DAY TWO!!!!
We awoke at 8:00 am ish, and had breakfast at 8:30 am
Becca with her very much needed cup of coffee.
Our Breakfast meal.
Alexa looks like she got lots of sleep.
We opened with morning devotions.
I asked Pastor Kaleb if he would do this with us every morning. He did a wonderful job. He should be a Pastor or something. : )
The classic line up for breakfast shot.
Lisa is doing such a great job taking pictures.
I'm going to have to have her come back again next year. : )
Awe, Katrina does love me. : )
Everyone's chipper this morning, ready for the day's training and participants to arrive.
Our t-shirt this year.
Heather looking at my blog post.
That makes me feel soooooo good. : )
So, this is the room that hosts just mentors.
Man, are they slobs..... : ) Can't wait to see how it looks (and smells) by Wednesday. : )
Getting ready for more training time.
Mark gave us a great 5 minute inspirational message.
Joanna walked us through each of our participants who will be coming today. It's important for us to get to know them before they arrive.
After training was some free time. Heather and Alexa found the 100 piece puzzles I see.
The stage is starting to take on it's final shape.
Kaitlyn helping set up for small group time.
Hmmmm, Football in the basement. Must be Braidon doing this again. : )
Interesting Heather......
I'm putting together our chariots once again.
We use them once a year for SERVE it seems now.
They were made many years ago during my Sarnia ministry days for VBS. We used them here for VBS as well. Nice to be able to use them again.
We test drove them.
Nathaniel and Justin seem to be having a very good time. Love that red hair.
Registration all set up and ready to go.
So, before we go any further in the day, it's time to introduce our team this year, and then our mentors/participants.
This is Olivia, who is helping with Video and who helped set up our Warm fuzzy table.
Annette, who is helping with our prayer partners and handing out warm fuzzy gifts that arrive for our participants and mentors. And BOY are they arriving. Thanks to all who are giving in this way.
Janine, who is helping with our work sites and other community life stuff.
Grace, who is helping with our small group and craft time.
Sarah, who helped set up the warm fuzzy table and is singing in the praise team and helping with our pampering session on Wednesday.
Joanna, who is in charge of ensuring our Participants are well taken care of.
Me, who is in charge of making sure everyone is able to do what they are in charge of. : ) An some other stuff too.
Lisa, our photographer....AWESOME!!!
Bea, who is in charge of small groups, and helping out with crafts.
Harold, who is in charge of work sites and making sure our we have drivers to take us around to the various venues.
Kitty, co coordinator in the Kitchen.
Ruth, coordinator in the Kitchen.
Both Kitty and Ruth are new to this, but doing very well.
Kaleb.
Helping with Devotions and pretty much anything else that's asked of him. A great guy. A kindred spirit.
Mark, our speaker.
Mary-Jane
One of our nurses.
Christine, Praise team coordinator.
Jane, helping with craft time.
Joanna helping out Bea and Grace with crafts and other things.
Annet, Kitchen coordinator
Anne, kitchen coordinator
Leanne, Nurse
Denise, nurse
Now for our Mentor Participant Pairings.
Participant (Left): Zachary
Mentor (right): Nathaniel
Participant (Left): Deshawn
Mentor (right): Carissa
Participant (Left): Kyle
Mentor (right): Joshua
Mentor (left): Janika
Participant (middle): John
Mentor (right): Emily
Participant (Left): Ryan
Mentor (right): Samantha
Participant (Left): Joseph
Mentor (right): Justin
Mentor (left): Daniel
Participant (middle): Benjamin
Mentor (right): Alex
Participant (Left): Shannon
Mentor (right): Brittany
Mentor (left): Alexa
Participant (middle): Jessica
Mentor (right): Meghan (with an H)
Mentor (Left): Lysanne (pronounced Leezanne)
Participant (right): Christina
Mentor (Left): Heather
Participant (right): Stephanie
Participant (Left): Lisa
Mentor (right): Christie
Participant (Left): Ben
Mentor (right): Joy
Participant (Left): Francine
Mentor (right): Kaitlyn
Mentor (left): Nicolette
Participant (middle): Alex
Mentor (right): Katrina
Participant (Left): Tyler
Mentor (right): Braidon
Participant (Left): Philippe
Mentor (right): Liam
There you have it. A great team that are now in the building and officially starting SERVE 2015.
We are missing three participants who will be coming later on this evening. I'll introduce you to them and their mentors tomorrow.
Here's Deshawn saying hello to Braidon.
Olivia and Sarah finally finished the warm fuzzy table.
It will get A LOT of use this week. : ) Great job!
Janika just having fun as she usually does.
She's having fun with Zach.
Deshawn and Carissa getting to know each other before we begin our games time.
When our participants arrived, they received their name badge, a tool belt with tools, a t-shirt an other small goodies. They got their pictures taken and then they relaxed until 4 pm (arrival time was between 2 - 4 pm).
Not every participant arrived at the same time.
Here's Lysanne waiting patiently.
Old Friends reunited at SERVE. Touching.
That's Kyle and Zach.
Lisa doing a craft that will be going up on the Sanctuary wall soon.
Jessica creating with Lego.
John and Emily drawing.
That paper is BRIGHT!
Heather and Stephanie hamming it up.
That's a new way to use Mexican train pieces. Nice job.
At 4 pm we started some game time stuff.
I wasn't around for that, so not exactly sure what's going on here. : ) Looks cozy though.
Alex is enjoying it. : )
Red Rover?????
hmmmmm.......
something to do with walking in pairs.
Bea will have to comment on the blog to let us know what's happening here.
Joy and Ben.
Every year we use water for something. : )
Medals for everyone.
Transporting our participants.
Tag team.
Philippe is lovin it. : )
Jessica telling Alexa and Meghan to MOVE IT!
A nice way to ride eh Deshawn?
Nice to see our Mentors serving.
More games. Moving the ball from blanket to blanket?
Lisa having a blast.
Olivia capturing many of our moments on video.
Each Mentor and Participant will get copies of the week in around 6 months.....(FYI)
Kitty getting things ready for our for supper.
The food was once again AMAZING!
John hamming it up.
A hair elastic...really John? : )
Meal time line up again. : )
Alex and Nicolette seem a perfect pairing, don't you think?
Kitchen crew eating after we had eaten.
Warm fuzzies starting to accumulate in the mailboxes.
After Supper it was time for small groups!!
Tyler is ready to go. : )
Justin and Joseph working through the workbook.
Then it was time for worship and speaker.
Tyler LOVES worship time.
I see he has a new electric guitar.
Sarah and Janika lifting up praises to God.
Alex doing the same in the background.
A shot of the group gathered for worship.
We always have help during worship time. : )
And then it was time for Mark to speak.
He started out by having some previous Participants share words of wisdom about how to have fun at SERVE, what they were afraid of in coming for the first time, and how they over came that fear.
And once again Mark involved me in his shenanigans.
But I love doing this with him.
Alex helping me.
Mark loves audience participation.
After worship and speaker time, it was craft time.
We have some budding artists in the group. Ryan doing a great job.
Zach too.
A beautiful picture.
Philippe enjoying the creative side of himself.
John loves art. I see many of his creations on FaceBook.
Ben under the watchful eye of Joy.
After Craft time it was snack time and then bed time.
The first bed time went very well this year. Yeah!!!!!
We end our evening in the youth room with our mentors sharing how our day went. I'm super proud of all our mentors already. They have done great work, and they all look so TIRED. : )
Tomorrow is another day. Stay tuned to see what happens.
3 comments:
Looks like a lot of fun! Proud of our Redeemer Mentors and all the hard work they are doing! Way to go! Live Loudly and be a light!!
How did you get Pastor K to smile with his teeth showing in a "posed" shot...doesn't happen here. Thanks for doing this, it helps us connect!
Some answers to Ron's questions.....
Those linked arm groupings were participants and mentors playing clothespin tag. The object was to steal other group's clothes pins.
Using the chariots, the mentors were to ferry all the participants to the other side of the park. And those towels were flinging water balloons into another towel. Of course sometimes they didn't make it to the next towel. Finally, those squished participants and mentors kept singing Row, Row, Row Your Boat with variations, on an increasingly smaller space. All these games 'broke the ice' and started everyone on the path of getting along and enjoying each other's company.
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