Today, after 5 months of being PIrates (both here in Cambodia and back at home in Australia), the end of the Pirate theme has arrived! (Our Kids church team back in Australia will appreciate the significance of this….)

Actually, its sad to say farewell to the pirates. The kids here have all loved singing ‘Are you serving Captain Jesus‘ each day. In fact, while we were going around the island out in the province last Saturday, 3 of the kids from the Holiday program together with our kids were singing the entire song as loud as they could while being driving around in their tuk tuk through the villages…actions and all!

Over the past weeks, we’ve all had so much fun playing lots of games, acting, face-painting, and hearing from the Bible about a treasure that is better than gold or silver. With Captain Bunny becoming a Christian today, there were celebrations all around.

Being the last day for Pirates,  the kids all enjoyed playing ‘Choose your treasure’ for the last time where they could all go home with a piece of Danielle’s treasure that she bought for our Holiday club in Australia back in April….Thanks Danielle! (BTW, we’re so excited to hear about the safe arrival of your girls. Praise God! Hope you’re all going really well!)

We’ve really enjoyed teaching the Youth too. They have been very obliging and keen to do all the crazy things we ask them, like eating through milo, jelly, weetbix and blowing out flour to find memory verses, building tall towers using straws, marshmellows and boxes for the tower of Babel, putting together our Bible overview pictures each day after singing our Bible overview song, actions and all…and the list goes on and on. Thanks to Mike Dicker for all your ideas for Youth group, they love them over here.

It’s amazing how we can all enjoy hanging out even without a common language. It certainly helps that we see the youth 6 times a week. The football matches have been a great way for us to do something social too.

Well, next week, we start with our Superhero theme at the Kids Program. It’ll be interesting to see how that goes. I think we’ll need to educate the kids on some of our more recent superheroes. Not so sure they’ve ever heard of ‘Silver surfer!’ Well….we’ll see how it goes!