I’m very excited about the holiday kids program, that we will be running for 3 days! I have high expectations about it! I really believe God is going to move and touch the kids their hearts. We have a small team at YWAM. Me and Pam, the wife of the leader of YWAM, did basically all the preparation for the program. Thinking about a theme, what kind of games, schedules, teams, time frames, supplies, food ect.
It was a lot of work but I kinda like to organise things. So I felt I was in my element. But It’s nicer to work with a bigger team so you have more input. But we succeeded and came up with some awesome games and the theme: SUPERHERO’S!
We made a schedule that started with a hour ministry. Then we had a snack break, 3 games, lunch break and then 4 more ministry items like, dance, arts and two games. During the program we had a lot of extra people that helped out as leaders and assistant leaders!
I made a club dance on the song “Superhero” from Hillsong kids. It was a big success! Everyone knew the dance in no time and the kids sang it at their loudest! I taught them this dance during the ministry. We also did a funny drama play about different people that loves their own Superhero! The funny part was that we had a Spiderman that climbed on coconut trees, a Cat Woman that loves drinking coconut milk, a Wonder Woman that is secretly the best Cook Island dancer and Tarzan that jumps from palm leaf to palm leaf with Jane on his back! But one of the girls had Jesus as her superhero! She explained why and we all wanted to know Jesus as our own Superhero! Cause He is REAL!! And wants to live right here in our hearts!
We ended the play with the prayer below and the kids repeated it as loud as they could!
“Dear Jesus,
I invite you to live in my heart and to be the superhero of my life
but also to be my guide, my protector and my best friend.
I give everything into your hands.
I trust and love you.
”
I got goosebumps when I heard and saw the kids that were praying this with full dedication! If this already happened in the first hour of the first day of the camp what more will God do! God is so good!
We had a lot of fun games and all the kids were mostly smiling non stop! The kids love food! Because of that, they really loved the donut bite game! Haha, it’s too funny to watch the kids try to eat a donut from a line blind folded and their hands behind their backs!
At the last day we organised a water play party! Woehoeee
The waterslide was the most successful of all! They had to compete with the other team! You had to make 5 rounds around a cone, then run and slide, run to the next cone, again make 5 rounds and then run back, Slide and tag the next person of your team! Everyone was cheering and screaming! It was amazing.
I would be writing forever if I would mention every game that we played and how much joy we all had. I will just let you see some photos and then you can see the smiles on the their faces yourself.
Something really special happened at the end of the program! One little 4 year old boy on my team couldn’t speak English well, but came to me. He started talking. I could not hear him loud enough, so I asked him to repeat, and he said: “Jesus lives right inside of me!” I got the biggest smile on my face!! YESSSS! He does right here in your heart!! replied: “No, not only in my heart, but in all of me, I can feel Him!” I gave him a hug and I have never felt a hug that tight before! He was so happy and thankful that he hugged me with all the strength that was in His body! It was the sweetest thing ever! Thank you Jesus for this revelation in his life and in the lives of the rest of the kids!
This is exactly why we organised this holiday program! Then it doesn’t matter if things don’t go according to schedule, or if we have some struggles or don’t know how to deal with things that shouldn’t supposed to go the way they go. Its all about you Jesus! You are in control! Make yourself known and protect the kids and the seeds that has been planted over these three days in their lives!
