Last week at Double Dare there were a lot of great moments but my favorite one by far was having my son Riley on stage with me for one of the teachings. Last summer my family got to spend some time with another family that is involved in children’s ministry. This family is leading what I believe is one of the best children’s ministries on the planet and they are reaching large #’s of kids. By hanging out with them Riley overhears that they get to teach 1,000′s of kids about Jesus. So Riley immediately tells me that what he wants to do, to tell 1,000′s of kids about Jesus. I then teach Riley that we first must be proven faithful with what God has already given to us then maybe He will allow us to teach to 1,000′s. So over the year Riley spoke in our AZ Theater on Sunday and he has been excited about teaching at Adventure Week. I gave him 5 topics to choose from (love, give, serve, obey, and lead), he chose “lead” as he says “of course because I am the oldest sibling and a leader around the house.” So on Friday Riley had a long awaited God given dream and desire come to reality. He spoke 2 different times (am & pm session) to hundreds of kids about Jesus and he did awesome. He spoke on what it’s like to be a Christian and a leader at a young age (he is 6). It will be a moment I’ll never forget.
After He did his thing, he prayed for all the kids & for Haiti!
The stats never tell the whole story. Behind each number is a story. So many parents, kids, and volunteers shared with me how God moved in a huge way in there life through Double Dare. So to all you who prayed, thank you. God heard our cries and kids and families lives are heading into a new direction.
Here is a great pic of our awesome host: DJ Double & DJ Dare. They are doing an awesome job leading us all week.
The “Z Team” came out and hung with us today, that was cool.
Here the Green Machine is at one of our stations as they are learning a Books of the Bible song. The song & video was generosly provided by the great people over at Church on the Move. Thanks Pastor Stephen Posey for rockin it!
Today was Spirit Day and these 2 sisters took home the cake! Well done girls.
This is just a cool picture of a girl and her Bible during the Snack Shack time.
Every day our prayer team has been praying for the kids and families, that’s good stuff.
Today was of water day and the kids had a blast. I always tell people the water slides are big but you really don’t understand how big until you see it. I want to thank Bounce Around Orlando for their generosity in letting us use the water slide today, thank you, the kids loved it!
Here is a leader getting slimed, awesome!
Here is DJ Double aka Pastor Chad with a Blue Crew child just after he slimed his leader.
Here we are singing songs as we were celebrating God.
With so many of our volunteers having young children of their own we provide free childcare for all volunteers. Here is one of our workers with my daughter, Darby. Thanks childcare workers, you are doing a great job.
Today we learned that God dares us to serve. We studied John 13 which is the story of how Jesus washed his friends feet to show how we are to serve one another.
This morning the Green Machine took home the Spirit Stick. Well done Green Machine!
Some kids playing with a giant beach ball before we get started.
Things are not looking for this leader as she is getting destroyed by slime, ha!
One of our great volunteers loving on some kids, love it!
Today we helped the kids understand why we are supporting Stepping Stones Haiti. We had our friend and the founder of the ministry come and share his heart and the story behind what they are doing in Haiti. Thank you Wilson for what you do. To help support the mission organization you can bring in a new backpack if you are on the Blue Crew or Orange Crush. If you are the Green Machine or Red Rumble then you can bring in a new pair of shoes. For sizes on shoes, just purchase shoes that would fit your child. Also please attach $5 for shipping.
Here is a student playing our Minute to Win it game called Chocolate Unicorn. He had to stack 7 Debbie cakes on his forehead, so far he is doing great.
Here is a Minute to Win it game we played. The kids had one minute to put together the pieces of a cereal box. The Double Dare twist was the pieces were covered in syrup.
Here are some teams showing their team spirit.
Some snack shack leaders showing off their skills.
Our of our leaders PJ about to get slimed.
Kids playing one of the Minute to Win it games.
One cool thing was having Pine Castle United Methodist Church come and do a “tubular worship” black light experience. The kids took tube socks and black lights and make a really cool dance routine to some fun music. The kids loved it.
Pastor Dustin teaching how “God Double Dares us to Love”.
Saturday night was a time for the Adventure Week volunteers and leaders to go over last minute details as well as spend some time worshiping our God. We had a great time being led in worship by the Pine Ridge Fellowship band youth band.
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Here is our host DJ Double & DJ Dare
My kids wanted to get slimed all week so I let them be the first to get slimed. After I planned on it and called them up they got stage-fright. So someone had to get slimed and Pastor Chad had the great idea that it should be me. So here I am taking one for the team.
Here’s our group photo:
I can’t say enough how proud I am of our team. All the hard work and team work has been awesome to witness. Looking forward to an awesome week.
Well we are just 3 days away from Adventure Week 2010. Our am session is full but we do have space in the pm session. Please keep us in your prayers as we look to love and serve our community next week. Also pray for all the leaders that we’d model and glorify Christ to the kids all week.
My name is Dustin Aagaard. I'm a husband, fahter of 3, kids pastor, and sports fan. This blog is about about life, ministry, family, and my journey in following my Lord & Savior Jesus Christ.
