SX18 - GWINNETT DAY THREE

The last day of Summer Xtreme 2018 started with a return trip to the movies!  Getting up a little later this morning, we made the final trek down to the Suwannee campus for one final day of Summer Xtreme this year.  Right away, we were on the buses and driving down to Sugarloaf Mills to their theater there, and ready for a return viewing of "Incredibles 2."

Here's Madison and some of her group in the theater, which is substantially larger than the one in Gainesville, one where all of the Summer Xtreme kids were able to fit into one auditorium together.  Meanwhile, Daddy and a few others snuck out and watched "Jurassic World:  Fallen Kingdom," which had an earlier start time - we got out just in time to escort the kids back to the church!

We got back, and there were sandwiches and meals for the kids, and because the schedule was pretty tight, we were in the main auditorium for another church service.  One last time, we had worship, Squad Battles, a message from Pastor Lance about the unlimited power and love of God, and of course, our final part of the "Heroes" video.

It was very well received, and in fact will be shown a few more times before the end of the month.  The message of Pastor Lance had a quote that Daddy typed out, and has been speaking out this series.  I've always wanted a "quote," something that I could call my own.  Many of the best quotes are already taken!  But this one is good enough to call my own, and of course it was God-inspired.

"The only thing that rivals God's unlimited power is His unlimited love for each of us."

- David Cypher

We prayed for one another, and concluded the services nicely - just in time to run outside and have another water day!

There were inflatables galore, and lots of squirt guns and dunk tanks and buckets of water.  It was tremendous fun, as is every water day we do at Summer Xtreme.  It was a little shorter, but it was a whole lot fun for everyone.  

One of the greatest parts of all is the weather - we were supposed to have some rough storms come through about this time.  They did come, but they only came immediately after the car line was done picking up all the kids at the end.  So, instead of dealing with rough weather, we had sunny skies and lots of laughs.  The forecasters missed the exact timing of this, and we were quite happy about that!

You can see Madison in the middle of it all here, in the middle of Summer Xtreme 2018.  This is the day that concluded it all, two weeks of destinations, services and lots of fun. She had such a great time, and despite the occasional frustrations with bus drivers losing their keys or odd behavior by supervisors at the public pools, everything went super smooth.  This has been the most relaxed two weeks that Daddy has ever had for Summer Xtreme, whereas it is usually quite a stressful occasion with so much to do and so forth.  We certainly do carry the weight and responsibility of making sure nearly eight hundred kids are taken care of, and we do our very best to make this live up to the name "Xtreme."  But at the same time, it was easier to do that this year, and therefore, we got more rest than we usually do.  This might be credited to more effective planning, or perhaps a greater volunteer presence.  But we give all glory to God.  It has been a remarkable, wonderful, xtreme past two weeks!