A Good Start To Summer

This week the kids and I had a blast at camp! A new church recently opened up in our diocese. As they are still building their staff, several people from our church are helping in the interim. I was running their vacation bible school camp this week. It was a great experience for the kids and I.

This church is in the lowest income area of our city. Many of the children don't have enough to eat during the summer months, when school is out. Most of the kids in this area receive breakfast and lunch at school during the year. These are the only meals some of them get. So, we fed them both breakfast and lunch. After lunch on the first day, some of them came up to me and the other volunteers and told us that this is the most they had ever eaten and that the now knew what being full felt like. To say hearing those words was heartbreaking is an understatement.

We were fortunate enough to have a wonderful staff of volunteers, who went above and beyond every day. Most of them were in high school, with some adults and two jr. volunteers that happen to live in my house.

I was very proud of how seriously the kids took their "jobs" and all work they did. The girl and boy helped out in prepping and feeding the kids breakfast and lunch. The girl worked in the pre-k and 1st grade classes as a helper and in the craft room with all of the kids all week. The high school boys and girls took the boy under their wing and he helped out with the outside games and activities. They had so much fun working with the kids and volunteers. When hubby would call in the morning the boy would tell him "daddy, I can't talk, I have to go to work and volunteer today".
The boy playing a game with the camp kids. They were playing four squares. He was the caller, so he had to be blindfolded.

The kids singing the songs they learned today for their parents. If you look closely, you can see the girl on one end and the boy on the other.

Today, after it was all over the kids asked if they could do it again.

A dip in the pool at their Aunt's house. A fun ending to a good week.