Category Archives: North Grand Villas
Spring Break
We had a blast over Spring Break out at Cathy’s Pointe last week. Most of our families can’t afford to go on vacations during the week, and as a result the kids are bored and are in desperate need of something to do. My friend Jeff Parsons, who runs Mission Amarillo, brings in youth groups […]
Christmas Parties
It’s always fun to end the year with our annual Christmas Parties at both properties. We eat way to0 many chicken nuggets, sing songs, read the Christmas story, and have a wonderful time. This year, an amazing home group from Paramount Baptist provided us with a bunch of gift bags to hand out all the kids at the party. So they were […]
I was blind but now I see
We talked about Jesus healing the blind man. What better way to prepare for the story than blindfold races? We made teams of two. One partner was blindfolded and led only be the voice of their partner – no touching. The kids raced to a designated point. It was pretty funny, and no one was […]
Wild and Crazy Kids
Another photo of the week – the kids at the North Grand Villas were bouncing off the walls on Thursday. And there were a bunch of them!
Back to School Outreach
We handed out around 140 backpacks filled with school supplies for our annual Back-to-School Outreach in August. We did things a little differently this year. We wanted the families to make some sort of contribution to their school supplies to give a sense of empowerment and ownership. At the same time, we still wanted to […]
Our Wild and Crazy Summer
Carey Baptist in Childress spent the last week of June at the North Grand Villas. They had so much fun that their youth decided they wanted to come back. So they did in July. This was pretty cool. The brough a group twice the size as before and really built on the relationships they had […]
Summer Fun
It’s been a busy few weeks around Mission 2540. We had a couple youth groups doing weeklong fun the week of June 11, another group last week, and one more this week. I figure I’d post a few pictures to show you all the fun we’ve been having. The week of June 11, my church’s […]
Back-To-School Outreach
The lack of blog posts recently is due to the fact that we just finished handing out backpacks and school supplies to around 220 kids at the North Grand Villas, Cypress Creek Apartments, and several places in-between. Thanks to all of you who gave, shopped, or helped hand out supplies. I definitely couldn’t do […]
More Summer Fun at NGV
Last week, a great youth group from Carey St. First Baptist in Childress came up to help us out at the North Grand Villas. Their pastor, Randy Wilson (the father of my good pal Jody), and his wife Becky brought 13 youth ready to play and run and have fun in the heat with our kids. […]
The Battle of Jericho
We’ve been studying the Old Testament during our Bible Studies at both NGV and Cy Creek this year. Last week, we discussed Joshua leading the Israelites into battle with Jericho, and the march around the wall. To reinact the story, we built walls using bricks made out of brown paper sacks stuffed with newspaper. It […]
