Elevate's End

We had our last service this morning for "Elevate," although the snow is staying up there on the stage for another series.  Yes, that's been there since 2019.  At least we're still doing different series, and varying things somewhat.  We're getting our toes back into the full stage changes though.  Immediately after the service, the cabin came down and the Rebel base is back up again.  

The series "Elevate" worked though, with lots of laughs in the skits, and some great classic messages.  There was a new one in there too, and two different devotionals, plus lots of games and just a really solid series.  We're on to "Star Wars" next, and we'll see how that goes.  Today Mom and Nana were out looking for some costuming add-ons, so we'll see if we can pull all that together.  UPS misdelivered a package for costuming, and no one ever delivered it to us.  We always make sure packages get to the proper destination, but some people get the wrong package delivered, and they just assume that it now belongs to them.  Which is in fact called "stealing," but at least they are re-shipping the package again at no cost to us.  I digress.

Madison was at the upstairs service first, the one in the main sanctuary.  She enjoyed the message from Pastor Javon, particularly the joke about the three rings of marriage:  engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffer ring.  That was an unexpected joke that she got a kick out of. But she also got the overall message too, and then served at KidPak afterwards, as usual.

After that, there was the Parent Info Meeting in the KidPak auditorium.  It was about a half-hour long, and a good bit of work to prepare, along with the small group sheet that I created for the youth groups.  Madison is a part of that group now, a part of that ministry, so she was there in the audience as I ran the slides I created.  There were about 80 slides or so - lots of info, but hopefully we came off looking prepared to take Free Chapel Youth to a new level.  I know there has been a lot of preparation and planning.  It's been an honor to be a part of it - I'm certainly behind the scenes more on this one, but playing a fairly extensive role in writing and developing curriculum.  And creating graphics, apparently.  That's a new one.

Anyway, we got home, and Mom had something nice for us to eat today.  She and Nana were out doing work in the front yard today, so they were ready to come in.  We finished our manatee puzzle, by the way - I'll have to share a picture of that later.  I was doing that while we were watching a movie with Nana - I wanted to see "Aliens of the Deep," which I assumed was a movie about discovering new creatures super deep in the ocean.  In fact, it was that with a huge emphasis on exploring oceans on other planets.  And while that was somewhat interesting, I was more interested in the actual creatures discovered at that depth beneath the sea.  Those parts of the movie were the most fascinating.  It held Nana's attention, at least. 

Madison was getting a shower, and then studying for a Spanish test.  After she was done on her end, we had a bit of a Marvel night:  we watched "Captain Marvel" and even the last episode of "WandaVision" again.  Popcorn included, of course.  And that was pretty much it for the day - the majority of it was at church, and that's not a bad thing.

Tonight we continued with the book of Exodus, and following that a bit back on the planet Batuu.  Then it was prayers, and a good night's rest.  I was reading in bed, while Maddie was setting up plush animals in front of our bedroom door for me to see when I woke up.  She sets them up in the bed, including the singing frog, before I get there each night too.  Always a prankster!