I just realized it’s been almost a week between posts. Sorry about that. We’d been doing great, posting almost every weekday and the odd weekend. The last week of days has been super intensive. Cheryl had her first day of teaching at TWU, and she had to spend two more evenings doing some supervisory stuff for another Nursing class. On top of that, we had dinner with our new pastoral couple (who are wonderful by the way. It feels like we have a lot in common). So by the time Friday rolled around, we could see our Awana launch date looming on the horizon.

Frustratingly, we never did get our next shipment from Awana last week, so we were really short of equipment and stuff. However, our club directors did a bang-up job of organizing what they needed to do, and despite my laptop’s wireless adapter packing it in, we managed to fill in the gaps.

First week attendance (including nursery) - 33. It’s a good beginning. All of the leaders showed up (though a few were a little late and kept us on edge). God totally bailed out our nursery, which would have been overwhelmed for sure had we not had Ed’s daughter, Candace, show up out of the blue. As I drove them home afterwards, I asked her, “How does it feel to know you are an answer to prayer?”

I can definitely see that we have a lot of room for growth. It will get easier as we get the kids into a routine as far as checking in and moving around goes. We’re also all learning to manage our space. I really had no idea how much slack to give when kids came to the gym for games time. However, again my directors bailed me out because they had taught their leaders well, how to do the five count and it worked.

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