Hey, We're Still Alive Up Here

Sorry for the long absence from my blog...we were busy at church all last week with a Vacation Bible Time program for all the kids in our area. Tiff and I were kind of heading up the planning and running of it all so there were lots of details to take care of. What a blessing the whole week was! We had a total of 25 kids attend (pretty much tripling our regular attendance) and we had a great time teaching them lessons from the Bible about The Ultimate Race of life. The theme tied in great with our decorating theme of car racing. It was wonderful to see the church people come together and work together as a real "body" and get excited about ministry. Lord willing, we will be seeing the fruit of the labor of the gospel for years to come.

So, here are some photos chronicling our week:

This banner was made by one of the ladies in our church...she did it with Sharpies, believe it or not! It's great to have people with special talents in different areas to help out. We came up with a skit to do every night to reinforce and teach the lessons from the Bible in a somewhat real life setting - in this case, Race Week for the not-so-famous Earnlittle family - of course we had a lot of fun doing it too and made the kids laugh a lot.
This is the cast of our nightly skit...Sarah as "Dela May", Rob as "Rusty", Dallas as "Dale", Johnny as "Slick" (he's a reporter, not part of the family) and Alex as "Dusty".
Here are a bunch of the kids and helpers with the race track our pastor built for the week.
Tiff and Meg smile for the camera - Meg loved all the people. =)
Pastor Riley with Johnny
some of the wooden cars (the kids got to make them in craft time for racing on the track) in the starting gate.
Me leading rally time with the kids
here's the track - it's 40' long!