Praying for Kay and Steve at Spring Harvest
Many people have asked how to pray for us while we are at Spring Harvest.
Below is the text of what we are giving out to those who receive our prayer letters:
Praying for Kay & Steve at Spring Harvest
Week 1: 3rd - 8th April:
Kay is the Site Special Needs Consultant (Kids and Adults). Steve is a VIP guest, helping Kay and doing two performance slots in ‘Skyline’ (7th April, 3.15 – 3.45pm and 9.30 – 10pm )
Week 2: 8th - 13th April:
Kay is the Site Special Needs Consultant (Kids and Adults). Steve is a VIP guest, helping Kay and doing two performance slots in ‘Skyline’ (12th April, 3.15 – 3.45pm and 9.30 – 10pm )
Week 3: 13th - 18th April:
Kay and Steve leading Whizz Kids.
Also leading a ‘marriage’ seminar on 16th in the afternoon
Specific information:
2nd April (Good Friday) is the final set up day, and this is the day we will arrive on site. (Other set up teams and head office staff will have been there a while before!)
2nd-3rd : Kay will be checking venues for accessibility, meeting with the children and youth special needs teams, Training the stewards and speaking teams on dealing with those guests who have additional needs, and making sure everything is in place for those guests.
Kay also has responsibility for mentoring the special needs volunteer teams in the youth programmes for the two weeks.
Guests start to arrive on 3rd April in the afternoon – This will be Kay’s busiest day. Changeover day on 8th April is also a very busy day!
Kay’s work is very varied over these two weeks:
Talking with parents of children with additional needs if their child isn’t coping/settling, making sure children’s specific needs are addressed, advising special needs coordinators in children and youth venues, Making sure adults that need additional support in various venues are helped to access the programme (Access, induction loop, signers, large print words etc, etc) Basically – if a child or adult had an additional need, and are having difficulties – Kay is the person they speak to.
The ability to be in three places at once would be very useful – that’s where Steve comes in! At the end of each week she has to make sure reports are written plus noting ideas for next year.
Whizz Kids Programme on Week Three:
There will be a total of 41 people on team. The majority of the team have never served on a Whizz Kids team before.
The children we have are aged 4-7 years old (Only 4 year olds who have been at school for one term)
The team arrive at lunch time, and we start registering children at 2pm until 8.30 pm. We also need to train the team during the afternoon. Because of the cost of hiring vans, we can’t get the van to site until after 2 pm, so set up is going to be quite stressful!
The first children’s programme runs on the 14th.
Timings are: on 14th- 17th
7.30 am – Team prep, set up, devotions, rehersals etc.
9.40am – 1pm – The programme is running, but the last child is usually on their way by 1.15/1.30.
We then have to pack up the venue and have a debrief, then get to lunch by 2pm….. It’s quite tight on timing!
For the team, the afternoon is free, but various team are expected to do babysitting in the evenings. Kay and Steve are generally busy with team and programme stuff for the whole of each day.
The 18th is different: The programme runs 9.10 – 11.30, after which we have to pack up the venue, and load the van ready to go back to Leicester.
Kay and Steve will have been up from before 6 am on this last day as they have to have their chalet cleared before breakfast. With the long journey home, it’s a very tiring day, so any help with the unpacking at the Meadows in the evening would be much appreciated!