This morning I am thinking back to our first SummerSalt event last night. SummerSalt is our summer event schedule for families, and last night featured Ultimate Air Inflatables. The threat of rain forced us to a change of location from the park down the street into our church building. You wouldn’t believe we could get four of those giant inflatable units, including the 80-foot long obstacle course, into our building, but we made it happen!
And “we” is the operative term. Awesome events like this don’t happen without “Ultimate Volunteers.” Some of them are behind the scenes. You never knew it, but Aaron North, Mitch and Grant Howard, and Reagan and Miles Hoezee were at the church hours before the event, moving hundreds of chairs out of the way to make room for giant air-filled fun. Some of those guys stayed late to help set things up again also, some 6 hours later.
And then we had more than 20 volunteers on hand during the event keeping kids safe, cheering them on, welcoming the unchurched and other first-time guests, and spending time relating to them. WOW! Thanks for all your time and energy devoted to building the Kingdom of God. I appreciate you! (Pictures to come soon….)
