{"id":5765,"date":"2018-09-21T16:37:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T16:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/?p=5765"},"modified":"2018-09-21T16:37:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T16:37:58","slug":"kids-summer-outting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/2018\/09\/21\/kids-summer-outting\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids Summer Outting"},"content":{"rendered":"

This summer we ran into a snag with our kids camp, as the camp grounds we usually rent for the time were already booked.\u00a0 Honestly we had waited to long to get started on the planning and we learned from the experience as we have it already booked for next year.\u00a0 We visited other possible places, but nothing seemed to be coming together, so eventually we decided it would be best just to do a day outing this summer and begin planning for next summer camp.\u00a0 Although this was disappointing to our kids, they were still super excited for their day outing.\u00a0 I sure do enjoy being involved in these kids lives.<\/p>\n

We had a group of about 72 kids and 8 adults.\u00a0 We crammed into a bus with many kids sitting double and drove 90 minutes to the beach.\u00a0 Our theme was “What can we Give to God”.\u00a0 We had a teaching on how we can how we can serve God with our gifts, even as kids.\u00a0 We had singing, crafts and sports.\u00a0 Their favorite part was swimming in the ocean.\u00a0 Funnest part for them and most terrifying for us as maybe only 20 percent know how to swim.\u00a0 We formed a semi circle with the 6 adults who could swim as a human barrier and all the kids stayed in a crowded group inside that.\u00a0 They were packed like sardines, but they loved it. Our bus pulled to fix his headlights on the way back and then had to off road a little to get around traffic, but we finally made it home at around 8 pm.\u00a0 When we got home we all crashed!\u00a0 It was a crazy, but great day of many memories for these kids!<\/p>\n

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Our group<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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They sang most of the way up in the bus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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When we arrived they had a great teaching<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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And a great time of singing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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They gathered around bowls to eat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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They we did crafts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Which they always love<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I had the older group and Joel’s mom has the young ones<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Swimming was next, but we didn’t take pictures as we had too much to do<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Keeping these precious ones safe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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It was a great day out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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May God continue to draw each one of them close to himself as the future church of Senegal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This summer we ran into a snag with our kids camp, as the camp grounds we usually rent for the time were already booked.\u00a0 Honestly we had waited to long to get started on the planning and we learned from the experience as we have it already booked for next year.\u00a0 We visited other possible […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2545],"tags":[448],"class_list":["post-5765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-updates-and-news","tag-ethnos360","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}