We’re back from three Spring Harvest weeks in Minehead, tired, but happy.
On weeks one and two, Kay was the special needs consultant – a very varied role in many ways! The highlight was to see youngsters with special needs sharing their testimonies of how God is working in their lives. Something that helped Kay to see why she does what she does. Steve was part of the team too – helping out where Kay couldn’t manage omni presence.
On Week three, we were running Whizz Kids, where we registered a lot more children than we were expecting. After some hasty re-planning, (running from from plan A all the way to plan G through out the week) the kids had a great time learning about God and having fun at the same time.
It was a huge challenge coping with the influx of children, but we had a superb team, and the wonderful, supportive help of the admin office on site.
It would be possible to write and write stuff about Spring Harvest, but we won’t. Do look back over our tweets and the Spring Harvest tweets, and you will get a flavour of the event.
In Whizz Kids we had an hour devoted to praying – the children spent 10 minutes at various prayer stations. The prayers and questions were amazing, showing a deep understanding, and questioning minds….. far beyond the understanding that many credit them with. We hope to put some photos on here later of some of those questions.
It was our thirteenth year of running Whizz Kids at Spring Harvest, and it will be Kay’s last. We will both still have oversight of Whizz Kids because we are general directors of Children Worldwide, but Kay will no longer do the day to day running of it. Steve will remain as deputy to the new coordinator – Sarah Covington.
The team were so kind in saying thankyou and goodbye to Kay – one of the Children Worldwide members (Thanks Helen!) put together a year book stuffed full of lovely comments and memories from Whizz Kids volunteers past and present – something to treasure!!
Unfortunately, the way our diary is working at the moment, we don’t have time to take much of a break to recover. So please pray for supernatural strength to do what we need to do in the next couple of weeks – you only have to look at our diary page to see what we are talking about! It may look as though we have had a week off, but we have been using that time to write reports and prepare for the week ahead (As well as answer a mountain of emails!)
Meanwhile – Here is a comment left on the blog by a parent:
“Just want to say a huge thank you for the brilliant time my daughter Bella had at WhizzKids. She has loved every day. She will be 8 next year so this was her last time with you guys 
Keep up the good work and may God continue to bless children through your ministry. Huge thanks to you and all your team.”