Village Bible Church || Aurora | Indian Creek | Sugar Grove | IL

On Monday, July 25, we woke up at 6 am, had breakfast at 6:30, personal Jesus time at 7 and then group prayer, worship and daily prep at 7:30 and then left for day camp shortly after 8.   That's our morning routine for the remainder of the week.

We took a group picture on the front stairs where we are staying.  The picture with more people is our team along with the students  and leaders from Harvest Baptist Church.  The picture with less people is just our team from Village.

Going into the trip, we thought we were just going to minister to the k-5 grades.  At the beginning of last week, we were asked if we wanted to run the middle school day camp for 30 - 45 students, which we gladly said yes to.  So where we had 3 months to prep lessons, games, and crafts for the k-5 grades, we had less than a week to prepare for Bible, games, arts and crafts.  Six of our team members (Steve & Robin Steekel, RJ Hallebach, Josh Nilson, Naomi Haas and Allie Free) along with 4 students from Harvest Baptist are serving with the junior high.

In the morning, the  middle school students and our middle school team worked at a ministry owned by CDC called Peaches and Greens, where they grow vegetables in a garden and sell fruits and vegetables in the store.  See the above pics of the garden area and the store.