Throughout the week I'll be posting parts of the journal that I kept while in South Dakota. Since I didn't have internet access and wasn't able to blog about the trip while there - I still want to give everyone an opportunity to read about it! This post was written on Thursday, June 25th after arriving in Rapid City, South Dakota.
We’re Here!
How long does it take to go from opposite ends of the Minneapolis Airport? About 25! Which is the exact amount of time we had after we got off the plane from Indy and got on the plane for Rapid City! The final call for our flight was made just as we came running around the corner. Sweaty, out of breath, and tired – all 15 of us made our flight to Rapid City! Everyone did a great job staying with the group and not complaining when there wasn’t time for a bathroom trip between flights.
Everyone is in bed and exhausted (don't worry ... they've been in bed for awhile now!)! Tomorrow we leave for McLaughlin after we have devotions with a Lakota Pastor here in Rapid City. They all say hello :-)
I've played softball for 21 years now ... wow 21 years - that's a long time! I'm not as old as that number makes me sound ... I started playing when I was 4 in a ragball league near my hometown in Ohio and fell in love with the game that I continue to play today!
This is such a refreshing look on the story of the Woman at the Well - hope you enjoy it!
I played soccer growing up ... and for many years played select soccer. I played for a team about 30 minutes from where I grew up - I knew no one else on the team at first, but soon developed friendships. We practiced a lot and practiced hard. Basically, select soccer meant that you were just more devoted and you probably had a better chance of making the high school team. For me, I never made the high school team in soccer - a knee injury just before high school ended that, but the time I had spent playing select soccer taught me a lot and was a great experience. I moved on to softball - playing in high school - and really haven't been around the game of soccer in about ten years.
Play-doh is simple and easy to make!
As a PreK Director I’ve come to find that there’s something that should automatically be included in every PreK Director’s job description … and that is Bodily Fluid Cleanup. In the last two years there have been times when I have cleaned up every bodily fluid known to man … in one service … sometimes even multiple times in one service. It’s something that just comes with the territory!
This past weekend I found myself in one of those situations. During one of the Weekend Services I was greeted by a panicked volunteer who had come to tell me that one of the kids had had an accident and there was “poop everywhere”. I went to the room to inspect and see if poop really was everywhere. Sure enough – there was poop everywhere!
One of the 3 yr olds had gone potty and then begun the cleanup process – which led to poop being smeared everywhere as he struggled to wipe himself. It was on him, on the toilet, on the floor, on the sink, the toilet paper dispenser, even on the bag of wipes he had found in his efforts to clean up himself, the toilet, the floor, the sink, and so on. As I ran to begin the process of calling mom and the cleaning crew our Children’s Pastor, Joe, helped me out by taking additional wipes and helping with the cleanup process in the bathroom. In the midst of all the chaos the little boy couldn’t help but tell everyone that his mommy “was going to be so proud” – he had gone on the potty!
Who can you love today and show God’s grace and never-ending love to?
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