Bible Club

Bible Club is on a Friday afternoon, straight after school. The mum who drives the school bus on Friday, goes to school, collects the children and then drives on to Bible Club. She stays there (with the school bus) for the couple of hours that it lasts. Bible Club is a lot of fun, with great singing and dancing, stories, DVD, quizzes and then lots of play time at the end. The children all love to go! So the driver that day has about 10 children to care for. Even the little ones who don't get collected from school like to go in to collect their bigger brothers and sisters and then on to Bible Club. It's a big excitement of the week.


Quiz Time at Bible Club


The adult that you see in the picture is Sharon Heaney from Northern Ireland, who is working with her family at St. John's University with CMS.


Some team work discussion going on.




Some singing and dancing at Bible Club.


Even the teachers like to dance!
This is Christine Salaman, who leads the Bible Club at the minute. She and her family are also missionaries with CMS, working at St. John's University. She leads singing and dancing, Quiz time and hosts it at her house. She and her family are preparing for their Home Assignment in November, when they will return to the UK for 6 months.

With there being so many children, we mums take it in turns to do this run, so that means that we have the next two weeks off, as the other mums take their turns. This works quite well for us all. The week I drive, Esther does without her nap, so she gets quite excited about that, but is very tired after it all.

This week there will be no Bible Club, as the children finish school on Friday for 2 weeks holiday, between terms. Although the school system is set up to run the British curriculum, they are using the New Zealand terms, as they say that it allows the teachers more time to get here after their school year finishes. The Christmas break is also our hottest time of year, so it's good that the children get a longer break off school. That's why we have such a short break over the British summer - we use our hols later in the year!

Look out for the 'Sports Day' blog. The boys are so excited already. It's the highlight of their year!