West Side for Jesus

For today's Sabbath afternoon outreach, SAU went downtown Chattanooga to the projects to play with the kids! We went out into the middle of the nearly empty complex and just started playing...football, soccer, jump rope, and it wasn't long before we were surrounded by an abundance of the cutest children!

Here are some of my favorites :) And my apologies if you saw earlier posts that weren't finished yet...I was experimenting and getting my newest skill on: bigger pictures! Huzzah ;-)


Getting organized... Four full vans went out and about 60 students were involved with either the kids or prayer ministry.

Sidewalk chalking was a hit :)

Adrienne's hair was tied and retied in abundance (even by little boys):-P

We gave out pudding and vanilla wafers for them to snack on while they listened to a story.

Riding on shoulders seemed to be the highest form of attention...and the highest in demand.

Almost as popular as shoulders were the cameras...they LOVED having their picture taken! As well as becoming little photographers themselves :)

And as all things must come to an end, it was darling and heartbreaking when I overheard a little boy wanting to come home with us and gently being told he couldn't :(

All in all, an awesome afternoon!...to be followed up by a very short-lived participation in our annual All-night Softball Tournament, haha. What can I say though, it was fun :)