What's S@C you ask? Good question! S@C or Sundays @ Camp is a new program at Grace designed to serve church leaders and volunteers. Michelle and I have had many opportunities to hang out with leaders around church on Sunday mornings, and it's hard for us to hear stories of people who serve at church not being able to attend worship service as a family. It's not that they don't want to, it's that they don't want their children to have to do the exact same thing during each service, either while they are serving or while their in worship. You see, KidZone puts on an amazing program during the 9:15 service and then repeats it during the 11:15. The vast majority of Grace peeps aren't affected by the repetition, but leaders and volunteers are and it's become a problem.
Seeing this need for an alternative, we said, "hey, why not just take a group of kids and play with them during second service?" Thus became S@C. Today was our first Sunday. We had 9 kids for two hours (since we started right as the 1st service was letting out. We set up some stuff for friendship bracelets (huge success) and played a few minutes of soccer before heading down to the Pavilion. Once there, we played in the sand, hula hooped, more friendship bracelets, and sang silly camp songs. For the most part, I'd say it was a huge success. We came up with several "notes to self" like "don't forget the sunscreen," and "let's do freeze pops next week."
All in all, I'd say it's a great program, and an even better opportunity to connect our vision to Sunday mornings.
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