Breakaway Review March 4th 2009 ^{0}

Tonight was a wild night. Each week before we get started we do a fun little game. Last week Katie Thomas brought up the idea of eating worms and so I talked to a few parents who agreed to let their children eat worms. In the end the plan was for Connor Lutz and Momo Creecy to battle it out to see who could eat the most worms. One change was made when Corbin came up to me and said he wants to do whatever the game is tonight. I told him, “believe me, you don’t want to do tonight’s game.” I asked if he wanted eat something gross and he began to list off things he’s eaten, fish, bugs, worms, etc (he didn’t know it was a worm yet). I figure he was bluffing and decide to bring him upfront only to let him off afterwards. He takes the lid of and you can see the surprise on his face. Then without hesitation he picks it up and goes straight to his mouth as he begins to chew. Rule 1 of eating worms, you never chew. Rule number 2, never forget rule number 1. He got the thing mostly down and then we saw the worm again. I was so shocked and impressed all at once.

Connor and Momo battled it out with Connor finishing his worms faster than most people could eat gummy worms. The man has a future in competitive eating. The Younger group played Tennis ball Frenzy a wild game involving 50 tennis balls. Junior High and Senior High began a study following the life of Peter that will continue the rest of the school year. Tonight we looked at Christ’s renaming of Simon Bar Jonah to Peter as well as the call of Christ to Peter and his brother Andrew to leave their life of fishing to follow Jesus. I’m excited for this study and hope students will be just as excited each week to continue this study.

Huge thanks to Jake Maguire, Sandra, Scott Brown, Ubuntu Shanahan Momo Creecy and Laura for all the help they give each week. Follow link for more pics of the night of Tennis Ball Frenzy and worm eating. You must check out the worm eating.