Ballet Magnificat

A few of our 1st-6th grade girls went to see Ballet Magnificat at a local church. It was beautiful! Here are a few pictures I took with my phone.

Offerings for our Soldiers

This past summer our VBS kids collected over $2000 in change not only to buy items for our soldiers, but also to see our pastor wrestle a crocodile! It was a great week! The money was used to buy items for all of the injured soldiers in Germany and sent to the hospital over there. All of our G.A.'s and R.A.'s and most of the adults all sent cards in the boxes with prayers, words of encouragement, and special thanks for fighting for our great country!

Just a reminder...

If you haven't reserved a spot for your child at G.I.F.T., please do so by THIS SUNDAY!!

A Summer in Review

We had a big summer this year traveling from Jackson, to the coast, to Schocco Springs, to around town pool parties!! The summer was HOT, HOT, HOT, but OH so much fun!! This school year will be better than ever and I'm so excited to be able to share that with you kiddos and parents! See you Sunday!!

This particular day happened to be Anna Caroline's 7th birthday, so the everyone in the IMAX sang "Happy Birthday" to her!

Glad GLOD

Every morning during "I Can't Wait," the camp staff chose a group leader from one of the churches represented to be the Glad GLOD (group leader of the day). The kiddos had to submit their group leaders name and reasons why they were special to the camp, and the staff chose one of the group leaders. Well... on Thursday, my name was chosen to be the Glad Glod. When I was at FUGE with the FBC youth group, the GLAD GLOD's received a tshirt. As my luck would have it, there wasn't a tshirt anywhere that was being given away... instead I got hot pink glitter hairspray in my hair that I had to wear ALL DAY LONG!! The kids LOVED IT!!

A Little More of Night Life

So... the party continued on Wednesday night and the outfits got CRAZIER!!! How much fun!!

MMM... Pizza!!!!

The only bad part of camp is having to wait in the LLOOONNGG line for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. As I mentioned earlier, there are over 800 people here and the cafeteria can only seat about 250 at a time. The kids needed a little pick-me-up and we ordered pizza on Wednesday night for dinner. They were in HOG HEAVEN!!

I Can't Wait...

"I Can't Wait" is the morning service for Centri-Kid. This service is LOUD and CRAZY and it gets the kids excited for their day of camp. Each morning, they have a news service, sing songs with Jeff Slaughter (the semi-famous popular VBS MOTIONS guy who demonstrates the songs on all of the VBS videos each year), recognize a group leader of the day and have "screaming" contests. Here are just a few pictures from all of the morning services.

The Great Adventure...

Last night Centri-Kid had a night life party and the theme was "The Great Adventure." This is the biggest Centri-Kid camp on record and there are over 1,000 people at Schocco Springs-- all participating in Centri-Kid. So, they divided the camp and half of the churches are supposed to be decked out in blue and the other half in red for the parties. Our church went all out.... from leopard print tights, to rainbow knee socks, big red sunglasses, and glitter hairspray, our church definitely represented in style. We'll participate in another party tonight... here's to hoping that our team pulls through once again and brings home a victory!

Carson definitely represented us well with "FBC" in blue hairspray!

Ariel got called on stage to play a game in "The Great Adventure!"

and so did Jacob!!