Pirate night on the beach

Last night the beach missions had a pirate night on the beach, we invited the kids from camp to come along and it was great to see that a couple of the families we invited came along and took part, and one of them even won the event!!! 

Day 3 ....Jesus is God

Today it was VERY wet here in Tramore, and only 16 kids ventured out to join us at camp. 

We obviously had to play our games indoors so in some ways it was better there were less kids.

We we were learning more about Jesus today and through the story of the paralyzed man we learnt that Jesus is God! (the kids listened REALLY well today too)

We decorated some treasure chests and played games such as pass the cannonball!! 

Please pray for some of the kids that came at the beginning to come back fro the last 2 days

Please pray for the energy we all need to keep going

Please pray for the lessons as we are getting to the more serious stuff in the next few days. 

Please pray that the parents will come along to our pirate party on friday morning at 12:30

Praise for safety over the last few days too 

thanks charis 

Day 2 ... Jesus is the treasure

We had 18 kids (which was a few less than yesterday...but we did have some new kids today as well.
Please Praise God for the weather it was lovely today too and so we could play outside again,
please pray for the kids who didn't come back today to come back tomorrow 
Please pray for some kids that are more difficult to deal with that we will have the wisdom to deal with them and that they will calm down. 
Please pray for the kids by name you can see their names down below
thanks charis 

the hall

games on the green outside

all the kids names 

Day 1 of pirate club/camp - The Bible is a treasure map

Day 1 is over and we all survived, the ship didn't sink yet!!!

We had 22 kids today,  a lot of kids i don't know as they are either new to club or they used to come to club in the past.  The weather was fab which was great as we could have games outside. 

I am wrecked already (i only got a few hours sleep last night with all the last minute prep)

Please continue to pray for us during the week thanks charis xx

ps the pics are of the pirate mask making we did today

It all starts tomorrow....

Please, please pray for the camp that starts tomorrow at 11:30am! I only got to meet with the beach missions helpers tonight (sun) and I think they were a bit overwhelmed by everything that I was telling them and asking them to do tomorrow (as was I) this will only work well tomorrow with your prayers and God's help as I feel very under prepared and I know the team are not prepared.
Pray for all the helpers to work well together , there are 7 from beach missions (Guia, hannah, chris, daniel, joel, richard and rosemary) and 2 from church (Marcus and Alanna),  anna from calvery church, and there are others coming from church on other days such as joan, theresa and marcus.
Pray for the kids to come .
pray for me as I teach the main lessons and for the technology to work ok.
thanks for ALL your help through prayer love Charisxx

Not long to go.....arghhhhhhhhhhh!

Hi all, the preparations for club/camp are well under way now; please pray I will get all done that I need to do over the next few days.
I have 3 out of the 5 talks done (they might still need some tweaking) and I have crafts and decorations under construction.

Please pray for the kids to come, I have sent flyers to all the kids who have come to our club in the past and the beach missions team are helping give out flyers for the club in the local estates including the one it will be held in.
I am having a prayer meeting before the club/camp starts on sun 28th from 6-7pm if there is anyone in the local area who would like to come along please do, or please pray with us at home at this time.
thanks for your continued support love charis

Pirates, Preparation and Prayer

Hi all please pray for my preparation for the kid's club that I will be running (with help from beach missions) from 29th July till the 2nd Aug. Please pray for ideas to flow and for concentration! Pray I will have wisdom as regards the Bible talks and as I put the programme together.Please also pray for contact from the centre we will have the club in as I need to ask them some questions and I can't get hold of them! We are having a Pirate themed club! see invite below. thanks for your continued prayers charis

Thanks

Hi all thanks SO much for your phone calls, texts, emails, FB messages and especially your prayers over the last few weeks. It has been a difficult time, at this stage I feel a bit numb from it all, time seems to have passed very slowly in the last 3 weeks and yet it is July and life is going on and things need to be done. I have been trying to do office work today emails, accounts etc there is always so much to keep on top of and with my move and with sharon's death I have let things slip for a few months. It has been hard to do office work when the weather is so fab but it needs to be done, and then I can focus on getting ready for the 5 day kids club which is on from 29th july -2nd aug ( only 3 weeks away) I am trying to decide on a theme at the moment, pirates or despicable me, I think despicable me would be more fun but more work please pray I will know what will be best to tackle. I am also in charge of sunday school for the summer and have that to prepare for too. thanks for your continued support and prayers charis x

Funeral

Hi all the funeral of my dear friend Sharon is taking place tomorrow in Cork, I can't believe she is gone and her funeral is tomorrow. Please pray for her husband Dave and both families as they say goodbye and for us her friends as we say goodbye too thanks charis x