Navajo Nuggets: April 6

Last week we had a junior-senior Bible class from Redwood Christian School here on their “missions trip.” What an awesome group of young gentlemen and ladies! Nineteen exuberant teens spilled out each morning willing to serve in any and every capacity. They made excellent construction progress at the Hilltop House, which will serve as a dorm for work teams and as a Retreat Center for small groups. In addition, we had several of them attached to us at Hilltop helping in the classroom, making bulletin boards, and bonding with the children at recess. They had difficulty teaching the children that there are actually rules to the game our kids call “soccer,” which is played during recess here with three balls and no rules.

The kids loved the face painting.

New friends.

The group was totally responsible for the Carnival//Open House this week. They built and manned the booths such as face painting, obstacle course, donut challenge, beanbag vs. Goliath, and string the cereal. The most popular, by far, was the cakewalk. Everyone wanted to win something sweet. Over a hundred turned out for this event, and at least one new family enrolled for school. We hope many others will become interested in Hilltop Christian for their children. We plan to offer grades pre-school through sixth in the fall.

Look at the cake he just won!

He takes aim at Goliath's head.

We're making a cereal necklace.

This week sped by because we had so many practices for our Easter Program, Easter Praise Parade. As always, though the practices went miserably, the program was packed-out and proceeded quite smoothly -- except when the sound man got confused about when to do the earthquake, which confused “Jesus,” so He didn’t come out of the tomb. The director yelled, “Jesus, are you alive?” Another little guy read his first and third lines, then said, “Oh, I didn’t do it right.” After the chuckles died down, he flawlessly read his three lines. The story of our Savior was clearly told and an opportunity to respond to the call for Salvation was given.

We hope and pray that you all had a blessed Easter/Resurrection Sunday! Christ is Risen Indeed, and that gives me purpose and peace.