Monday Recap - Day #1

Monday morning started with an early wake-up call at approximately 6:30 AM! Have you ever tried to get 12 teenagers up at that hour, give themselves plenty of time to make themselves pretty, have a somewhat nutritious breakfast and get them out the door? The students were eager to get going and were filled up with fruit loops and bagels. Upon arriving at the school, we met with the entire camp team for devotions and announcements. The kids piled in around 8:45 am and the show was on.

The drama team introduced their “Superheroes” theme and the main character for the week, “Lightbulb Boy”, played by our very own Stern. The first skit had Lightbbulb Boy receive the key to the city from his mentor and last year’s camp star “Lampman”. After Lightbulb Boy is commissioned to be the next superhero to keep the world safe, he is off to fight crime as “Lightbulb Man”.

For the rest of the morning, the drama team led Bible Studies for 3 different age groups based on the story of David and goliath, the arts team designed an awesome “tie-dye-shirt” making centre and the sports team kept the kids active with caterpillar tag, soccer and other outdoor games. The afternoon session was a highlight as the entire team worked together to design a camp wide game for all the campers called “Superhero Survival School”, where the kids rotated between 8 cool stations to test their strength, vision, touch, quickness, agility and other attributes of a superhero. It was awesome.

By the end of the afternoon, the team was physically and emotionally spent, and everyone had a new appreciation for the rest of the full-time staff who have given all of their summer to serve the kids at Kerr Street Day Camp. At night, the team headed down to the Kerr Street Drop-In Centre and hung out, had pizza and wings and played video games. After that we went back to do some last minute prep for the morning, made our lunches and off to bed. Overall, an awesome first day.

On The Move!

Who said a missions trip would be smooth? After staying 2 nights at Kerr Street Ministries, we were notified yesterday by the Fire Department that it was illegal for our group to stay overnight at KSM any longer. That means it took us not even two full days to break the law! That meant that the boys needed to load into LJ's van and find a quick place to stay. Fortunately, his wife and kids are away for the week so we went to his swingin pad to chill for the next few days. I'm sure the neighbours were wondering what was up when we piled in the driveway at midnight last night!!

The arival july 19/09

Finally... after all the waiting and excitement we have arived. We have spent most of our time preparing and getting ready for our big day at work tomorrow. our day tomorrow will start 6:00am SHARP! Are morning will include waking up, showering, eatinging, than making our way over to oakwood public school.

More posts will updated tomorrow.


Post by-Stern (David C)

Commissioning

Hey Everyone,

Just a quick reminder that the Kerr Street Compassion Team will be commissioned at all 3 services this coming weekend (Sun, July 19) at The Meeting House. During the regular announcement time at each service, the team will be invited on stage so that the entire community can get a glimpse of the students we are sending to Kerr Street, hear a brief outline of why we are doing what we are doing, and be exposed the the work that theUNDERGROUND is doing this summer in the area of local compassion.

See you on Sunday.

LJ

Meet The Team!

In case you have not met the entire team, we have carefully selected the following 13 members to join the Kerr Street Compassion Team this summer:

Students:
Abbey Young
Courtney den Elzen
David Cope
Frances Borgmann
Giulia Gucciardi
Hilary Wisenden
Jaime Selinger
Jenssen Smith
Jhameila Austin
Josh Thackray
Malik Ibrahim
Rhys Maguire
Serena Schindell

Leaders:
Larry Jones - Junior High Youth Pastor
Michelle Lockhart - Kerr Street Camp Director