A 25 Hour Day
Well My Friday started normal at 5:45 am… Getting ready for work. Unlike most Friday’s, this one promised to be over 24 hours. Like always we arrived at work around 7 am and went about our normal duties. At 9 am I drove a group of teenagers to Knott’s Berry Farm and then went back to work. I worked from 10 am-12:35 pm and then went to get my allergy shots and pick up some cookies for the youth game time at the church. At 4 pm, James and I left the church in the van I had driven earlier and met up with the teens leaving Knott’s. We headed to Portillo’s for dinner. When all of the teens had eaten their fill and relaxed for about an hour we loaded up and headed to Boomer’s. The teens drove the golf carts and mini-golfed until 10:30 pm and then we headed back to Bethel.
We arrived at the church at 11 pm and the fun really began. We played a game of soccer in the auditorium with fog and strobe lights… we played a twist on the previous mentioned game with pool noodles. I didn’t stay inside for the strobe light games since they give me a major migraine. Next we had a worship service. It started at 1 am with lots of songs and testimonies, and then Eric gave a short challenge about the mercy of God. We finished the service about 2:30 am and then let the kids loose on the property to find the youth leader who was hiding… this is fun because we have to be very quiet since it is early morning. We played 3 rounds and then we played a game with balloons in a completely dark auditorium.
The highlight of the night was playing Communist Church. The youth leaders were the communists and the kids were the Christians trying to get the hidden contraband… when they found one of the hidden items they had to give it a leader and the leader had to leave and not play the rest of the round. We played 6 rounds of Communist Church and the kids loved every minute of it. 
The activity ended with most of the kids falling asleep while watching a movie from 5:30 am-6:45 am. Since clean-up had been done before the movie started James and I left at 6:15 am. We hit our bed at 6:45 am and I didn’t get up until 3 pm Saturday afternoon… James didn’t get up until 4 pm. We had a wonderful brunch of scrambled eggs and toast and watched a movie. so basically I was up for 25 hours and then got 8 hours of sleep.
I hope you all have a great weekend!
Tags: 24 hours, Youth Activities
