Christian Momma

Here I sit, it’s almost 12 am!  What am I still doing up?  That’s a really good question…but I’m not real sure what the answer is.  I am tired, I should be in bed, but the quietness of the night is so peaceful.  I get so much done in that time.

I have been working on getting my binder together, I have one specifically for out home and another (planner) that I take with me wherever I go.  The planner is all up to date, the other binder, however, has been MIA since we moved…until tonight!  Good thing we found it, school starts on Wednesday and I need to have a central place to put all of the boys’ school stuff they get…the handbook, how to contact each teacher, etc.  It’s nice to have it all in one place so I can find it.

As I was looking through this binder tonight, I realized I had created this binder last year in hopes of taking full advantage of all the sections in the binder…but I didn’t because some of them are specifically for owning a home…which now we do, so I can use it!  YEAH ME!

Anyway…that’s what’s keeping me up late tonight…working on that.  There’s no way I could work on it when all 4 boys are running around!

Another year has come and gone with VBS.  At the VBS Finale’ on Friday night, we had a total of 175 children and adults.

After our characters went through the closing ceremony, they handed out prizes for those children who brought a friend….we had so many prizes donated that every child who got their name into the drawing got something!

After the closing, they showed a video slide of all the photos taken at VBS.  It was great seeing all the things that have happened.  Once that was over, everyone filed out to get some ice cream before heading home!

After thinking over VBS, I think my favorite part of the whole program is when the children offered prayers.  Our music leader would ask for a volunteer child to come forward to pray for the whole group into a microphone.  The amount of children raising their hand was so neat to see.  These children were anxious about being the one chosen to come forward.  Yes, they were “fed” the prayer from the music leader, but the point of the whole thing is getting those children used to praying in front of a group of people and being comfortable.  It was just so touching to see them pray!

Today, I have sorted and put away items for this year’s VBS.  Now onto the next task of finding a church willing to purchase/switch VBS programs so we have more room in our storage.  Our set was AWESOME, our decorating committee went above and beyond what Standard told us!

I’m currently compiling my list of things that worked and didn’t work and those who have said they wanted to help out next year.  If God leads me to run VBS again, I will have a head start, however, if it is someone else God wants to lead it, then they would have the head start!!

Day 4 has come and gone.  We ended up with 82 children last night!

You should have seen how crazy it was when 2 of our characters got slimed!  The kids went wild!!!

Finale’ is tonight…if you live around the Northern Cincinnati area, you ought to come check it out!  www.hittheriver.com If you come, let me know, I’ll be the one running around with the clipboard!!

Day 3 has come and gone.  We ended up with 82 children last night!  Things seem to be going a bit smoother, but that’s probably because the Registration table hasn’t had many at it.

The children are having a blast, and you could see last night that they were more comfortable with their crew leaders than the night before.

Day 4 is tonight…if you live around the Northern Cincinnati area, you ought to come check it out!  www.hittheriver.com If you come, let me know, I’ll be the one running around with the clipboard!!

Day 2 has come and gone.  We ended up with 84 children last night!  That’s great!!

The children are having a blast, and you could see last night that they were more comfortable with their crew leaders than the night before.

Day 3 is tonight…if you live around the Northern Cincinnati area, you ought to come check it out!  www.hittheriver.com If you come, let me know, I’ll be the one running around with the clipboard!!

Last night our church ran our first night of VBS.  We are doing Standard Publishing’s Studio Go!

It was crazy at the beginning…but, it went very well.  We had 79 children show up for our 1st day!  Last year at our biggest day we only hit 88 children (by day 4)…I suspect this year will be a lot bigger!!

This year, my job was again to direct VBS, but I have help…I have a co-director and an Elder and his wife to help run it.  Also, we have chosen a good group of Characters to do the opening and closing along with a lot of other wonderful volunteers to run each station!  VBS just doesn’t run without the wonderful volunteers!!

Day 2 is tonight…if you live around the Northern Cincinnati area, you ought to come check it out!  www.hittheriver.com If you come, let me know, I’ll be the one running around with the clipboard!!