An Outing Like No Other
We had our Joyland All-Girls Outing this past Saturday at Tillman Park, and boy (I mean, girl - get it??), did we fill up the place! Over SIXTY K-6th grade girls and 20 teachers spent a total of 4 hours together, eating hot dogs, launching water rockets, jumping rope, playing relay race...just to name a few of the activities. The weather couldn't have been any better - warm and sunny - so much so that we changed the schedule a bit so that we could incorporate a massive water balloon toss that afternoon.
The next day during our Joyland large group, Teacher Michelle asked, "Did you guys enjoy the outing yesterday?" It made me so happy to turn around and see the girls beaming huge smiles and yelling, "YES!!!!" At that moment, I thought about some of the girls who came, and imagined how they would have ended up spending their Saturday afternoon if there was no outing. Maybe they would have done something fun, but most likely, they would have probably had just another normal, uneventful day. I was so thankful that, though our efforts were so meager in putting this outing together, God was able to use it to make this past Saturday a very memorable day for our kids.