We had a great 4th of July in Kotzebue today! After our usual morning meeting/breakfast, we headed over to the fairgrounds to set up for the festivities. The buckets were trucked over yesterday and we finished bringing over tables and chairs and such. The parade started at 9:30am and went right by the church and they were throwing Reese's, KitKat, and other chocolate stuff. REALLY good and fun. :-)
We had a new team member join us today: Jennifer Hooks. She is a 21 year old Journalism major at Mississippi College. She is a summer missionary for 10 weeks here in Alaska and she's spending about a week of her time with us in Kotzebue. She's working on an article about us and what we're doing with FBC Kotzebue. It's been fun talking shop with her.
The parade was over rather quickly and we headed to the fairgrounds. I was stationed in the conex container handing out buckets while others helped with buckets, tied balloon animals, painted faces, or fixed and handed out sno-cones. We handed out 340 kids bags and 576 buckets in an hour and a half! The festival was well-attended...hundreds were there. I even got to eat a fried snickers bar and a fried reese's peanut butter cup. Both were great! They had been rolled in funnel cake batter and were really really good.
When we got back to the church we started doing more work around the sanctuary. I helped Jamey do some electrical work and we worked solid all afternoon. The ladies worked downstairs and then went to more festival stuff. The guys continued to work in the sanctuary after supper.
Tomorrow will be a big day. Jamey is turning off the power by 9am so that we can install two new panel boxes. At 2pm we will be hosting a crafts day for the kids and we will have games at 4pm. We will do crafts and games again on Monday.
Hope you had a great 4th wherever you were!
We had a new team member join us today: Jennifer Hooks. She is a 21 year old Journalism major at Mississippi College. She is a summer missionary for 10 weeks here in Alaska and she's spending about a week of her time with us in Kotzebue. She's working on an article about us and what we're doing with FBC Kotzebue. It's been fun talking shop with her.
The parade was over rather quickly and we headed to the fairgrounds. I was stationed in the conex container handing out buckets while others helped with buckets, tied balloon animals, painted faces, or fixed and handed out sno-cones. We handed out 340 kids bags and 576 buckets in an hour and a half! The festival was well-attended...hundreds were there. I even got to eat a fried snickers bar and a fried reese's peanut butter cup. Both were great! They had been rolled in funnel cake batter and were really really good.
When we got back to the church we started doing more work around the sanctuary. I helped Jamey do some electrical work and we worked solid all afternoon. The ladies worked downstairs and then went to more festival stuff. The guys continued to work in the sanctuary after supper.
Tomorrow will be a big day. Jamey is turning off the power by 9am so that we can install two new panel boxes. At 2pm we will be hosting a crafts day for the kids and we will have games at 4pm. We will do crafts and games again on Monday.
Hope you had a great 4th wherever you were!
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Anything is better when dipped in funnel cake batter and deep fried.
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