Up all night at the Overnighter!

The kids in RIOT and their friends had an overnighter on April 4th. Here is the night by the numbers

• 21 kids ages 9-12
• 4 adults
• 2 "amped" up teenage chaperons
• 14 pizzas
• 48 cans of soda pop
• 4 teams that went on a treasure hunt
• 1 sticky game that involved 11 tubes filled with jello!
• 72 balloons (25 filled with water!)
• 21 wet behinds (when they sat on the balloons filled with water!)
• 2 games of dodge ball
• 2 injured feet (not belonging to the same person)
• 3 people that had ice packs on some part of their body during the evening
• 42 paper airplane launches off the sanctuary balcony
• 2 movies
• 14 crazy hours
• 1 kid that actually slept

RIOT Report - Roll away the stone!

The arrest... Why did they bind Him with rope and take him away. Did they really think that rope could hold Him?

Jesus goes on Trial...

"What is a trial" I ask

"My mom watches Law and Order, and they have those in court" one answers.

"when you are arrested and you prove you did not do it." another says

They tried to charge Him with a crime. They tried to prove he was guilty...but He was sinless.

Crucified. Jesus is whipped and beat. We scrunch our shoulders and squint our eyes as we cringe of the thought... We imagine the hammer...the nails. We know the end of this story but we try to think of what it is like if we didn't.

3 days in the tomb...

"Why was the stone rolled away?" I ask.

"So Jesus could get out!" one says.

"Nope. Don't you think Jesus could walk through stone if he wanted to? He did not have to move the stone to get out. " I say.

" The stone is rolled away so they could see it was empty." another says.

Ahhh, yes, so we could see the empty tomb. Let us roll away our stones to see the empty tomb.

Victory!

Jesus was rejected by Pilate, by the crowd, by the scholars, by Judas, by many...Do you accept or reject Jesus? If you accept Jesus how can you show it? Leave a comment with your answer.