This week is a fulfillment of a dream made reality.
You may remember a previous post alluding to this week, but for various reasons I had to keep things under wraps. Now that it’s here, I can spill the beans.
It’s time once again for the McKinney Fellowship Preschool Worship and Arts Camp.  This year’s theme? “Rockin’ Rollin’ Praise.” Our theme verse is 1 Samuel 2:2:
There is no one holy like the LORD; there is no one besides You; there is no Rock like our God.
We had anticipated an increase in our enrollment from last year when we had 25 little people join us for our “Jammin’ Jungle Praise” adventure. With the recession in full force, I did not dare to get my hopes up. But our God is a big God and He provided 44 exuberant campers! With the increase in enrollment came an increase in our staff needs as well. I was amazed by the way God once again answered prayer as we had two adult leaders in every rotation as well as 4 high school and middle school “counselors” to lead the groups through their rotations, and assorted young helpers for the various activities. All told, we had over 20 volunteers helping each day making sure camp ran smoothly and the children were safe and had fun.
We extended our camp day by 45 minutes this year to accomodate an additional Bible story rotation. Our day began with a large group time, where my good friend “Shell-don” the turtle made a visit each morning to help us understand about God, our Rock. I had a great time stretching my creative writing skills to write a puppet script for each day, and the children really loved Shell-don. We then moved into our rotation times with about 30 minutes per rotation for crafts, rhythm/creative movement (where they also received a snack), Bible story, and music. After two hours of rotation, we had a recreation period where campers rotated each day through playground, bubbles, and sidewalk chalk creative play. We closed our day in a large group time where we rehearsed our special program to present to parents on Friday.