On this rock...

This past week brought me to Silver City. We started out with five kids, and throughout the week we gained two teenage helpers and a couple other friends for a total of nine different Navigators at our G-Force, plus four other helpers and two puppy dogs. The small turnout was perplexing to the church volunteers. There is a pretty good-sized youth group, so we need to get more creative next year and plan some activities for an older crowd instead of our normal VBS.

But of course, it's never about numbers anyway. We had a wonderful bunch of kids who LOVED the music- I think we went through ALL the songs on the CD, when I normally just use three or four. At prayer time one day, a boy requested we sing "that prayer song" that we had done the day before- "Spirit of God, empower me. Give me the strength to have faith and believe."

We wound up having some good conversations with our small group as well- including how the Bible
came into existence. The kids were understanding the stories well enough to put them in their own words- when asked what God asked Moses to do, one boy replied, "Go to the pyramids and unslave the people." I like it.

I loved this because the student added God being proud of Jesus healing Bartimaeus.

 Pastor Mike added to our church bank crafts. He told us about how Jesus told Peter that on this rock (Peter) he would build his church. He gave each child a rock to put inside their church bank to remember that Jesus builds his church on us too. Of course all this talk of building churches on rocks led to a goofy search around Silver City UMC's basement looking for the rock.... we pointed the kids to the mirror. :)



Our science activity reminded us that little things do make a big difference. As I added the food
coloring to the milk, they noticed the colors already spread and impacted each other a little. The impact was magnified ten fold by adding the dish soap- just like how God sends us out into the world to shake things up.