Day 1 - SEW Olympics - Faster

Today was the first day of the Service Emphasis Week for the Sala Sala Kids' Club.  There are numerous teams from HOPAC spread out all over the city and even the country doing other service projects.  We had teams go to Dodoma, Morogorro, etc, etc.  They are visiting nursery schools, doing building projects, and helping set up things here at HOPAC.  You name it, the kids are involved somewhere!

The group we're involved with has 14 HOPAC students and several of the teachers.  It is lead by the Sala Sala Kids' Club Leader, an independent from HOPAC, missionary from England.  They spent several hours on Tuesday and all day Wednesday setting up an Olympic themed fun time for about 60 kids from Sala Sala, the rock quarry area behind the school.

Today's theme was Faster...keep looking and reading and you'll get the idea about what we did today!

Yesterday we got to decorate and hang up a bunch of flags

My team!  We're RED!

The girls, doing a warm up and singing a song

Joseph, Shabani and Baraka...A few of the kids as they were showing up

The Opening Ceremony and Parade

The National Anthem, by none other than our friend, Anissa

Julia and Makenzie leading the warm-up exercises to "The Eye of the Tiger"...hilarious!

Look at those jumps!

Our Memory Verse today, in Kiswahili

1 Corinthians 9:24  "Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize?  Run in such a way as to get the prize!"

The kids reciting the memory verse

Keeping track of the points on the Olympic Track

A Potato and Spoon race

Decorating the team flags

Oh yes, what a mess

Loving the painted hands

Good pose there Makenzie

Some great flags were made

The black team

Finishing up the red flag

Oh yes, we won first prize!  Ten Points!

Red and Black Team Flags

Green Team

Yellow and Blue Teams

The Bible Story and Skit

Working hard, digging for treasure in the hot, hot sun

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...and we're off to the races!  Look at those girls fly...and with no shoes on.

Some of the boys, they sure can get some height.

Ahhhh, Sissi and Helena!

They just love to have their picture taken...in fact, they kept trying to take the camera from me and I kept saying "subiri, subiri" (can you guess..."wait, wait")

My boys, they were TIRED!

Another race.  We had the 50 meter and the 200 meter.  We ran it for boys and girls, 8-9 and then 10-11 years old.

Wow, she's a runner!

A few more coming in.  We're cheering them on!

The beginning of another race!

You can do it!

Getting their awards at the end!

Sissi helped to put their stickers on and give them their medals