Beautiful Singing at Church

More Pool Fun

bomb's away

the race is on

poor little Madelyn was dunked by her mommy

Jay's dolphin dive over a noodle

Thanks Meredith for sharing your pool with us!!!! I think Jay had the most fun.

A Pool Birthday Party

The girls were invited to their friend's pool party. We all had a great time. I took a bunch of pictures for the birthday girl's mom so I figured I would go ahead and put them on here.

Is this not too cute???
great food!
The birthday girl's mom made this cake.

the birthday girl

Rebecca

NBT Contests

There were several contests going on through out the week. Mr. Matt said that the one with the most visitors in the Junior and Primary classes gets to put a goldfish in his mouth. Now, he kinda cheated in my opinion. The only goldfish at the store that afternoon were either really tiny or really large. He picked the tiny one to swallow.

Haleigh won the most visitors and also won the highest memory verses learned through out the week. This earned her the opportunity to drop the goldfish in Mr. Matt's mouth and a pie in his face.

With Rebecca being the top memorizer in her class, she also got to put a pie in Mr. Matt's face.

It was dark and her back was to me so the video didn't really turn out.

Here is Mr. Dan, our youth pastor. "I told the teenagers that if they met the goal of 55 teenagers at NBT they could do whatever they wanted to me and so they decided on a mohawk!"

Of course, he shaved it off completely by Sunday and it will grow back quickly.

I'm not sure what the deal was here but apparently Mr. Brandon lost this one. Syrup and sugar... Not something I would want poured on me.

This is Mr. AJ, the teens rally time evangelist. Don't know what the stipulations were here either but he was supposed to have his leg waxed. He prayed that no one would remember to bring the wax and they didn't. Therefore, he had the clippers used to shave his leg. Not really a true shaving experience, by any means.

NBT Awards

Rebecca won first place for her grade winning a Bible and top scripture memorizer in the junior class.
Notice that they are dressed alike? haha Emily walking up when she won first place in her grade. I was sitting in the back and Christine's oldest sister was gracious enough to take pictures for me. Thanks so much Brittany!!!
Em also won a new Bible.

Christine won 4th place for her grade.

Christine won the coloring contest for the juniors.

The girls were so excited to have their friends come with them all week long.

Mystery Men

The children go wild when the mystery men enter during rally time. You never know who they are, how many there will be and what they are coming to take. Here is a video of a couple times when they pais their visit. Be sure to turn your volume down when listening to this as there is lots of screaming.

Neighborhood Bible Time

NBT is an action packed week of Bible, fun, and eternal decisions. I have been privileged to be apart of it for 3 years now. This year, Mrs. Julie and I taught the Juniors which are 4th-6th graders. We were a bit out of our element at first with us used to teaching the younger children but it was a lot of fun. We had an average of 32 to 36 children each day.

We started off with class time. Julie taught the Bible story and I taught the missionary story.

Mrs. Julie teaching After class time and a 20 minute break for snack and running around, the juniors headed to the sanctuary for Rally Time with Evangelist Mr. Matt.

Rebecca, along with others, was able go listen to the missionary's secret. To be able to hear this, you must bring at least 2 visitors and promise to not share the secret with anyone other than your parents. If you do, you have to give your ribbons back to Mr. Matt. This was something that both Em and Bec took very seriously!

Offering is a lot of fun for the children. It is a competition between the Wonderful Women and the Mighty Men. It is given in pennies. If you have dollar bills, you can exchange it for penny rolls. If you bring $5, you can buy a gold brick. In the past, the girls usually dominate. This time, the boys were spending lots of money and bought several gold bricks.

After the collection of the pennies and bricks in the pink or blue buckets, the children are made to do something fun. Everything is a contest and the boys won this round.

Each child is given a study guide to complete throughout the week. The primaries color and the juniors have questions to answer from the Bible. On the front of the study guide is a coloring sheet. On Wednesday, there is a coloring contest. There are 4 top contestants for each group. Surprisingly, Rebecca was picked as one. This is her face when her friend Christine's name was called, too.
Here are the top 4. They have to turn around and their peers do to voting anonymously.
Christine and Rebecca

During the week, the children learn 5 facts to our everlasting life. Here is one child doing fact

# 1.

Here is another doing fact #2.

I heard the booster cheer hundreds of times during the week. With 4 girls (my 2 plus a friend each) in the car on the 30 minute ride there and 30 minutes home each day... I was completely burned out of the booster cheer!