gathered
the gathering was great fun. the kids were well behaved if not a little girl obsessed at times. Rachel Kurtz did great as did Agape of course. The kids really dug them both and thought it was especially cool that Rachel called us up to lead actions and then to have 600 kids sing happy birthday to me. This is what it looked like:
In the spirit of hip-hop I gave all the kids rap names and used them through out the weekend which worked towards my end goal of embarassing them – not unlike my continued over the top enthusiasm for all and any actions we were taught. And the thing is, once I was a total embarassement they realized there was nothing to lose and they all totally partictipated and they all totally had a blast – it was awesome.
here’s a shot of the posse – we dubbed ourselves “da crazy 8’s”
that’s a shot of us at Mickey’s diner where i took them for midnight devotions and where our server used every foul word under the sun which didn’t seem to affect the kids until i pulled out my bible for devotions and they said, “maybe we shouldn’t do those here.” I got a kick out of it. And we did the devotions. And won our server to our savior. Not really, Jesus already took care of that.
And now it’s snowing. Dang it.