Sarah and summer...

This should be my last post from this past summer.

I had to share about Sarah's missions trip that she took at the end of June. I would have shared on this sooner, but we just got the pictures from our children's pastor.

It was actually a home missions trip. The children's pastors from a church in North Carolina that we are connected with came up with 5 of their kids and teamed up with our kids for a week of ministry. The trip was for kids in grades 3rd-6th and there were 21 kids total.

They started off with some team building, getting to know each other and training on Sunday afternoon.

On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings they ran a VBS at our church campus in Washington Township.

Waving families in as they drive by.

A lot of fun and games.

All the kids had a part to play in the VBS from being a part of skits, helping with games, making kids feel welcome, handling puppets and praying with kids at the altar time.

The Crew.

On Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon they went to a nursery home and spent time talking with the residents, doing some skits and singing to them. This was Sarah's ministry highlight for the week.

On Wednesday night the team put on a carnival at our church with games, bounce houses, prizes and cotton candy. It was a beautiful night and there was a HUGE turn out.

On Thursday they spent the day at a school for disabled children and had ministry time with them as well as just having fun.

Friday they had their free day in New York City. They visited the 9/11 Memorial, Toys R Us, M&M World, Time Square, rode the subway and went to see Mary Poppins on Broadway.

Sarah loved her week, she still talks about things that happened and the friendships that she made with the kids from North Carolina. She was exhausted by weeks end, but all the hard work was well worth it. Jason and I believe it is weeks like these in kids lives that help them to grow as individuals. It is stepping out of their day to day lives, taking them out of their comfort zone to share kindness, love and just showing others that they matter. I know it impacted Sarah.