Trial by Fire

    Monday's over, and what a hard day's night it was! Waking up at the first light of Brooklyn sun, we promptly escorted our little VBS-goers through New York streets--safely, mind you (you can let go the breath you were holding)-- and arrived at First Free Church in record time!

   My group was the rabbit group.  Upon arrival, we waited outside and played around with the kids before everything officially started.

  Gathering everyone in the sanctuary, our band successfully lead them in worship, completely musically coordinated in everyway, clearly speaking to everyone and helping them enjoy worship. God's glory surely shone through the lot of them.

  Hunter, God bless him, rabbit-voiced his way through one song, engaging the kids and making them laugh. Talk about leaving his dignity at the door for the sake of Christ. That voice pretty much made my day, but then I got a peach later, so that was good too.

   Then Cam taught everyone the lesson of how Moses, only with God's help, led the Israelites through the dessert, away from Egypt and across the Red Sea. He explained the miracles of God and his total awesomeness. Like, really, quail, being lead by a cloud, manna from Heaven, and water from a huge rock.

  If you don't think that's awesome then I don't know what to tell you.

  So then we all split into our respective groups-- my group's the purple group-- and reviewed the lesson, learned the Bible verse, then snack time. My favorite time of the day.

   After snack time was random activities time, then we started English class! Spelling words and writing definitions, definitely better than Maths, which comes later. After English was lunch aka OUR BREAK TIME.

  We gathered, ravenously ate to keep up our energy and discussed the problem children in our groups and how good or crazy the lot of those kids were. Best twenty minutes of the day were when we got to relax.

  Then woe is me, Maths was the next task on our list of things to do. I didn't even have to do it, but I felt the pain of numbers on a spiritual level.

  Arts and crafts happened for everyone, but apparently our group didn't get the memo, so we made balloon animals and stuff for pretty much the rest of the day.

 They were dismissed and we walked our group back to Dorcas. Lots of fun there. Well, it's lights out time here, so either Harrison or McCartney will tell you about our time at second free. But from here on in till morning, I'll be out cold. But lemme tell ya one thing, after this week, I'll have toned legs of steel.

~Lennon