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Hi my name is Noah Lipscomb. I am here to tell you about my
fantastic day! The first thing I did today was go to a church and paint the
walls. The second thing I did today was I went to the lighthouse shelter and I helped
paint furniture. Thanks for reading!
-Noah
I had an amazing day today. We started the day to go to a summer
school type program. I met this girl. She demanded me call her princess. So,
Princess started to work on her work book. She zoomed right through it. We
probably did 20 pages in an hour. After the first hour, he had a snack. After
snack, we all played games. I played matching / memory with princess. After the
fun game of memory, (Princess won) we said goodbye. I hated saying goodbye. Although,
I knew I would be able to see her at Kids Club.
After we got back, we ate lunch. When we finished lunch,
kids started rolling in. I kept on looking for princess. When princess arrived
I was not playing attention. I was playing Uno with the kids that already
arrived. When she arrived she tapped me on the back and scared me half to
death. We played Bananagrams and had gotten bored real quick. So, we got out
Apples to Apples. Princess is 4 years old. She was on my team. We played and
played until snack started. When snack started, Princess was very picky. Well,
after snack we started stations. When we did stations, I was put on Games. The
outside, sweaty, humid games. We were going to play Capture the Flag / Cone,
but the kids thought otherwise. So, I played on the playground with the kids.
We played out dies for a good hour and then went in.
When we went inside, we did more choice time. We played some
Uno and said bye to princess. She started tearing up and said goodbye. After
Kids Club, we went to the showers.
After showers, we talked to this person and she talked about
immigrants since she is one. After that we had Free Choice time. We walked
around town and I got cheese fries and Pepsi. A little taste of home although I
prefer Coke. Anyway, we went to the playground. We played and brought out our
inner 5 year old. After that, we had our prayer meeting. We sang songs and
learned lessons about Jesus. We had hearts to write down what we cared about
and I wrote Princess. I will miss her. At the end of the prayer meeting we had
or church group. We invited the Greenlee family (coincidence) over to our
group. We talked and had a good time. To end the night, Troy asked us to write
a story for the Blog and I volunteered. And that is basically it.
Anyway, that is Trevor Greenlee signing off.
-Trevor
These past two days I’ve had the opportunity to volunteer at
the Agape Community Christian Preschool. They were doing a VBS program that they
had stretched out to last 6 weeks. I was able to perform all kinds of
activities with the kids, such as singing songs, making crafts, and playing
zombie tag around the playground. One of the highlights of my week was seeing
the adult workers at the preschool and witnessing how much they cared about the
kids. I later learned that several of these children had absentee fathers and
unstable home lives. The women working there explained that their goal was to
be the strong parental figure that these children need. This led me to reflect
on the impact I could be making back home. I thought back to how much of an
impact my parents had on me and how without their support I would not be the
person I am today. This helped me to realize how much of an impact these women
could be having on the children I had played with today. I currently work at
the Fishers YMCA as a child care aide and knowing these children’s situations
helped remind me that I’ll never know how stable a child’s home life is.
Witnessing these women’s love has made me strive to make a conscious effort to
show love to the children that I work with every day because I’ll never know
the difference that it can make.
-Hannah
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