Miami Florida

First Baptist Church of Westwood Lake

 They had a beautiful outdoor lobby.

And of course, since we are in Florida there are plenty of palm trees!

They had very large school.

There were about 270 students in 6th-12th grade.

For Sunday lunch we went to Pollo Tropical, a Cuban restaurant.

The entrance to the school was really pretty.

Peacoks roam the property. Sadly none of them had any of their long beautiful feathers :(

The school also owned quite a few horses for a camp they do in the Summer.

We enjoyed walking in the pasture petting and feeding the horses.

This horse was our favorite. He was very friendly.

He had an odd habit of chewing the fence!

Some of the horses had maskes over their eyes, we weren't sure if they could see

us, but they sure could find us when we had food :)

In the pen with the horses were two goats, they were quite annoying.

 They would follow us everywhere

This goat had no ears, it was quite odd!

Glenn caught us a tiny lizard. We enjoyed holding it.

Also on the property, they had a bird cage.

 On Thursday, the weather was so beautiful

 we decided to have Spanish class out at the pool.



Registration table...we spend alot of our time here :-)

Tube Tug

Spoke Tackle

Inside competition

The teens really got in to the War this week.

On Saturday, Janna was rollerblading,

one of her wheels went in the grass and she fell on the pavement.

She split her chin open and had to go to the ER and get four stitches :-(

New Life Baptist Church - Clinton, NC

This week we were ministering Baptist Church in Clinton, NC

We had good attendance even though Wednesday was Halloween.

World Series Baseball

There were some great testimonies and many salvations!

They had a great campfire. The fire even lasted until the next morning.

In front of the church, there were two pecan trees. They were at their prime harvesting time. So we, being resourceful, picked and shelled quite a few.

We set up a system and began cracking...

YUM!!!

As you can see, we got quite distracted that day.  

Later in the week, after a lot of cracking, we candied them.

Before...

and after

Even with the sign, we lost some to snitchers.

You can tell we're down South!

For the war nights the church rented a gym. The gym is used for gymnastic training. We had a great time trying out all the equipment, expecially the foam brick pit.

 Jessica jumping in the foam brick pit.

Janna doing a cartwheel

And of course we had to do some flips.

;-)

Anchorage

This week we had a meeting cancel last minute and we didn't have enough time to reschedule another.

Anchorage Christian Camp graciously allowed us to stay at their facilities.

They had a gorgeous lake with beautiful sunsets

Romantic : )

...and not so romantic!

Stephanie enjoyed taking pictures...

The camp had a pet alligator named Al. He has broken out of his tank before and one time he went down to the lake and swam around until they could catch him again!!!

Ouch!!! He has bitten people before.

This is a video of Al, the alligator, eating a toad we caught!

One of the camp staff offered to take us out on a speed boat ride. It was a beautiful day for a ride!

They were happy...until...

The driver turned the boat in such a way that a wave of cold water swept over them.

                                                     They were completely soaked.

We were having Bible memory outside one day when we spotted some lizards.

A half an hour later we had caught 5 lizards. So much for concentrating outside ;-)

One night they lit a campfire and we roasted marshmallows!

Outside our trailer one night we were suprised to find them gutting a deer that they had recently killed. We had more pictures, but we didn't want to gross anybody out :-\

Rock climbing was open one day as well.

Some made it to the top! 

Attempting to play pool...

We followed Miss Leanna's great example ;-)

Roller hockey was the grand finale of our week. The last night we all got together and formed teams. It ended up being a very fun and interesting time, as you can see by the pictures and videos below.

!!!CHARGE!!!

Our determined team :-)

Some people struggled on balance ;-)

You can guess who!

This first video is of some of our Fumbles and Falls!

*excuse the cheesy ending ;-(

The second video is the Grand Entrance of our players!