Midwest LTC 2014

We had Midwest Leadership Training for Christ over Easter weekend.  It's like 4-H for the youth of the church.  Our church helps coordinate the event that takes place at a hotel in Indy.  This year, Marcus and Cale both participated in puppets, Bible quiz, Bible bowl and Bible reading.  There are plenty more events and projects that kids can do that fit everyone's tastes.  It was crazy driving back and forth both days.  (maybe next year we will stay at the hotel...probably not)  Andy was a good sport with driving and getting the kids there on time, especially on Saturday morning for the 8am Bible bowl start. 

 I love this event.  I love that the kids are surrounded by their church family and other church families.  I love that I got to see friends from a church we used to go to when we just had Marcus.  (I recommend finding the LTC near you if you are google-ing the phrase and landed on this post.)

hanging out before the puppet shows

Marcus and Cale's puppet team.  Marcus is the old man puppet up top, Cale is bottom right.  They did great!  They really only had 3 practices because of spring break stuff.  You could hear all their lines and could see all the puppets.

Kella enjoyed the show.

The next morning was Bible bowl and Bible reading.  The bowl came first, but here is Cale doing his Bible reading.  All they had to do was pick a passage of the Bible from the portion that was used in the Bible quiz.  Since this year's theme was "Called Out" and dealt with the life of Moses, there were lots of choices.  The total reading time had to be between 1-2 minutes, which isn't a lot.  Cale read from Deuteronomy 31:1-8 ( I think)-the transfer of leadership from Moses to Joshua.  Marcus read from Exodus 3:1-10, the burning bush and calling of Moses. I have to say, I signed up both the boys for this event, they did not sign up on their own.  I just thought this was a nice intro into reading the Bible in front of people, to read it in front of total strangers. :-)

The Bible bowl team.  I think our church had 4-5 teams total.

The little kids mostly just ran around the convention area while their siblings did their events.  There were usually eyes on them since a good portion of our church family was there working behind the scenes.  Here are Sage, Gabby and Kella:  the triple threat of trouble.  They were pretty cute to watch tear up and down the hallways.  They brought smiles to peoples' faces with their energy.

Sometimes, you just have to take a break.  I think Penny had brought out the M&Ms at this time.

Liam, chilling with his snack.  I really liked these chairs.  I was wondering if the hotel would notice if a few were missing?  Just kidding.  Kind of. 

Till next year, LTC!