KidMo is a HIT!!

Well, we just finished our fourth week of KidMo and it has been a blast!! The first week was an exciting time of discovery (for both the kids AND the volunteers) and we all made it out UNSCATHED!! WOOHOO!! We have now really gotten into a great vibe and flow to the night. Both the kids and the Team Leaders are enjoying the new "small group" times, which allow the kids some more personal times with the leaders, and they get to fill out prayer request cards that the leaders pray over throughout the week. They also get to really ask questions and go through the Bible Lesson in greater detail. You can really see a change in the way the kids are acting, and I think it is because they are creating more personal relationships with the "grown-ups". We have also changed the division ages of the kids, which has enabled us to more properly divide the chaperones. We have seen a drastic difference in the kids attitudes AND volunteer energy levels by the end of the night, both on the more relaxed side of things.

I do want to take a minute and thank Kevin Murphy for all of his guidance and elbow grease in getting this new curriculum off the ground with barely any need for tweeks or changes. If you have been a part of this curriculum at all, you know the countless hours of planning, organizing, printing schedules, and setting up the gym that he puts into this. From all of us, Kevin, thank you for all the work you have done and continue to do.

Also, to all my volunteers, I cannot express how much your smiling faces and eagerness to help allow me to survive Wednesday nights. There are days it is really hard for me to muster up the strength and energy to get to church, but I know that, once I get there, I will have the support and love from all of you to make the night a success. Your prayers for energy are always felt and I am forever grateful for your support.

Church, we have a great thing going here. We need your support and prayers more than ever. I am hoping to do a major "Bring Your Friends to KidMo" night in the future, but I will need physical support and volunteers to make sure we don't over burden the volunteers we already have. Please be in prayer about potentially helping out in the future and let me know if this is something you could do. Very excited to see the level of participation and excitement from ALL the kids that come!! They love all the different parts and, most importantly, they are learning, memorizing, and applying Gods and Word to their lives!!

Please keep praying, believing, hoping, helping, loving on these kids. Their spiritual future is being shaped and I am so excited and honored to be a part of that :)

Allisen Shawver
Coordinator/ EmCee of KidMo!