A Daily Process

Friday, March 23, 2012

Day 2 - SEW Olympics - Higher

...And Day 2 is in the bag! We had a great time going "Higher" today!

Getting ready for the kids to arrive and doing some practicing for the day

Just a few of the boys from the Red Team

So much personality

Opening Ceremonies with our completed flags today

National Anthem

Some warm up exercises and stretching!!!

Team relay dress up races

This was just too much fun, and had to be done twice because they weren't quite sure what we were doing

Not really asleep; but, she was certainly tired today

Faster, faster!

Mummy Race

Too cute

The winner, I think the hat won it for him

Working on the Memory Verse for the day, Psalm 24:3-4

Another team working on their verse

Yet another team reciting their verse

Julia and James

The individual competition for the memory verse

Making bead bracelets for the craft. It had all the colors of the Olympic Flag and we talked about the significance of the colors in relation to Christ.

Lots of concentration

Having fun at craft time

Bible Story and Skit about Jesus walking on the water and Peter coming to meet him

"Jesus" helping "Peter" up after he was sinking

The high jump

The long jump, some amazing height

Wow, they can go the distance

The group of HOPAC SEW leaders

One of the girl high jump winners

I must have taken 50 pictures of the kids today

What a sweetie

A bit of attitude in this one

Another good jumper

Woohoo, a medal for our team today. Actually, we received several!

Thursday, March 22, 2012

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

...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")