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Our church offers children's choir on Wednesday evenings during the summer.  Katherine and Sebastian participated this year. Here are some clips from their musical.

Colossal Coaster World

BBC Children's Camp

In June, Katherine was off to children's camp with our church, BBC.  The theme for camp was Fear Less and Psalm 56:3 was the scripture reference.  Dr. Jason Lee, former professor at SWBTS, current dean for the Cedarville University School of Biblical & Ministry Studies, & former member of BBC, was the camp pastor.  Jarryd Foreman was the camp worship leader. 

Hannah, Katherine, & Mackenzie

My precious girl, Katherine Grace

Gathered to pray before loading the bus

Loaded & almost ready to pull out

The group pulled out Monday morning, June 24th, and returned Thursday afternoon, June 27th. 

I was thankful she had the opportunity to attend camp and thankful to have her back home on Thursday. 

Royal Ambassadors (RA's)

Sebastian is involved with Royal Ambassadors at our church.  RA's is a missions discipleship for boys grades 1-6. 

 This year the boys built sail boats.  At the end of year they had the opportunity to race them.

 Sebastian also attended a RA camp out, where he went fishing for the first time.  He caught eight fish!

Children's Bible Drill

 Katherine participated in Children's Bible Drill this year at our church.

(Children's Bible Drill helps children in Grades 4-6 increase in their knowledge of the Bible and in learning how to apply the Bible to their lives. Children's Bible Drill is made up of three cycles of verses and key passages that rotate over a three-year period. At the end of three years in Children's Bible Drill, children will have memorized the books of the Bible and 75 Bible verses. Children will be able to locate Bible books, verses, and 30 Key Passages.  * Taken from FBC, Euless /Bible Drill) 

She was required to memorize the books of the Bible, 25 Bible verses, and 10 key passages.  In March, she competed in our church's competition and was required to score at least 12 out of 24 points to qualify for associational competition, which she did.  At associational competition she was required to score at least 17 out of 24 to qualify for state, and she scored 20!  At state she once again did great and received an Excellent Rating for scoring 21 out of 24 points.  Wes and I are so proud of her and all her scriptural memorization. 

~The picture above is the group from our church, BBC, at the state competition at FBC, Euless.

Birchman's Amazing Wonders Aviation Musical

Clips from our church's vacation bible school musical.

Enjoying Birchman Baptist Church

*Also posted at The Ramblings of a little Debbie

Wes, Katherine, Sebastian and I are enjoying our Birchman church family.  The kids have made friends and are involved in Sunday school,  RA's (Royal Ambassadors) and GA's (Girls in Action).  Sebastian is learning the RA Pledge and once he's memorized it he'll earn his vest.  The first night he attended the class was building race cars.  An older boy (who turned out to be in Katherine's Sunday school class) helped Sebastian build his race car. Sebastian was so excited when I picked him up that night.  The next week his class raced their cars.  He won his first race and lost the second, but he had a great time.

Katherine is enjoying her GA class too.  In October they studied how God tells us to help the poor.  She learned about the ministry of a WorldCrafts^SM artisan group in Southeast Asia. She also discovered how she can make a difference through WorldCrafts.  Her GA class hosted a WorldCrafts party in December where ladies of the church were invited to come and learn about the WorldCrafts vision and purchase handcrafted, fair-trade products from artisans spanning the globe. The girls provided the snacks. 

Wes and I love our respective Sunday school classes too.  God has used the ladies in my class to teach me so much already.  God is convicting, challenging, growing, and molding me.  Some weeks it's hard to hear, but oh what a blessing when I receive it!

Last night was Christmas family night at Birchman and it was such a blessing to see our pastor & his wife, Dr. Bob & Mrs. Deborah Pearle, and our Minister of Worship/Music & his wife, Philip and Angela Griffin, host the children up on the platform where they sang Christmas carols; Deborah Pearle read We Believe in Christmas by Karen Kingsbury; and  Dr. Pearle closed with having the children help him build the manger scene while telling them about Jesus' birth.  It was evident that the Pearle's and Griffin's adored these children and once again gave me another reason to be thankful God brought us to Birchman.

Sebastian is the kid in the blue sitting in front of the monitor.  Katherine is sitting next to him, but you can't see her.  She's in front of the girl in the red.