Heartland Family Adventure

This past week has found us busy with Heartland Family Adventure. It is our church's version of Vacation Bible School with a few little tweaks. It's held in the evening from 6 pm to 8 pm with dinner served at 5:30 pm. It is BYOP (Bring Your Own Parents) and it ends with popsicles on the playground.

Branden and I volunteered to be on the dinner team which meant that we were in the kitchen preparing and serving the meals. McKenna is still too little, so she went to childcare, but Madelynn was able to attend.

After dinner, we went with Madelynn to the auditorium and sang songs and learned our bible verse for the night. We also shared "God-sightings" with other families and put out our "God-lights" (little battery powered tealight candles) to remind us that God is with us always. After that we played games and did a craft centered around our verse for the day. Finally, Madelynn went into the gym for a story and the parents went into the auditorium for a little pep-talk on how to be the best faith-builder for your kids. The church's tongue-in-cheek motto for this was "You can do it, we can help!" (sound familiar?)

It was a lot of fun and I think Madelynn had a good time! We can't wait until next year!