Dare to Be Great!

We began the day with some fun at the Blair Park apartments...we did our first Hopetown Kids Club of the summer.  It was wonderful!  We had a bunch of kids come out (and some of their parents came as well) and we are hoping we will have a bunch more next week because we are not allowed to canvas the buildings in that area in advance to let them know what we are planning.  Once we got there, some of us just went walking through the apartment complex letting people that were outside know what we were doing and telling them we will be there the next 5 Wednesdays from 11-noon doing songs, a bible lesson, and silly games with the kids....it was fun to see all the kids running around knocking on doors of their friends and saying, "COME ON!"  They were so attentive and receptive....it was truly GRRREEEEAAAT!  We hope to do this one in Jackson and also another one in Parma, MI this year since we now have ownership of the old Parma United Methodist Church.

Praise God the storms held off until the afternoon :)

McKenna and Savannah participated in a drama....I am so excited that they are eager to help with kids club and minister in this way :)  These are the important things!!! Then later, we planned a surprise going-away party for two of our youth at The Parlour.....our challenge....to DARE TO BE GREAT!

This is an actual DARE TO BE GREAT Sundae from the Parlour in Jackson, MI

This is what it looks like once you finally get your group in the door for the big SURPRISE....ha!  A little different than the original picture :)  HURRY!  HURRY!.....it's meeeelllltttting.....

Some of our crew who met up at The Parlour to say goodbye to two of our youth as they will be heading to South Carolina very soon.....we will miss you guys!  Hey, maybe I will tag along....Charleston, SC or Parma, MI?  HMMMMM?

A picture of the animal in his natural habitat...errrr, I mean, Brad....good thing he practices eating ice cream almost every night.  It really isn't fair that he eats ice cream while I try to peddle to skinny-ville....just saying!  Notice the bowl in front of his smaller dish?....that was the base for the Dare to Be Great....they did pretty well finishing off the 21-scoop monstrosity!  It is mind blowing to me that some people have actually succeeded in eating that whole thing all by themselves in an hour or less....WOW!  I have only heard of one sundae that is bigger....I guess Airport Lanes used to have a sundae that they delivered in a wheelbarrow and they would put a red bowling ball on top of it all for the "cherry"....that would be interesting to see....I don't think they do it anymore.  Hopefully, this is an actual true story and I am not just passing on some urban legend or proving once again that I am so gullible....because I can visualize a wheelbarrow full of ice cream with a red bowling ball on top....can't you?

Kassandra, Karlayna, and I scoping out the tunes...Wow, do Karly's brown eyes ever stand out in this picture :)  My only "Brown-Eyed Girl".

Crazy Day!  And, we are just gearing up for it....I am not even completely done with work yet, but there's not too long until July 1st :)  Then, we will be in full (summer) gear...we have some really fun stuff planned this summer (some just family) but mostly kid and youth craziness.