Holiday Bible Club

As you know there is a Step team in Arequipa at the minute and the main reason they are here was to run a Holiday Bible Club in the church during the school holidays (they get 7 days off during Fiestas Patrias).

The Holiday Club last four days and was a great success. Over the four days we had around 100 children which was great.

The club ran from 9am to 12noon and started off with registration and various games including balloon tennis, or if kids did not want to play games they could colour in.  After registration, which lasted half hour to give the Peruvians time to come, though people still arrived throughout the morning,  we had singing, puppets and a drama. The week was entitled El Rey Pide - The King Said. And every day featured a different king but the one I remember is David and Goalith. 

Singing

Puppets

David and Goalith Drama

After this we all broke in to groups - the Lions, the Bears, the Monkeys, the Bears and the Elephants. I was assigned to the Monkey's group and am telling you some of the boys in that group thought they were monkeys. During the group time we did worksheets on the story of that day and did some craft as well which ranged from making booklets, faces, decorating cookies and making shakers. 

Monkey's making shakers

Every day there was a snack which represented something from the story - the first day was popcorn which represented the stones David used to kill Goalith, second day was grapes as the story that day was about the vineyard.... and am not sure about the next two days sorry. 

During group time the kids were also taken into play games in their groups as it proved to be much easier that way than everyone playing at the same time as there were so many kids for our church. One of these games was the parachute game and again it proved to be a real hit with the holiday club kids. A great choice of the Step team to bring that out. 

Monkey's playing with the Parachute

After group time everyone went back into the hall again for more singing, quizzes and a memory verse. The quiz time for a little bit noisy at times as you can imagine if you have ever done a holiday bible club before - this always seems to be the favourite bit of any bible club I have ever helped in.

All in all the four days went well, the kids enjoyed themselves, the church members who were to help with the Spanish side of things enjoyed themselves as well, the team enjoyed themselves and I had a great time as well.

Click on the days to see photos of each day.... Day One, Day Two, Day Three and Day Four.