Our church has so many wonderful programs for our youth. For the 5th and 6th graders, they have a club called Club 56. This group of kids does various activities together throughout the year and at Christmas time they take stuffed stockings to the shut ins at the Assisted Living Facility that is affiliated with our church. They really do a lot of fun things and it enables the kids to get to know their church family a bit better. Ryan participated in this group and I am a volunteer. Ryan participated in this group last year as well. This past weekend we did a really neat ropes course experiential team building program for this age kid. They were really neat! They did a low ropes that they had to use their "suitcases" to get themselves across the "swamp" and not get eaten by the "water snakes." They had to figure out the best way to get across the swamp and had to guide two kids who were blindfolded. Ryan was one the kids to help the blindfolded swamp crosser. He and Ellie did such a great job! Someone had to be standing on a "suitcase" at all times. This made the crossing more difficult. They had to also pass their suitcases to the kids that were in the front of the suitcase crossing bridge.
Another low ropes they did was having to get from one tree to another without falling off the rope. They had to help each other to the different "posts" where they could be more stable. This required strength and balancing and trusting a person that you might not know very well. It was really neat to see these kids do this.
After he helped Nicholas balance, Nicholas is now pulling him while Anyssa is helping him balance at the first post.
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