Hong Kong- Days 3-4

The next two days were the 3rd and 4th graders. They were probably my favorite group. They warmed up to us quickly and they paid more attention to the lessons and stuff then the Sparks did. Also, since we used the same lessons for all four groups we were familiar with the lessons and things went a little more smoothly. There was one girl (Joyce) who was really sweet. She gave us all letters telling us that we did a good job and stuff like that. It was really awesome to see that we really were making an impact on these kids because it was sometimes hard to know if you were getting through because of the language barrier.


Below are some pictures of the 3rd -4th grade kids.


This is a picture of our whole 3rd-4th grade group.
We had 75 kids.




This is Joyce and me.

Hong Kong- Days 1-2

Well, I'm finally getting around to writing out out a summary of my trip to Hong Kong.

Background: We were in Hong Kong for two weeks and ran four different camps and one games training event. We also did some sight-seeing.

First day of camp- We had 111 Sparks (k-2nd graders)! That was exciting! :) As it was our first day, we were a little nervous and apprehensive. Here we were with 111 kids to our measly 10 leaders (they did have some leaders with them thankfully.) We started the day with some stretches to an upbeat song to get them ready for soccer skills stations. That was another intimidating thing. Before this trip, I knew almost nothing about soccer and here I was trying to teach these kids how to play it. Aaah! :) It wasn't as difficult as I had expected though. The hardest thing was getting the kids to listen while I gave them instructions. After an hour of soccer stations we went in and had Zone Time.

Zone time is basically lesson time. We sang our theme song, Mission: Unstoppable (yes, our theme was a take off on Mission:Impossible), then we did a skit. Our skits were about two spies, Zach and Madison who were trying to solve the puzzle box mystery. The mystery is to "find the path to get through heaven's gate" They have several adventures from which they learn how wonderful heaven is, the consequences of sin, what Jesus did for us on the cross, what we need to do about it, and what we do after we've accepted Jesus as our Savior. The different skits were based on the colors of the wordless book. After the skit we sang some songs. The kids (and leaders) loved to sing. It was a lot of fun to see them having so much fun while they praised the Lord. After that we had our lesson. For the first lesson (heaven,) we had an interview with the "Apostle John."

After zone time we did small group time. We broke up into smaller groups (about 11 kids per group) and talked about what the lesson meant. Then we did a craft. We had the Sparks group make penny heart medallions and bottlecap necklaces. The bottlecaps that we used for the necklaces were ones that you can only find in the U.S. and we had them use the beads of the five colors from the wordless book so they could use it as a witnessing tool.

This is my group making bottlecap necklaces

We did this twice in one day because we had a five day curriculum and only two days to do it in.

Second day of camp-

We did the same thing only we decided to do regular games like duck, duck, goose, and red light, green light instead of the soccer stations.

Here are some pictures of the Sparks

This our whole Sparks group.

This is Esther and me

Nathan and Me

This is just a group of kids who wanted to get a picture with me.

They were all really sweet kids.