Breakthrough

Operation 62T8M20TA1.....Decode in 3...2...1.... time's up! 62T8M20TA1 is unscrambled to become Matt. 28:16-20 - the great commission. Every year, Capernwray puts on an event called Breakthrough which is a giant event like a scavenger hunt game of sorts to reach a goal. It ends the night with the gospel message for the kids. This year, we had 12 different countries reaching a goal. Some students were station leaders at the countries while others chose to be guides for the kids. I wanted to be in the country of Egypt and I got put there thankfully along with Ryan and Kyra. All week long we worked on our station. We were the creepy "haunted house" station because the kids had to enter a dark maze with Ryan bonging a drum outside and turning on the smoke machine in the room. They had to decode a laminated hieroglyphics sheet which turned out to be Arabic. Then they'd come to the dark corner where I stood and I'd stand out from the wall suddenly. I got many comments and gasps of "oh I thought that was a manican, statue, etc Nope I 'm real people! The thing that got people was the eyelashes I had on. I had massive fake eyelashes that glued on. Never had fake eyelashes on but the two nights of breakthrough, I spent 8 hours each day from 3 o’clock to 11 wearing those things! After I opened the door to the coffin, they entered the dark chamber to be scared by Kyra in a very scary mummy costume! The first night was middle schoolers coming through and we made 4 kids cry! The second night was high schoolers and we made only one kid cry and another fall to the floor in shock from the mummy. During the two nights, I was high fived and called creepy lady and pretty lady (It was the fake eyelashes). Acting the stoic statue meant I got some interesting comments like, "we should tickle her to see if she laughs." Hmmmmmm no. Typical Kiwi kids. Sunday, we had to take all the stations we had built all week down in 3 hours. Crazy! The students had church service at Capernwray but 5 of us including me had ministry teaching Sunday school. So we got to skip one hour of clean up. Joy drank her morning tea at church very slowly so we'd be late. Oh Joy!

Egyptian Costume - Hair done thanks to Sarah and makeup done by Kyra the mummy. 

Cooking dinner on Saturday with a French cook. Meg the Canadian was making hot chocolate in our preparing space - she's the one in the touque (tuke) (canadian word for beanie). 

France all decorated (This is usually the student lounge)