Following the welcome we took some kids to the 1$ kids movie at Green Hills. That was where I had my 1st incident to deal with. A boy had fallen up the escalator and cut a deep whole in his knee. I immediately placed him on a bench and began trying to calm him down and clean of the cut while waiting for Dan to come and pick him up. After that the day was relatively calm as we then returned for a bible story and games about Moses and Joshua and the capturing of Canaan. A group of kids from a church in Manchester (TN) came and told the story then had a word search and a horn for them to decorate, followed by acting out of that story. The theme was Run to win and to do that you must trust God, obey God, and follow God.
Although the welcome I had surprised me at the beginning, I began to realize how connected I had already became with the kids. I missed them dearly during my 3 weeks away, and even had 3 kids calling me their mommy and hanging on me all day along with many other kids who would come over randomly and ask me to play and hang out with them. It was a great day, and left me exhausted beyond excited for the next adventure which would be an outing to Wave Country on Thursday.
Therefore, since we are
surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off
everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us
run with perseverance the race marked out for us,2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
~Hebrews 12:1-3
