Big Foot

We had a very special treat today! David Mills paid us a visit and showed us some of his own personal encounters with Sasquatch, otherwise known as Big Foot. David works in the Forestry and Parks Service so he spends a lot of time deep in the woods. He has personally had over 20 encounters with Sasquatch over the years he has spent in the forest. We had the opportunity to see his plaster imprint of Sasquatch's foot. It is quite a sight to see. We will post some pictures of David and his foot impression. It is quite an amazing thing to listen to him share his stories.

Uncle Oley's House

Uncle Oley is the oldest elder in the tribe. He is 86 years old, unstable in his walk, has failing eyesight, yet is an absolute joy to be around. Some of us had the opportunity to go over to his house to clean up his yard, do some small cleaning in his house and just hang out and talk with him. His house could be a museum because he has so many items related to his people. He has a basket that his family made that is 150 years old! Hand-carved canoe paddles, small totem poles and other beautiful wood carvings. It is hard for him to do much of this these days due to his pour eyesight but he is fun to talk to and learn from.

Click on the link to the left marked "Uncle Oley's" where you will find pictures of Uncle Oley and some of our crew working in his yard and spending time with him. Uncle Oley shared with us that today had been one of the best days he had in a long time because he had people to visit with and to be around. We are so thankful that we were able to be used in such a simple but mighty way. We will be back to his house tomorrow to finish up the yard work.

Day two of VBS!

The morning started off great! Some kids showed up 30 minutes early. Dan and Michael went off to round up kids and while they were out more kids showed up at the church with their parents. By the time we got started there were 32 kids total that God had trusted in our hands. (Pictured below)

Our Bible Point for the day was God is with us. WAAAAHOOOOO!!! And our verse was found in Joshua 9:1 - The Lord your God is always with you wherever you go. The kids did a great job learning the verse and the hand motions that Sybil puts to the verses really helps too!

Caitlin and Brittany each got to teach the kids a new song this morning. Caitlin taught the kids, The Great Adventure and Brittany taught them This Is the Day. Some of the new kids were a bit hesitant to get involved in the hand motions of the songs but by the end they had relaxed and were having fun.

Jessica taught our story today which was about the Israelites crossing the Jordan River as they entered into the Promise Land. The kids even got to "cross" the river with a very creative idea utilizing two sheets. They also got to pick up stones from the "river" and build a monument to remind them of how God helped them cross the river just like the Israelites did. The kids had a great time with this story. (Pictured below)

Allison's project for the kids in crafts today was to make a frame with a foil impression of some starts and the phrase God is with us. WAAAAAHOOOOOO!!! This is to remind the kids that though we may not be able to see the star, we can see the light from the star in the sky. We cannot "see" God but we know that God is with us (WAAAAAHOOOOO!!!) because of God's light in our life.

Doug had the kids running around crazy during recreation today. Each day in Bible school we have a Bible Buddy that helps the kids learn the Bible Point and the Bible verse for the day. Our Bible Buddy today was Shadow a herding dog on Avalanche Ranch. In the game today the kids played Elbow Tag where the kids are split into pairs, linked at the elbow and spread out across the field. One person is "it" and chases another person around the field. Once the link up with a pair on the field the person they did not link with in the pair now has to run around and not get tagged by the "it" person. "It" today was Shadow and Shadow was trying to herd up the cattle by chasing the loose person. The kids caught on quick and had a great time. (Pictures below)

Erica's snack time was a hit as the kids made their own smores. Yummmm! The kids responded well, especially to all the sugar we pumped into them so it was a good thing this was the last thing for the day for us.

The kids went home already looking forward to the next day. Who knows how many we will have tomorrow? We may go over 4o but regardless we are committed to ministering to whoever God directs our way.

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Joe and Doug finally get here!

Joe and Doug Savarie came late because of a family wedding in Detroit, MI on Saturday. It was going to be simple: Hop on a plane in Detroit, fly to Dallas, hop on a plane to Seattle, then ride the ferry to our hotel. Well it didn't happen that way. The got up at 5:00 am and caught their flight out of Detroit to Dallas, no problem. Once in Dallas things went south quickly. American forgot to get the plane out of the hanger which was to take them to Seattle. No plane, no flight. So the flight was canceled. They were then put on another plane to fly out much later in the day. That flight got scratched so they were then booked on Alaskan Airways from Dallas to Denver. One perk was that they were placed in first class. Then they waited for the flight to Seattle which was right on time. As they arrived in Seattle, somehow their luggage made it to Seattle before them but at least they had their luggage. They caught a taxi to the ferry and rode across where we arrived to rescue them at 9:00pm after a long 19 hour day. Hey their here and it is good to have our team complete now.