Parks Family Fun: 8/12/12

We successfully pulled off another year of Newlife’s Kids Camp. This year we traveled all the way to the artic freeze and spent a week ice fishing in caves and gutting giant fish all while helping a brother help his brother get over some major jealousy issues and learn to love and trust God! Oh and hunt for the abominable snowman!!! :)

I was a group leader for our little penguines this year (preschoolers). That was a fun and interesting task. I don’t know how daycares do it…I had 9-10 preschoolers and that was so many I felt like. :) In the end it was great…you learn to love them all for their little minds and hearts. Plus, I could be as goofy as I wanted and they loved it! Ayden was able to participate in camp this year in the Kindergarten group and from what I know from her leaders she was the highlight of the group. Apparently everyone loved her and she was always making everyone laugh. Blake moved on up and was in the 2ng grade group this year, he was a little disappointed at first because Gwen was not going to be his leader again this year. Blake and Gwen (a high school leader) really hit it off last year and have been together since then. Gwen is leaving for college soon and that too make Blake a little sad. She has been a great influence on Blake. She even felt bad saying it but she considers Blake is be her favorite. Needless to say he quickly snapped out of his sadness and started having a blast at camp!

Each day we got to go to Story time and we would learn more about our “tip of the ice berge” word of the day! The kids loved following the story of how God has CHOSEN Josheph for great things, Josheph then went through TROUBLE but had to continue to have HOPE in Gods LOVE for him and know that his plans made way for his FUTURE. Our story tellers did an amazing job reenacting the story with their lives in the ice caves. They had some great and funny things happen all week like:

being CHOSEN to Receiving a great vest or Superman underwear!