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...a blog for the friends and family of dan, jen, worthy, william, calvin & christian

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

English Camp 2012

Finally, school has begun.  I've missed the regular rhythm of a "normal" schedule.  Most days here seem to have an irregular cadence to them.  So, I have a semi-quiet house - two kids are in school and I'm functioning on more than 6 hours of sleep.  Let's see how my memory works :)

In the beginning of July we had a group from our former-home church, Seven Rivers come to Vienna to lead an English Camp for kids.  First off, it was SO encouraging and delightful to have a group from our church here to minister to us and the kids.  We knew (almost) everyone rather well and just having familiar friends and faces around for the week was uplifting.  
Most of the Seven River peeps
They came in and ran an English camp for the local kids here.  One of our goals at New City Wien (our church) is to minister to the community outside of our walls.  This team came over to help make that happen!

It's difficult to sum up months of prep time and a FULL week of camp, but I'll see what I can do. 
We had 33 kids. Only 4 or 5 of these kids attend our church.  They were full days with lots of playing, singing, crafting, dancing, teaching and sweating. 

The kids seemed to have a fantastic time.  And all of us adults were completely spent by the end of the week. 

One of the girls that came from Florida was a very talented face painter.  Worthy seemed to get a new Star Wars face each day.  Jenny was amazing! This is Worthy as Darth Maul.

One of the very sweet parts of this trip is that one of the families that came had a son that Worthy was friends with while we lived in Florida.  It was so fun to see them get to spend time together and it was definitely a highlight of his (and ours)!  

All in all - a fantastic and blessed week.  We were SO grateful... and SO tired!

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