KIDS CLUB day #4 has just finished ...

    and it is amazing ...

    You have been praying for kids and 450 + have shown up at The Neighborhood Center, in fact we fed 530 people yesterday 

• the morning program is wall to wall kids in our new huge auditorium ... we sing worship songs and this year our special guests are Bomb Pop and Chaco Taco, Kids Club superheros who we call The Paletta Men!  They have the funniest routine and an arch enemy, darth veggie -- each morning they play games with the kids and just today, one small boy who mostly speaks spanish, pulled his tee shirt over his face, ran around the auditorium and said "I am the Paletta Man" with superhero arms in place.  Most of you know that palettas are ice cream ... though there is alot of fun you cannot believe what it sounds like when 400 kids are singing beautiful songs to the Lord.

• our classes are packed with important small group time, Bible lessons we ardently pray over, and projects that go along with the stories.  Some classes are huge, like my class 6th grade English which has 70 kids.   The last two days have been powerful with lessons that bring some kids into clear awarenesses of truth ... each teacher or work crew will tell you that to reach each kid individually is our goal ... meanwhile, each day kids are memorizing scripture, reviewing lessons, asking hard spiritual questions and learning to pray

• field trips have taken kids to the firestation, humane society, a specialized heart center, a hospital, the Bank One Ballpark, Phoenix Little Theatre, a grocery store, an Arizona dairy, a specialized gymnastics center ... just this week alone
• other recreational  activities have found us swimming, roller skating, bowling, doing something called a Mall Crawll (where you find funny people in a mall for points, and a huge park day where we used bikes from our Barrio Bikes ... did I mention lots of swimming ...

You have been praying for our 70 work crew -- they are hard working, tough, focused young people ... they are tired, but not beaten down, and according to one of their leaders, really being impacted by all they are learning and many are revealing their preparation for serving the Lord this way ...

    we are particularly encouraged because some of our own home grown leaders are now showing great creativity in their leadership -- two days ago they produced a drama for one of our stories ...

they work from sunup to sun down -- keep praying for these ones who are called of God and are serving with devotion ...

•     pray for the ones who are renewing their commitment to Christ wholeheartedly
•     pray for the ones who are learning new lessons and are overwhelmed
•     pray for the ones who recognize their leadership roles
•     pray for the ones who are struggling to love their team members

    Please pray for Lake Day tomorrow ...

 Nothing is more wonderful all year than going to Canyon Lake each year with all 500 of us.  Yet, it causes us great concern for the safety of children, our vehicles and boat drivers. 

•     Pray for the day, its memories and beauty
•     for each child to be protected
•     for those that plan on being baptized, professing their faith

We can't wait to report on this amazing day --

• Please keep praying for kids and their personal understandings that give hope, joy, freedom and life in Christ

• Please keep praying for each staff and worker for strength, patience, love, insight, and discernment
• Please keep praying for our vehicles and the miracles that they are

By the way, I forgot to tell you ... the miracle of our playground arrived right before Kids Club and we love it all day long ...

Your love and intercession is known in this place ... it sustains us. We have had vehicle problems, sicknesses, lost kids, Canyon Lake almost canceled, and relational issues of all kinds ... yet, what is happening here, makes any difficulty make sense.  God is working here ... i can't wait to continue to keep you posted!

We love you,  Kit