Day 115

Today was another beautiful day but I was indoors for most of it. This morning I worked on a sewing project. I would say I only have a couple more hours left and it has to be finished and mailed to its final destination by July 7th - so I think I'm doing okay. 

At 11:00 this morning, Jaide visited and we did our weekly reading. This summer we are reading through the "Little House on the Prairie" series and today we finished the first book, "Little House in the Big Woods". I read these books to my kids when they were little and I am enjoying rereading them again with Jaide. 
I had Wednesday night with the kids tonight. We had 30 kids and only 3 adults, but..... we managed beautifully!! Everything flowed just fine. One of my jobs was the crafts and it went very well. I enjoy it so much more when I can get in there and work with the kids and do "socializing". Getting to know them and hear what they're interested in or what they're doing. And it's nice because we are working with the younger kids this summer so I get to meet and know new little ones. Plus this summer we have this great curriculum. The study is on the beatitudes and each week the lesson deals with another part of the body. And....each week there is a "Gross Zone". One week we made fake blood, another week we made slime. Believe it or not the authors tie the particular beatitude right into the gross zone. Well, tonight the scripture was Matthew 5:7- "Blessed are those that are merciful for they shall be shown mercy." And we talked about using our hands and feet to show mercy to others. The story was about Jesus healing the leper - how Jesus turned around and put his hands (touched) the leper. And how we need to get close enough to people to show and share mercy with them (close enough that we could touch them). 
And then..... the "Gross Zone" tonight was a jar of pigs' feet! Mr. Russ opened the jar and put them in zip lock plastic bags so the kids could pass them around and touch them (through the plastic of course)
We had lots of squeals, but everyone took their turn and I bet you that not one of them will forget tonight and what they saw. I love when a class makes an impact like that. I love being a part of something like that. Using our hands and feet in service to Jesus will definitely be a part of their memory forever.