JUMP. Week 1

I have been volunteering at my church's Vacation Bible School: JUMP!

Let me just tell say that my church does not mess around when it comes to VBS! They do it and they do it BIG!!

I found this video from last years JUMP! via jumpkids

JUMP 2010 RECAP from St. Louis Family Church on Vimeo.

This is my 2nd year volunteering as a group leader and I cannot get over how much fun it is.

I am like a little kid :) I know that every single child that comes has an absolute blast.

It has grown so much over the years that we have had to split it into 2 different weeks. This first week we had about 2,500 kiddos and we are expecting the same amount next week!

They expect that it will continue to grow and grow each year. Praise God!

I was so blessed this week to have the BEST little group of kids and an amazing assistant leader.

Our days consist of carnival rides, crafts, arcade games, huge blow ups to bounce in, a FUN worship and drama all about Jesus, face painting, 2 water parks, snow cones, popcorn, cotton candy, and much more!

Every single one of my kids rocked my socks off; they were so well behaved and loved on me so much (and of course I loved on them back all day!)

The little moments when they all want to hold my hand when we walk from station to station and want to sit next to me during worship and drama make it all so worth waking up early each morning and doing anything I can to give them all my energy.

I did not take my camera at all this week, but I did manage to get a couple of pictures on my phone and a couple of videos. =)

These videos are from worship/drama that we go to for an hour each day. It is a blast! The kids go craaaazy (if you can't tell! )

I could only get one video to upload... but we also had a special guest, Minista, come and rap for us! ;)

My heart is full! I'm excited to see what God has in store for us next week!