These are our "Campus Kids." NBBC has a Campus Kids program where each Faculty/Staff member has 4-8 college students as their adopted kids for the four years (or more) that they are at Northland. From Right: Joe Everson, Kenneth Everson, Madeline, Amy Templeton, Ruth Meyer, Maggie and Jon Templeton. (Not Pictured: Kamie Miner) We had a great time with our "kids" last night. Homeade pizza, salad and Tiramisu Cheesecake were on the menu - special thanks to Tamara Prine who came and helped me in the kitchen! Funny story regarding campus kids: Maggie said to me last night, "Why do they all call Daddy their Dad?" I said to her, "Well, they are kind of adopted into our family." She said, "Oh, like 'Elf'!!" Now, if you have not seen the movie "Elf," you are missing one of Maggie's favorite and most memorized movies. Suddenly the concept of Campus Kids made sense to Maggie when she thought about it with "Elf" in mind!!!
Maggie loved helping daddy...one piece of wood at a time!
This is one of Maggie's teachers at Wednesday night Kids' Club at our church. Miss Andrea (Blaha) does a great job with the 2-5 year olds! Maggie is always full of things to tell us about on our way home from church on Wednesday night. Recently, Andrea has been teaching them about "helping those in need," and they have been praying for a missionary family. Maggie always makes sure to have me pray for that family when we pray together in the morning.
This is where Rob is on Wednesday nights at our church - Kids' Club! This year, Rob has been in charge of all of the children's ministries at Grace, which definitely keeps him busy. Our Wednesday night Kids' Club is such an exciting and unusual ministry...we have about 75% kids from the community and 25% church kids. It is awesome to see the vans pull in week after week with more and more kids from Iron Mountain/Kingsford, MI coming to hear about Christ and salvation. Last year, we ended the year with about 80 kids, so we're super excited to see what the Lord will do this year! We are also blessed with many Northland college students who come help out with this ministry on Wednesdays. We are really praying that not only will these kids bring more of their friends, but that their parents would be interested in coming to Grace as well. So far, we haven't seen too much progress in that area, so perhaps you could intercede for this ministry even now as you are reading this blog!