http://life-mission.org/blogs/celebration Joining together in the Kingdom Celebration. Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:29:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This Friday we played a few games that rely heavily on teamwork. For the first, we had to all sit in a circle and all stand up at the exact same time without using our hands for leverage.   The second game was a conveyor belt. We had people line ... http://life-mission.org/blogs/celebration/teamwork/ This Friday we celebrated April Fool's day. Everyone dressed up and we had a fun time playing games and fellowshipping. http://life-mission.org/blogs/celebration/april-fools-friday/ For this year's Harvest Party we decided to do a science fiction theme. The week before we carved science fiction pumpkins to display at the party. The teens made the decorations: planets and a huge AT-AT Walker made out of spray painted cardboard. Everyone dressed up in science fiction themed ... http://life-mission.org/blogs/celebration/harvest-party-07/ This year we decided to make our annual Harvest Party a space/science-fiction theme. With the party being only one week away, we made our pumpkin carvings space themed as well so we could use them in the decorations!   We broke up into teams of twos and threes and started carving away. ... http://life-mission.org/blogs/celebration/pumpkin-carving-07/ Lately the kids (and some of the adults) have been playing different sports after dinner and before celebration night. This past Friday's game was football. These are some of the pictures that were taken during the game. http://life-mission.org/blogs/celebration/game-time/ This year we started a new Community tradition: Celebrating the seven days of Creation. A small group, of about five of us, took the day of Creation that coincided with the week that we were in of the Easter season (which is from Easter until Pentecost). This celebration night was ... http://life-mission.org/blogs/celebration/creation-night/ In March we held our 8th Annual Bake Off. This year it was an International Themed Bake Off. Each family picked a country to represent in their skit and desert. Some of the countries that were chosen were: Poland, France, Germany, England, Ireland, Nigeria, and Brazil. The night was filled ... http://life-mission.org/blogs/celebration/bake-off-07/ For Academy Night we had the students share what they had learned in their first half of the school year. The nursery children recited several poems and Bible verses. Andrew, who is in preschool, showed us how he is learning to read. Leah, who is in first grade, read to ... http://life-mission.org/blogs/celebration/academy-night-07/ We had a medieval theme for this year's harvest party with some creative decorations including a large brick wall made out of sheets of paper and paint, two towers, and two cardboard knights. For each harvest party, we are formed into several groups ahead of time and collaborate to come ... http://life-mission.org/blogs/celebration/harvest-party-06/ This celebration night was our annual pumpkin carving event! We were all assigned teams of people to work with and planned our designs ahead of time. Then, we grouped together, put our designs on our pumpkins, and started carving. For those too young to wield a knife or carving utensil, we ... http://life-mission.org/blogs/celebration/pumpkin-carving-2/