God's Handicraft - You and Me!

"Hi, I'm little A and I'm a tree - Ting!"
"Hi, I'm little D and I'm a rooster - Ta-da!"
"Hi I'm little S and I'm an ape - Ooh ooh!"

And so sixteen little girls went round introducing themselves at Little A's seventh birthday event last Saturday. The theme of the party was being fearfully and wonderfully made by God (Psa 139:14), and of course, the games and activities were along the line of God's creation and eventually crafting something of their own.

They had an amazing memory, remembering each other's animal double and call-sign. As a result, they had a fun time calling one another and took a long time to decide which team won. Next, they had to match some of God's amazing animals to their special properties, like the "CAMEL" should be matched to "It has long eyelashes" and the "GIRAFFE" should be matched to "It has a 45-50 cm tongue". Each team won one round, so to break the tie, the score difference was taken into account and the birthday girl's team was edged out. Nevertheless, all teams win a token prize and were more than excited to begin the last activity --- Scrapbooking!

Each girl then sat down to do up a nice acrapbook page to include their picture with the birthday girl taken earlier. After almost an hour of hard work, each girl went home happily with their beautifully decorated page and hopefully, it introduced them to this new artwork well and got them started on a new hobby.

For first-timers, these girls were really quite good, here are some of their pretty hard work:

We are all God's handicraft. Just like the verse in Psalms 139 verse 14 says, "we are fearfully and wonderfully made by God". Knowing this, would we accept whatever "flaws" we have, and find out the purpose of it, or complain that God did not do a good job? Do you think He will/can do a bad job?

And from a 7-year old guest at the party:
"But not everyone believes in God right. Then how would they ever find out who made them?"

Whether you are a Christian or not, how would you answer her?

Boat, Brains, Balls and More!

Little S and L had a poolside party to celebrate their birthday together. Although grey clouds loomed in a distance, God was indeed faithful once again and held up the grey clouds. Everyone got to enjoy the afternoon of events under the cool, cloudy shade.

For the record, this was by far the largest guest list with the widest age range for an outdoor activity party - 32 children from 7 - 14 years old! It was challenging for MFB to come up with suitable games that "must have water guns (according to the host)" and along the theme of the Battle of Jericho scenario, plus having to take into account the varying age and abilities of the

numerous guests.

MFB racked their brains and finally decided to bring the children through three battles:

Round 1 - to SPY on the land of Jericho (Jos 2)

Round 2 - to cross the river Jordan (Jos 3)

Round 3 - to find the gold, silver, bronze and iron treasures (Jos 6:19)

It was a "boys versus girls" afternoon of games. Round 1 tested the memory and speed of both teams, as the children had to memorise the theme verse Joshua 1:8-9 and the position of the wordings on the ground. Both teams were evenly matched in terms of speed and accuracy.

Round 2 proved to be a man's game. Although the girls put up a tough fight, blasting their opponents and soaking their banner with water pumps, the boys did an excellent job in surviving the never-ending water projectiles and emerged champion river-crossers. They collected 35 out of the 50 balls (points) en route to the finishing line, compared to the girls, who were a tad too focused on sailing the boat across and ended up collecting only 5.

In the final round, where the children were tasked to search for the treasures and transport them to the finishing line, the ladies were so organised and efficient it seemed almost impossible not to defeat the playful boys.

Based on battles, the ladies had won 2 to 1, but based on the points-scoring system, the gentlemen beat the ladies and were crowned the winners that day. Nevertheless, well done everyone! Give yourself a pat for surviving the 3 poolside battles!

We hope all of you had lots of fun, as much as we had planning and running the activities for you! "For the glory of God!"

P.s.: For those just reading, we're sure you can't imagine the fun we had - contact us to plan an event for you and have a feel of it yourself :)