a blast at songs station all week dancing to The Git Up and The Cha Cha Slide. At some points, all of our stations were doing the same dance and we had a dance-off across bible club! Our older boys loved the games station where they ran relay races and had a basketball tournament. Our youngest kids also loved games where they played with a parachute and tried to keep balls from falling off of the parachute. Our crafts station made salvation bracelets, door hangers, blindfolds, and a caterpillar that turned into a butterfly. All of the crafts tied into the Bible story and helped our kids remember how unique they were. In Bible story, our kids learned about Jesus’ life and about how he died on the cross to save us. A lot of our older boys became very serious about who Jesus was and what he did for us. FBC Groveland brought us a week high of 38 kids on Friday. A lot of team members were able to reunite with familiar faces throughout the week and our kids were so happy about it! Groveland, thank you for planning so many fun things for Pope bible club and loving our kids so well this week. We’ve had such a good time with all of our kids and we cannot wait to see what God does at Pope Bible Club next summer!
-Abbey and Tanisha
Kendrick
What a great week it was at Kendrick. Thank you so much to Green Trails UMC for all the love and energy that you poured into the kids this week. We all thought that last week was the closing week at Kendrick, so it was a blessing to be able to pour a full additional week into the kid as well as the community. One of the sweetest moments of the week was two kids running up to bible club on Monday so excited saying, "You're back! You're back! You said last week was the final week, but you're back!" It was amazing to see the kids so excited to have another team and another week of games, songs, crafts, and stories. Bible story was great with week, and the kids were able to learn about the birth, life, and ministry of Jesus. The kids had so much fun at crafts were they were able to make Christmas ornaments, necklaces and headbands! Songs rocked it bringing some new songs for the kids to learn like the English version of "Zacchaeus was a wee little man" and the penguin dance! The fun continued at games where the kids had blast playing soccer, Mr. Bear, and tag! The missionaries from Green Trails did a great job creating relationships with the Kendrick kids by showing them what God's love looks like. It was so sweet to see how some kids who did not say one word on Monday, were laughing, singing, dancing, and answering every question at bible story by the end of the week. It shows that by giving your all the Christ, he can use things as simple as dancing like a penguin to open a child's eye to who Jesus is. Thank you so much to Green Trails for allowing us to see the Kendrick kids one more great week so full of love and for allowing the kids to see that Jesus was truly at the center of everything from bible story to games. Thank you for loving our kids so well and giving it your all. We are so excited to see how Jesus continues to work in the lives of the kids and community around Kendrick bible club.
- Kaden & Maci
Hill
My lighthouse, my lighthouse, shining in the darkness, I will follow You! Summer 2019 is coming to a close for Street Reach STL, and we could not ask for a better closing week here at Bible Club Hill. Big thanks to Aldan Union for their willingness to come and serve with us in St. Louis this week. The kids' favorite songs were beach party and, obviously, my lighthouse. They heard Bible stories about how Jesus healed the lepers, His birth, and why He died for us. One of our kids even accepted Jesus as his Savior this week! Hallelujah! Aldan Union helped the kids make Christmas ornaments, some hearts that showed how Jesus heals, fun bracelets, and crowns to show that Jesus is the true King. The kids loved ultimate football (the team's version of ultimate frisbee), Mr. Bear, sharks and minnows, and how many bubbles can we pop. Aldan Union, we could not have asked for a better closing week for Street Reach St. Louis 2019. Thank you once again for a great week!
- The Lou Crew
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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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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
Rosamond
Stonebridge Church joined us at Rosamond this week, and it was an absolute blast! The team came prepared to pour their hearts and souls into Bible Club, and that is exactly what they did! The team was so patient and gracious with our kids. Stonebridge was intentional about building lasting relationships with the kids at Bible Club, and went out of their way to make everyone at Rosamond feel welcome and special! It was so sweet to see the team reconnect with kids from last summer and get to know the kids they hadn't met before. Bible Story was always creative and interactive, and the kids loved seeing the different picture Bibles the team used! Crafts station was a hit every day, but the kids especially enjoyed getting to frame and decorate Polaroid images of themselves! From parachutes and kickball to four corners, both games stations were full of fun and energy all week long! We are so thankful to Stonebridge Church for putting so much effort and energy into loving on and having fun with our kids at Rosamond this week! It was truly a blessing to serve alongside you, Stonebridge.
- Brianna & Jess
Guernsey
Cross City Church made their first trip to Street Reach this week, and loved hanging out over on G-street! They loved the kids well, and we had a blast! The team brought high energy and lots of fun, which resulted in a high of 57 kids for the week! Our older boys loved getting competitive over in games station where they played lots of sharks and minnows and soccer. One day in crafts, the kids made sunflowers and got to write things they were thankful for on each one of the pedals. When I asked the kids what they wrote on the pedals multiple kids shouted “bible club” and then held their crafts up so proudly. It was so sweet to see how much our kids love and appreciate everything the teams do for them at Bible club! Multiple kids at Bible Club got to sit down with team members one on one to learn more about Christ’s love for them. It was amazing to see so many kids show interest in following Christ! Thank you so much for serving so well at G-Street, Cross City. We can’t wait to have you back!
- Katie & Antone
Whittier
Once again, people from Oklahoma have treated us so well over at Whitvegas!! Huge shout out to First Presbyterian Church of Exodus for showing the love of Christ to our kids and community this week. We had over 50 kids one day this week, and the kids kept coming back for more fun as the week went on. The highlight of crafts this week was the cross necklace the kids made using their beads of choice. Songs station involved learning new songs, and playing Hot Potato and Down By the Bank, all of which were huge hits! Games were all sorts of fun, including the classics like Mr. Bear, relays, & Red Light Green Light! One of the sweetest things about Bible story this week was witnessing the kids work on memorizing the same verse every day, They began to catch on more and more as each day went by: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” - Mark 12:30-31. Exodus, you not only taught the kids what these verses said and mean, but you were also awesome examples of how to live it out as well. Thank you so much for your investment in the lives of our kids this week. We appreciate y’all so much!
- Claire & Kristin
National
National was rockin’ this week! St. Paul’s United Church of Christ, thank you so much for serving with us this week. You loved our kids and our community so well! We ran a high of 55 precious kiddos this week. They learned about God’s love for them at Bible story through some incredible skits! The older boys and girls loved participating in the Bible story and by the time we got to crafts they could recite the whole story from memory. Speaking of crafts, the team planned the perfect crafts that all ages of our kids loved. The games and crafts stations loved so well through playing and listening to music. St. Paul’s exhibited Christ’s love in all they did; from carrying children the whole walking route to participating in the hot soccer games with the older boys, St. Paul’s was a great picture of Jesus. Bible story made the Bible truly come alive this week for our kiddos. Several kids each day got to participate as actors in the telling of the story. The parable of the prodigal son and Zacchaeus were two of the kids' favorites. St. Paul’s, Christ’s love was evident in all you said and did this week. Thank you so much.
- Morgan, Kara & Simone
Johnson
What a week at Johnson! Thank you, Alto Reformed Church, for coming all the way from Wisconsin to love on our kids! The kids learned all about creation and got to color crafts that went along with the story. The kids loved making horns with noisemakers inside and especially enjoyed using them in songs station as Samm played the guitar. On Thursday, the crafts team helped the kids make a lion mask. The kids loved to pretend to be lions and happily showed us their best roars! They loved learning a new song about how God created the whole world and said it was good. We also learned a lot of new games this week such as “lions and guards” and “God Says” (an alternate version of Simon Says). The kids also learned about Joshua and the Battle of Jericho. They had so much fun marching around the “tree of Jericho”. God was good to us this week and held off the rain, for the most part anyway. We also passed up last week’s summer high with thirty-five kids, on Thursday! Even though it was hot, the team fought through it and loved our kids well. It was a great week and we look forward to seeing everything God is going to do the rest of the summer.
- Jordan & Andrea
Que Que
Top of the morning to ya, lads! Street Reach week 3 was a BLAST over at club Que Que - with an average of 38 kids each day coming to learn about Christ's greatest commandments: the golden rule, forgive others, give thanks to God and of course, love the Lord your God with all your Heart and with all your Strength and with all your Soul. Shout outs to our missionaries from Good Shepherd UMC for being so involved with the children. From building crosses at crafts to singing and dancing at songs to the super bowl cheer squad at games, these missionaries poured out their attention and affections on to these kids - two of their most desperate needs. One of my favorite special moments of the week was when 4 year old Caiden was about to throw a stick. But suddenly the other 4-year-old Caden ran up and grabbed the stick shouting, "No! You gonna get time out!" He took the stick and turned around and kindly handed it to me. Hahaha! What a hero! And we all made sure he knows what a great decision he had made to look out for his friend. Please pray for these kids as they continue to grow. And pray that God will continue to send flexible, loving missionaries like these. So long as He does, then this is going to continue to be one incredible summer!
- Kaden, Michelle, Maci & Abby
Pope
P – O – P – E! That is where you wanna be! Cross City Church was out at Pope Bible Club this week and what a fun week it was. Our older boys had a lot of fun playing in the games station this week where they played Sharks and Minos and a couple games of soccer. Our youngest kids had tons of fun using a blow-up beach ball to learn how to play kickball. In Bible story, our older kids loved being able to talk about all the things that they are thankful for in their lives. Our older girls began asking lots of questions about who God is and how He loves us in bible story at the end of the week. Our youngest kids loved the songs station where they sang and danced to a lot of different worship songs and Baby Shark. All of our kids loved crafts this week where they made salvation bracelets on Thursday. Each of our kiddos had a ton of fun making the bracelets and were able to tell us what each color meant on the bracelet. On Friday, our middle-aged group of kids had the most fun decorating their own coin banks that were made out of Pringles cans. Cross City Church, we are so thankful for you and how well you loved our community this week!
-Tanisha, Abbey & Xavier
Rosamond
What a week! We are so thankful to The Mill Church for closing out the summer at Rosamond! We had a high this week of 52 kids, and were still meeting new kids on Friday! It was awesome to have the chance to love on so many old and new kiddos our last week! Bible Story was super interactive, and the kids seriously enjoyed acting out stories like Daniel and the Lions Den every day. Song's station never stopped moving or dancing. Between dance battles and playing the floor is lava, it was lit. Our kids loved craft's station this week, especially making slime and lion masks. It was really funny to look around and see a lot of little lions roaming Bible Club. Last but not least, the game's station was hoppin'! The Mill had age-appropriate games planned for each group, which kept everything fun and exciting. We cannot thank The Mill enough for allowing us one fun, last week with our Rosamond kids! Please continue to pray for the kids as summer ends and school begins! Grace & peace.
- Brianna & Nicole
Guernsey
FBC Hamburg was hangin’ out at G-Street for our final week of Bible Club! Hamburg brought us our summer high of 82 kids! Our middle-aged kids loved making stuffed lions out of cloth and beans. After they made their craft, the kids got to draw faces on their lions and act out being lions by roaring! Guernsey saw a ton of older girls this week, and they loved making their own necklaces and bracelets out of pipe cleaners and beads. It was so sweet to see our older girls make their own crafts and then give them out to their friends. Our older boys loved getting to play kickball and soccer on their last week of Bible Club! At songs station, our youngest kids played a game where they had to jump into a hula hoop when the music stopped, and they absolutely loved it! We cannot thank FBC Hamburg enough for such a fun last week at Bible Club. Please keep the Guernsey Bible Club families in your prayers during the school year! What a great summer it was at G-Street! See y'all next summer!
- Abbey & Katie
Whittier
That's a wrap on the Whitvegas party of 2018! We cannot believe that week 8 has already come and gone. This last week was one to remember. Thank you, Westoak Woods Baptist Church, for spending this bittersweet last week with us. Game's station was constantly hopping with sharks & minnows, ring toss, and parachutes. The kids used their brains and brawn in memory verse station by playing games to memorize a different Bible verse every day. In craft's, the kids loved making bracelets, Noah's Ark, and maracas throughout the week. Bible story kept the kids listening by coloring a picture that went with the story for that day. We could not have asked for a better last week of Bible Club for the summer. We are so thankful for every team that came in this summer to make summer 2018 at Whitvegas everything that it was. Thank you for all the prayers as well. It was such a blessing to see God work through Bible club. We can't wait to see what God has planned for next summer at Whitter. Until next year!
- Claire & Special K
Johnson
Thia final week at Johnson was the perfect way to end the summer. Once again we had New Shores in town to close up Bible Club for us. They came in with passion to reconnect and find new kids. All week long kids were jamming over in songs, despite it being so much hotter than Ecuador. Games kept the kids running around and had some of the most intense games of tic-tac-toe ever. In crafts, New Shores even had a cool twist on the salvation bracelet by using sand to share the gospel! Bible story didn’t miss out on the fun either! They acted out David and Goliath with a life-size Goliath (ok, it was really just a tall team member) and the kids loved it. All fun aside, the sweetest moments were the conversations in Bible Story. There were two salvations this week and many more kids who were asking really good questions. You could see God's hands at work through the week. As the school year starts, please keep Johnson and what God is doing there in prayer. We may be done for the summer, but He is nowhere near finished. One last time now… WE ARE, WE ARE, JOHNSON! WOOH! JOHNSON! WOOH!
- Marcus & Kenni
Kendrick
K-E-N-D and a RICK ! It’s KENDRICK! What? KENDRICK! What a week for Kendrick Bible Club thanks to Barfield Baptist Church! Barfield came to love the Kendrick kiddos, in some awesome weather, and to close out the summer. As kids learned the story of Paul and Thomas, they learned about the love of Jesus. Games was full of relays, Mr. Bear, elbow tag, and much more! Crafts was showered with bracelets, bookmarks, and coloring. Songs were full of musical chairs and krazy kazoos. Even cooler than all of that, we were able to welcome home some kids who moved away and are now back. Watching their faces light up as they recognized different people was amazing. I could see the happiness radiate throughout Club. It’s amazing to see kids get excited about seeing special team members every year. Thank you so much, Barfield Baptist, for coming and loving so much on my kids.
- Beef
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Rosamond
Aldan Union Church spent this week with us at Rosamond! The team's sweet spirit was obvious, and the kids had a wonderful time getting to know them. Aldan Union spent the week teaching the Rosamond kids all about Joseph, his dreams, and his coat of many colors. The teeny-tinies were fascinated by the colorful picture books the team used to convey the Bible stories to them. My personal favorite craft that the kids made this week was a "stained glass" coat of many colors. All the kids were stoked to take their masterpieces home and hang them up in their bedroom windows. Everyone had fun in games, from kickball and hula-hoop basketball to four-square in the dirt. Additionally, songs station was always full of interesting surprises, including a chance to play the ukulele. The kids had fun this week, and so did I! Thanks, Aldan Union Church, for your willingness to travel to Memphis and love on our sweet and sassy kids!
- Brianna
Guernsey
Week 7 was so much fun out at Guernsey Bible Club thanks to Mountain Creek Baptist Church! This was the team’s first trip to Street Reach, and it was so awesome hearing about how much the team enjoyed their trip. It was also really cool to see how much they loved on our Bible Club kids. In Bible Story, Mountain Creek taught our kids about Joseph, his brothers, and his coat of many colors. The middle-aged kids loved getting to help the team act out trust by catching one of the leaders in a trust fall. Our kids loved songs station where they learned a new song with motions and sang tons of Bible Club songs. In games, all of our kids played kickball and had so much fun doing so. It was neat to see our kids cheering one another on and giving high fives to each other when they ran to home base. We loved getting a few minutes to play kickball with our older boys and girls! In crafts, the team helped the kids make a game out of a cup and a string with a bead that represented that God forgives us an infinite amount of times. Here is a huge shout out to Mountain Creek for loving our kids so well this week! Please keep Guernsey Bible Club in your prayers as next week is our last week with our kiddos for the summer!
- Abbey & Katie
National
Somehow we have already been through 7 weeks of Bible club. The last 7 weeks have been full of fun games, cool crafts, crazy songs, and lots of Jesus. Townville Baptist Church came to join us for the last week of Bible club at National this summer. The kids had lots of fun as they made some really cool crafts and played ultimate soccer and fun relays at games. Every day we prayed that the Lord would send us as many kids as possible to share his love with during this last week of Bible club, and every day we had old kids, new kids, and kids we hadn't seen since the beginning of the summer! On Friday we had a high of 64 kids! It was an awesome reminder that God is so faithful and really listens to our prayers. The best part of this week is that we had two kids accept Christ into their hearts! I can't wait to see what God continues to do in their lives. I'm not sure how summer is already coming to a close. Some days of Bible club were harder, hotter and crazier than others, but every single day I saw God alive and present and working in the hearts of the kids at National Bible club. I know that even though Bible club is over for the summer God will still be with each of the kids and will use them to be disciples in their homes and on their streets. We feel honored that God would allow us to be a small part of the work He is doing here. All glory to Him. It's been real, National Bible club.
- Morgan & Allie
Jackson
Let’s go Jackson! This week The Gathering Place church came to serve at Jackson, and what a week of love and compassion, high energy, and tons of fun we had! This week in crafts the kids decorated binoculars, made their own prayer journals, and decorated picture frames to put Polaroid snapshots in. It was so fun to see them react to having their picture taken with a polaroid and watching the picture of them appear out of nowhere! Songs station was a party all this week filled with freeze dance and loud singing, and it was so fun to hear the older girls chant “Who runs the world? Girls!” as soon as they ran over to songs. Games station played some seriously cool games this week, like an inchworm relay and the floor is lava. Kids were having so much fun, and we were having fun watching them act so silly! Bible story knocked it out of the park this week; the kids learned all about the story of Joseph and learned how it related to their own lives. From learning how to run from temptation (literally by running in circles from “temptation”) to learning that in each and every situation we can forgive others, the kids learned some great truths. On Friday, 57 precious kiddos came out to Bible club to end the summer with us, and we had a blast! God has been incredibly faithful this summer to pour out His love on our Bible club kids. Please pray that the seeds planted this summer would grow and be fruitful. God is so kind to let us be a part of all of this!
- Holly & Tedder
Johnson
We had an awesome week at Johnson thanks to The Gathering Place Church! The kids had a blast learning about Joseph, his life, relationships, sufferings, and temptations. Each day, the kids learned a different main point from the Bible story which allowed them to remember the lessons easier. There were some awesome crafts throughout the week such as prayer journals, working binoculars, and heart frames for polaroids of each kid. TGP played games like three-legged & hula-hoop races, and jumping over a jump rope ‘river’. The kids were so engaged and loved every second it. We had a summer high of 51 kids come out to hear the gospel and be loved on! In addition to that, we had a salvation! We are happy to announce that Mariah accepted Christ as her Lord and Savior this week! Thank you for the prayers over Johnson Bible Club, and we can’t wait to see what next week has in store!
- Kenni & Kaden
Whittier
We cannot believe week 7 has already passed at Whittier! Calvary Baptist rocked this week. At club this week the kids were told the story of Joseph and the different aspects of how God worked through him. Crafts tied back into the Bible story each day, and the kids absolutely loved making forgiveness bookmarks & salvation caterpillars. Games station deserves a special shoutout for introducing the kids to Ships and Sailors as well as water sponge races, which the kids LOVED. In songs, they danced to Rolex and the classic summer favorites Pizza Man, Little Red Wagon, and Oh A Milkshake. Having a high of 55 kids on Wednesday, each and every child was shown the love of Christ through the team this week. Thank you to Calvary Baptist for pouring into our kids and community. We are so thankful for another full week of sweet smiles & seeing our precious Bible Club kids learning more about the gospel. We are pumped to see what week 8 holds for Whitvegas!
- Special K & Claire
Que Que
As I reflect on this summer and everything it brought, I am thankful. Thankful for teams thankful for community members, thankful for the ministry, and thankful for God’s faithfulness to provide. This past week was the last week of summer for the Que Que partay. To close out the summer, we had the privilege of serving with Third Street Baptist Church. They made some lasting memories with the kiddos this week. They’re kindness and enthusiasm to meet the kids exactly where they were was encouraging. We had a whole station strictly for our 4 and under group where the team would come over and take turns hanging out with them. They played playdough, blocks and colored everything (including the tarp.) Our older kid group enjoyed some pretty competitive kickball and sang praises at the end of each Bible story. On Friday afternoon while walking home we sang “this little light of mine” one more time and as we sang the last chorus little Paityn asked, “what is the little light?” Thrilled to learn it is Jesus, she sang louder! As we approached her doorstep she met her mother explaining to her what the little light was. Paityn has always been a little bundle of energy, but this time I believe she’s going to be a little light to her Pre-K class. Third Street Baptist church brought the love this week. It was a great last week. For everyone who came and ministered to the Que Que kids, thank you!
- Anna & Ashley
Pope
Wow, what a summer! Big thanks to Waycross FUMC for closing out Bible Club Pope this summer! It was an awesome week. The kids had fun and learned a lot going through the stories of Joseph. They got to make awesome crafts like door hangers, necklaces, bracelets, crosses, and picture frames, too! All of the Pope kids were super excited to show off their amazing crafts. The team led the kids in super fun games like Sharks and Minos, Wax Museum, and more. They also got to sing some fun Bible Club songs like Hey Bo Diddley Bop, Bazooka Bubble Gum, and they got to dance to some crazy-fun songs too. We had a great summer at Pope as we were blessed with the opportunity to minister to over 100 kids. Thanks to all who came and loved on our community!
- Carla & Tanisha
Treadwell
Treadwell was an absolute party this week thanks to The Brook church, and the kids loved it! The team brought tents for the children to sit under, huge speakers to blast music from, bubble machines, an abundance of toys, fantastic crafts, and a love for Bible Club. Club looked fun before it even started, and that in combination with the attention poured into the children kept them coming back for more. During an in-depth conversation about God with the older kids, Tank revealed that he believed in the Greek gods as well as Jesus. We spoke to him about how God is the only true God and even says so himself in the scripture using verse John 14:6, and how the Greek gods are lowercase gods and mythology. He then said that he needed to speak with his teacher who taught him about the Greek gods so he could tell her the truth. Additionally, Andricko was responsive to the team talking to him about the gospel on his walk to club and had a two-on-one conversation about what it means to follow Jesus. Many seeds were planted this week at Treadwell and we cannot wait until Spring to plant and grow some more. Please stay in prayer for these kids and their families, and that we will next see them in the Spring season. Please pray that teams will come ready to be the hands and feet of God in this community as they follow Jesus. {Luke 4:16 – 21}
- Rachael
