First, our church had a youth night every Tuesday night in October. We have one school age youth coming to our church and she brought 5 with her the first night. 4 of them came back the next week along with 5 others!
On the 3rd week, there were 9, I believe, but we had 2 new ones. This was the first night Rob opened the altar for the kids to come and pray. He'd been talking about what weighs us down in life, spiritually, emotionally, and physically, and how it effects us. This night was about relationships and he focused on our relationship with Christ. The kids responded well. They were all in the altar, crying and pouring their hearts out to God. It was awesome! Once service was dismissed, the kids didn't' leave. They stayed, cried on one another and gave lots of hugs, so Rob talked a bit more. It was great.
The fourth night, we had a total of 17 kids there!!! Wow!!! Now, from our Oct. youth nights we have had about 6 young people coming to church for the past two weeks. Sherry and Sheyanne have worked hard at inviting and picking up the kids. Thanks Sherry for your hard work for the Lord!!! Someday, you will be rewarded with a great Heavenly reward!
The past week, I've been hard at work on a project we helped out with on Halloween night. The church we rent from decorates each classroom/office up as a different Candyland game board room such as Taffy Town and Gumball Glazier and Lollipop ?. It was really neat. I have a lot of pictures up on facebook. It's easier to upload pics there. Our room turned out really neat and we had a lot of fun decorating and passing out candy in a non scary place that was more interesting than my home could ever be. We had an opportunity to pass out a TON of church cards as nearly 1,000 people passed by. Amazing!
So, that pretty much sums up October. We are now getting ready to head for Family Camp this weekend and I'm looking forward to great fellowship and wonderful time in the Lord.
Enjoy a few pics.
Our gumball glacier (glazier is it's spelled in candyland)
It's decorated with gumballs! We also had a partial igloo made out of milk jugs, and our floor was cover with "snow" and "water with chunks of ice." Clouds hung from a blue ceiling. It was nice.
Our scripture and gumball cross.
The pastors wife, Regina and a youth from their church, Chad.
Some really nice people.
And I'm having issues with typing something under the last pic so....
My girls with one of the HUGE inflatables outside. The other was a large slide.
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So glad you are doing okay! The pictures of the girls are so cute :)
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