Reigniting the soul: Spring Break @ TRM

If you're not around kids or don't have kids it's easy to forget about something as wonderful and relaxing to our soul as spring break. Although our spring break mission trip to Mexico has been moved to August, we still took every opportunity to keep our kids active & involved. Most kids at the mission weren't relaxing though, we kept them busy either with backpacking, an art camp, or making Easter crafts in an effort to reignite their soul. This spring break it was especially clear how much we rely on other organizations, churches, and individuals to re-create the path laid out for our kids. The teens backpacking went with Peak7 into the wild of the Olympics for 4 nights, more than 20 miles, and adventure that they will be telling their grandkids about. To reignite the adventurous souls of our teens we sometimes take them away from all the distractions, so that they begin to see who God is and who they really are.

Reigniting the soul often involves art, music, and dance and 10 of our elementary kids participated in an art camp all week at Urban Grace church to explore these. The kids were able to have time and space to explore art and had a lot of fun doing it! They learned break dancing, graffiti art, music, fashion design, and many other forms of urban art that speaks to them and who they are as artists.

Thank you Peak 7, Urban Grace, and our volunteers during spring break that helped our kids to reignite their souls with adventure, art, and Recreation!
More pics to come of our kids roughing it in the Olympics...