Project Runway: WWL Edition

Tonight at Walking With the Light (WWL) we had lots of fun using our creative side.  Tonight we experienced Project Runway: WWL Edition.  There were 9 groups total.  Each group chose a model from their team and then made a fantastic outfit out of only newspaper and tape.  Here are some pictures from the fabulous event.  Great job 9th graders for winning the challenge.

Silverwood Days

In the past we have spent only one day at Silverwood during the summer.  This year we decided to split it up and take the elementary school youth one day and the Jr. High and High School youth a week later.  Overall we ended up taking 32 youth.  We had so much fun that we never stopped to take any pictures.  The weather was fantastic for the elementary age youth.  The youth and adults spent most of the day at Boulder Beach and only ventured over to the rollercoasters for a short time.  On the other hand the weather was quite a bit cooler when the older youth went so they spent most of their day riding all the crazy scary rides.  I think a lot of the youth never even stepped foot inside Boulder Beach.  They were two great days and I can't wait till next year when we get to return again.

Jr. High Camping Trip

Well I have been incredibly busy and constantly out of town and have not had time to update the blog with the rest of Summer 2010's youth events.  So here goes.  On July 26th eight 7th and 8th graders headed to Lake Chelan State Park for four days of camping.  It was an extremely fun trip.  We spent the days swimming, boating, playing cards, playing in the creek next to the campsite and sitting around the fire.  We even left the campgrounds one day and headed to Slide Waters, the local water park.  Here are some pictures from the trip

Amazing gRace Day 6

Today was our last full day and final day of service.  The teams were split up into different shifts and sent to the Humane Society.  Team Holy Crosses got the first shift from 7-9am.  They cleaned out the puppy cages and got to take some puppies outside.  Team Neon Yellow Flying Monkeys took the dogs for walks along the Greenway (a nature preserve).  Team Genesis got to give the dogs some baths.  The youth all had so much fun and were so excited to work with animals.  Naomi was so moved by the experience that she called home to get permission to adopt a kitten which was approved.  Turns out that the Volunteer Coordinator, Erica, was the pastor's wife at Central Lutheran where we are currently staying.  Two teams then headed to Essentia a little bistro that is owned by the other pastor's wife at Central Lutheran.

Here are some pictures from the Humane Society today.







Naomi and Gracie Mo

Tonight we all headed to a Yakima Bears Baseball game to have fun and relax as a group.  We have had a long week filled with lots of service work and it was a great way to celebrate the end of the trip together.  The Yakima Bears pulled out a 10-7 win over the Everett Aquasox.



The youth had one last challenge for the day at the baseball game.  They were to find someone at the game who shared something in common with their entire team and take a picture.  This turned out to be a little harder than the other picture challenges, but the kids had fun.

Team Genesis (All are from Spokane)


Team Yellow Neon Flying Monkeys (They all like Harry Potter)


Team Holy Crosses (They all like Kettle Corn)


Tomorrow we head home and back to the final Pit Stop.  This has been one amazing trip full of Amazing Grace.  We will never forget all the fun times we have and the people that we have met.  We all were living out the Gospel this week through our varying forms of service.  I hope the youth not only had fun but grew in faith along the way.

Amazing gRace day 5

So we don't have Internet tonight so I am updating this from my iPhone so we will see how well this works.

Today we went to help with The Kid's Connection in Cashmere, Wa. The Kid's Connection is a clothing closet for youth in foster care around North central Washington. The youth went through donated clothing. They sorted based on what they thought the kids would like and what they wouldn't like. Then they had a sidewalk sale with the clothes that they didn't want to keep.

The clothing closet is free for any child in foster care they really want to provide trendy clothing for these youth so they feel like they fit in.

Diane really has a passion for foster care youth and is doing so much in her community. We felt blessed to be a part of it.






Today was extremely hot and we spent a lot of it in the sun. When we finished helping out we quickly headed to the local city pool to cool off.

The youth then received their next clue which sent them to Yakima. Along the way they were instructed to stop at the Wild Horses Monument in Vantage. Team Holy Crosses was the only team to hike to the top.






The teams decided that they wanted to eat dinner together before heading to the pit stop so they met up at a local Mexican restaurant. It was great to see the youth caring more about each other then racing to the finish line.


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Day 4 Pictures

Amazing gRace Day 4

This morning was a slow morning since we didn't need to be to our service project till later in the day.  I accidentally read my own schedule wrong and told the groups that they needed to be to Northwest Harvest at noon.  They actually were supposed to leave at noon because we weren't working until 1pm.  It turned out fine and we just hung around outside.  The boys had some fun jumping of concrete blocks while the girls sat and watched.

Today we worked at the Northwest Harvest Warehouse packaging frozen corn.  We had a lot of fun and were able to package over 7000 lbs of frozen corn that will be sent out to over 300 food banks around the state.  we learned that the majority of people who are served by food banks are youth and elderly.  Northwest Harvest also said that their purchasing power is four times what our is and that they can feed a family of 3 a complete meal for 67 cents.  I had taken a bunch of great pictures of the youth filling bags standing around a pile of corn but for some reason my memory card is has decided to stop working.  If I can figure it out I will post pictures at a later time.

When we finished up at Northwest Harvest the teams were back on the road again.  This time to Wenatchee.  Each team received a different route.  They all were instructed to take a picture at the summit and take another crazy picture somewhere else.

Here are the summit pictures

Team Neon Yellow Flying Monkeys


Team Genesis


Team Holy Crosses


Here are the crazy pictures.





After arriving in Wenatchee the girls decided to go for a hike up Saddle Rock while the boys stayed back and played some basketball.  I also took a ton of pictures on the hike but am unable to retrieve them and so I will just show you a picture of Saddle Rock so you can see exactly where the hike was.



We were all extremely tired this evening after a long day are looking forward to another day of service tomorrow.

We all experienced God grace today in many ways.  How have you experienced God's grace lately?