Okay. I decided to do a completer but briefer version of my blog, there
are cool memories to cherish, in this way. I figured probably
nobody is going to do one after me, if I had done the weeks
separately, the entire screen would be all coved by my name, so please
bear with my super long blog!
Club 1: Battle ford
“We are back” and “You are back! “
We had this super cute blonde girl back in this year! Last year we had a very hard week2, but in the evening of that week, a little girl that did not come from a churched home kept coming to us every day and she was just so cute and she enjoy everything we did together, the existence of her actually healed our damaged hearts each day after we had some tough clubs during the day. She had seriously given her life to our Lord and savior Jesus throughout that week and our hostess actually connected her to the VBS of their alliance church. But we were kind of sad going to the second half of our summer this year and finding out that hostess that in the neighborhood where this cute blonde girl was cannot have a club this year.
We did have conversation like this earlier “it would be nice getting to see her this year”
Just wait…
Monday, 9:30, our last clubber jumped into us! She has blonde hair and cute little nose and oh my goodness she is so tall now!
Out of any of our expectation, this cute blonde girl from our last year showed up on our first club of week 4! This club is also very close to her neighborhood! From Wednesday she was with a broken knee but she just kept coming for all the days! And it is so cool to find out that she has been going to VBS and getting connected to the church throughout the year. She is just an one-year-old believer, but our Lord is going to make her life grow!
A million times
Also we had this very cool Ninja boy (he sometimes showed up in “Ninja mode”)in this club writing on his lesson
“When did you accept Christ?”
“After my dad talked to me like a million time.”
We laughed as we went through the lesson. Good job, “dad”!
Club 2: Mosquito:
You are back, and welcome to the family of our Lord!
The Mosquito club that we loved last year, was a big club with 44 kids so we knew we were going to get lots of kids. This was such a great club, as we were getting more and more kids it was getting harder and harder I actually cried to our Lord “I really can’t do it! Please do something for the kids through me!”
And He did! Sometimes Tiara needed to pay specific attention to some kids, and I had to deal with a huge group of kids all by my own, and as my heart sunk in my tears of fear I received the strength and leadership from above to lead kids in games! It ends it up being a great week, there were so many stories to be told at this club: We had a girl that had allergy reaction in one of the days, she got picked up and sent to the hospital but did not come back until Friday. We were so worried during the week, but on Friday…
“Wow you are back!”
And her eyes lit up, she seemed to be OK!
Even better, she became our sister in Christ that day! Tiara said she was super sincere!
“How can I teach a club?”
We have a 17-year-old girl that enjoyed out club a lot, she was with
us last year too, but just because she just looked like the other 12
year old girls we never noticed that she was already 15 or 16, this
year she accepted Jesus on our last day. She has been helping us all
the time helped us as if she was the 3rd worker all week, and she also helped with
littler kids too! I was kind of afraid of this girl at the beginning,
because while I was telling the story, she always staring at me for
long time, why was she doing that?!
But on the last day she asked us a lot of questions about how to be a
5-day club teacher, Tiara got really excited for her and told her a
lot of information, even after we left, for long Tiara and I often
talked about her, then Tiara told me how happy she was when she heard
about this girl asking about teaching clubs, she was
serious and she wanted to do the same thing that we did. Then I
remembered that “scary” staring eyes to us while we were telling the
story, she must have been thinking a lot as she watched us teaching.
Please pray if God leads you to pray for this girl, for this young
believer and for her heart to teach clubs for the Lord. I know it can be so
much harder in her case, but I hope her willing heart can be
the start of God’s wonderful work, in God everything is possible.
“I kept everything!”
Here’s another girl, she has very pretty, straight long hair and she
she accept Christ last year at club so I made
card to encourage her, as I did for all the other kids that accept Christ. And Monday she just ran to us and told us “I kept my craft and the card you made for me!” and sure she showed us her card and crafts she kept! They were just in very perfect condition.
other day. This girl has been around us throughout the week, we had some really nice chat, from the visuals we had drawn and her brother, she also give each of us a nice gift out of her favorite things!
Club 3: Pound maker
This was a club turned out so well and kids enjoyed them so much last year, however due to car trouble and weather we couldn’t have it anymore after 2 days of club. But one little girl had been helping us cleaning up and finding some of her friends to club. She had a decision in that week, she also wrote me “I love you” on my CEF Bible before we said goodbye to her. Yes she is back even if she actually moved, yes she is back and she told me she has been going to church this year!
And we also have another girl that always smile with a cute grinned face, she had a decision last year. When she saw Tiara invited her she said “Is Jean there?! I named my doll Jean!” She ran to me as she saw me, and she told me she kept the card she got. That “named my doll Jean” was a blast to us! Tiara and I were really pumped by the effect of God’s work through the cards we made for the kids, this year we had too much driving and drawing visuals sometimes we just felt unsure about drawing cards for kids, but this is like a reply from God: He can use these cards! That’s really awesome.
This is a club that is so special to us, however the week was really tough as it rained every day. It’s really like a miracle that we almost had 5 meetings throughout the week, but there were multiple times we all came to a conclusion “It just rained so bad we can’t have it today” and we wanted to go to town site to tell the kids we can’t come, but there they were always so ready to have a club! And every time Tiara would say “OK just kidding let’s have it!”
On Wednesday, it was still before the rain but we knew the storm cloud was on its way so we had to go and tell the kids, but when we got to see the kids, they invited friends and they were just waiting for us to have a club… But all of sudden, rain came down. We had to just quickly handed out prizes and let the kids go home quickly before the storm got worse. It really was breaking our heart seeing the kids not being able to have a club. Thankfully, even though we had to keep all the clubs short, our God made a five-day club at pound maker this year. But we just hope strongly, someday God is going to provide great contact person for 5-day club on this reserve so we can have a hall to held the club.
Week 5
The week that we are not on the reserve but in the little towns close by Swift current!
Club 1 Glenkerr
This was a VBS club in a Mennonite community. It was a great club, they got cool decoration set up for the theme color of each day, and The kids are all so cute. In this club we got attacked by all kids on Wednesday and Thursday while I was doing the “cliff hanger trick” to pretend giving kids a look of the next picture and at the mean time turn around super-fast so nobody could actually see anything. They just wanted to see the next page of Gladys’s story so much, they just surrounded me completely and all stood really close to me, and I actually had to throw my visual to Tiara so the visual would not be taken away. That was crazy and awesome to see how the kids were into the story. On the Thursday story we had a part in the story that’s about Gladys leading kids to sing hymns as Gladys and all her a hundred children were walking in the mountains and in danger of being shot by helicopters. And we used the hymn “amazing grace”, for the first time we got the kids singing the hymn with us as we told the story, it was stunning: we all know that Mennonite kids have gorgeous voice! It was super cute!
Club 2 Morse
This is a museum club, this is quite special, at least Tiara and I had never had a chance to teach a club in the museum before. The kids all listened so well and one of the kids were really connected to us. That was a very sweet boy that would come early an hour before club time and wanted to have lunch with us and hugged us everyday. We were glad about all the time we get to spend with the kids, even though the boy that got really connected to us had to leave for an operation on Friday, we still did a little video for him for his sister to send along to him!
Club 3 Herbert
What A cool club! 39 kids on attendance for a backyard club, but if we count all the very little ones at club, the number is definitely over 45! The age group of this club is about 5-8, with some older kids that’s about 10-12 years old. We got parents sitting with the kids so we did not need to worry crowd control, we had so many keeners that answered all the questions we asked, little kids that found memorizing verses so hard but came to me everyday and tried, we had kids that came to Christ while their parents helping them doing their lessons, we also had a boy tried to be cool on Thursday when I played the cliff hanger trick and said “do you guys wanted to see the next page” and this actually very cute boy just claimed “No I don’t want to see!” and got his eyes wide opened while I was turning the page. We were so glad about how this club was well organized and how great this club turned out to be.
Week 6
Club 1 was a great opportunity to meet with a strong Christian native family in this little town named livelong. The kids all look so big and tall! The 9-year old boy just looked like 14 years old and his 6-year-old boy was like 9! We had to be careful not to treat them as they look like! Everyday after the club was done they were still being attached to us and they were very looking forward to see us next day, we love these kids so much.
Club 2 at Moosomin reserve was still affected by rain, since our hostess wasn’t quite able to arrange a club in the school gym, so we had to do it on the school playground. On the first day we almost felt like no kids was going to come, then we were so excited to see two kids that accept Christ last year at Saulteux reserve, we were so happy to see each other and we were so ready to have a good club that week. However, on Tuesday it rained so heavy and it was too cold to have any club outside, no kids were able to come. On Wednesday we went back and found our kids from last year back! One of the kids saw the poster of this club so they gathered at the playground but at the beginning we didn’t recognize each other! Its’ really awesome to see some of the kids came back from last year, and still remember things from last year. We had a club, handed snacks to the kids and played some games and the kids were having fun not being caught by me! After our hope was lit up again, on Thursday it rained so badly that we could not even head to the reserve because the rain was just on our way. We were both discouraged and hoping for a good last day. And sure enough, the kids were there, ready to have a club with us again on the last day! That was almost a club with all boys, but they all listened so well to the bible stories, they were so energetic when we played games before club started, but while they were listening, all of them just in silence, we were completely amazed, we know God wants them to hear about Himself. We also got a new brother on that day and held a little chips and pop party with the kids, thankfully, this club at the end turned out pretty good.
OK, that’s just a brief view of our summer, sorry my blog came so late. Thank you so much again for your prayer and everything for the summer!
