We had about 63 kids at Vacation Bible School. Among those kids was Ronnie’s favorite kid from last year. Ronnie was glad to be able to reconnect with him again. At the Adult Bible Study, Emma brought fried Indian bread to share with everyone. Carol said at first that she had had a big breakfast and that she would only be able to eat a small piece of this bread. Well, the bread was so good that she ended up eating the whole piece of bread with honey on it. The women all laughed at her because of her gross underestimation. Marlene gave Carol a flowerpot that she had painted. It has Noah’s ark on it. Carol gave her a hug and told her that she was not going to let this get out of her sight. She did not, and some of the women were pointing at her with the flowerpot in her hand at lunch. Marleeta noticed how the women helped clean up the crafts at the end of the day. All we had to do was start cleaning up, and they plunged in full force making sure that everything was left in good order.
John Dillard, Nathan, and Howie spent the morning at Nelson’s house putting in the new window. John shared John 14:6 with Nelson and later brought Bibles to Nelson, Philip, and Nelson’s nephew. Nathan then dropped back by the church and left his prayer square on the podium at the White Horse Church.
Every day, Vacation Bible School ended with Ken gathering the kids around him to get them to recite their Bible verse for the day and to review what the kids had learned the previous day. On this day, the kids were very responsive to Ken. They did sign language of all of the themes for the last three days – Believe in God, Obey God, and Trust in God. The fourth and fifth graders were taught Proverbs 3:5 in sign language. It was neat to see the kids eager to answer Ken’s questions from the last three days’ lessons.
After lunch, Carol got one of the vans to drop her off at the Senior Center to play Bingo for an hour. The seniors were so excited to show the craft that they had done for the day. Carol sat between Mary and Virginia. She was especially impressed to see that even though Mary was the oldest person at the Senior Center, Mary had a very good grasp of the English language. Virginia did not have as strong of knowledge of the English language, and Carol got the honor of helping her with her Bingo card. At the end of the day, the seniors were very good about helping to clean up the tables. Virginia gave Denise a necklace, and Patti and Carol received a necklace from Helen. It was later learned that Denise and Patti were showered with this abundant love every day.
Pam, Jim, and Philip, spent the day painting the storage room at the Senior Center and putting down tile there. Mark was working in the bathroom.
In the afternoon, Dee kept several of our kids and some of the Navajo kids busy making signs for the carnival that we held in the evening for the community. Also, Kevin and Diane took pictures throughout everyday and loaded them into the computer set up in the dining hall so that we could enjoy them when we were preparing for the next day and during meals.
The carnival was a lot of fun. The kids played games like the Cake Walk, the Horse Shoe Toss, and Guess the Gum Balls. There also was fingernail polishing. Ken Powers and his son Alec were among those who got their nails polished. (LOL!!) There were about 100 people at Bingo. Robin was the main Bingo caller, and Dawn enjoyed giving out cards and space covers to all of the players. We served hotdogs, hamburgers, baked beans, chips, and cookies for dinner. It was sad to see the Navajos run to the food table when it was announced that the food would be taken up in five minutes. They swarmed around the food table taking any food that they could get to take home. That was evidence of not having enough food at home.
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