As always, Jenny pulled together an amazing team of adults and junior crew leaders committed to teaching kids about Jesus.
This was Chandler's second year as a junior crew leader. She so loved it last year that she couldn't wait to do it again this year. She helped Rick Bambrick and Selina Garcia corral around 16 little 4-6-year-olds. They were SO ADORABLE and proved to be a bit of a challenge. Rick said it was like herding kittens! But Chandler excels at helping to take care of small ones, so this was right up her alley.
This was Regan's first year as a junior crew leader. She assisted Chris Harris with 1st and 2nd graders. Here she took the opportunity to help them cool off!
One of the games had as its object to soak the junior crew leader... so Chandler used her crew as a human shield!
She looks so BIG when surrounded by all those little ones. It doesn't seem so long ago that she WAS one of the little ones.
Of course, she is not so grown up that she can't enjoy making crafts along side the kids. Here she shows off her slime.
On the day the kids learned about Jesus rising from the dead, Darrenn had them conduct an experiment where soda would "rise". As the junior crew leader, Regan was chosen to drop an entire packet of Mentos into a Diet Pepsi 2 liter bottle. In this first picture, she is jumping out of the way of the instant reaction as soon as the first Mentos hit the soda...
Here you see how high it shot up!
Chandler got to conduct the same experiment. However, she did not jump back instantly and the soda shot right into her face!
Eventually she jumped back as the Pepsi shot over her!
Each day ended with Darrenn and Christopher Lytle retelling the Bible story, reviewing the Bible point and the memory verse, and conducting an experiment to illustrate the story.
On the day we talked about Jesus coming to live in you, Darrenn and Christopher hooked up a pickle to electricity and caused it to glow. Being that they are both apparently still thirteen years old, they couldn't say "glowing pickle" without giggling...
Here was Christopher doing his "Duuuuude" when trying to act cool for the kids.
I spent my time taking pictures and generally filling in wherever Jenny needed me. Everything was very smooth and very well done. The kids really loved it. Every child got into the stories and the songs, the crafts and the games... it was so cool to see them all participating and LOVING it!
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Great shots, and action stuff too! I need to get you on the sidelines for our new venture!
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Looks like fun. Merritt got to go to a Power Lab VBS at a church here in town (they turned Mason away because they already had too many kids in his age group.) I'm sure it wasn't nearly as fabulous as the one you guys put on. Of course, we don't have Jenny in Hanford.
By the way, last summer there was a science day camp offered for free at the mall and they did the mentos experiment in the mall in front of JC Penneys. The soda hit the ceiling of the mall. Pretty awesome. It made me never want to eat mentos while drinking Diet Pepsi though.
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