Spying out the Land

Extra low attendance this Sunday, due to a big Special Olympics event. Only four kids total—two mentally handicapped & two neurotypical. I don't know if this was good timing or not: We were being visited by a woman from Hong Kong who is planning on applying to the mission to be sent to take over at MLFF while we are in the US next year. So she didn't get the whole picture. Sigh.

Other than attendance, it was a good Sunday. We got our Israelites (kids) to the edge of the promised land, but could see that it was full of people (adults)! In fact, the people of the land were very tall (all the adults stood up on stools). So Moses sent a bunch of spies in to see just how good the land was. They all had to sneak quietly through the gauntlet of "giants" and head out to the balcony. While there, adults and children counted loudly to 40 (for the number of days they spied out the land) while the spies were collecting evidence of the land's fruitfulness. Then they brought it back carefully past the giants again.

Of course, in spite of this, everyone whined and complained again about how tall the people were, so they ended up being sentenced to wait another 40 years, for the next generation to enter.

For game time, we had a narrow aisle to pass through between two rows of stools, with two volunteers waving long cardboard tubes up and down for the kids to have to dodge. Our volunteers got a little too enthusiastic and one cardboard tube got destroyed! But no one was hurt and everyone had fun.

Our craft was making "giants" from marshmallows.