Olympics, Eggs, and Weddings!

Hello all of you wonderful people! It’s Shayla from Team Five-Alive. This week has been pretty busy for us here in Smiths Falls and Perth. We had a 5-day Supervisor visit, and two big socials to plan for Edge and Lifeteen.

Caitlyn and Ian arrived at our office on Thursday night, just before we had to leave for Edge. The social we did for Edge was the Olympics. I was almost afraid that it would be hard to get the young teens under control talking wise, but they were so into it, and really wanted to get through the games. What really helped out was that we had Tom, me, and some crew as police, and basically we kept an eye on everyone. That helped a lot with crowd control. One thing that we did with the Olympics was that we gave each team an egg that they had to babysit the whole time. Basically, in the end, the teams with their egg still whole got extra points. One team was lucky because I broke their egg by accident, so they got the extra points anyway. The whole night was bubbling with energy. As hard as it may seem to have an Edge with 90 young teens, it always lifts up my spirit for the rest of the week. They’re such a wonderful group! (To the top right is a picture of an egg that Tom, himself, is babysitting…)

Sunday was our Valentines Day Lifenight. We had a wedding reception with the speeches, flower toss, and dance. The set-up was extremely well done. We kept it simple, but nice. The cutest part was that Danica and I made bowties for the men and veils for the women. They all wore them to symbolize that we are all brides and grooms of Christ. I had a lot of fun with the dance part of the night. At one point we played the limbo song, and everybody was doing the limbo. A few people got extremely into it…a.k.a. my brother Kyle, Tom, and James. The night was just full of so much energy and it was a great time to bond with every one. (Alyssa is to the left doing her Maid of Honour speech)

On Monday night, we had to say goodbye to Ian and Caitlyn. It was really sad. I felt like I was losing part of my family…well, I was. They’re great Supervisors. Couldn’t ask for better!

Well, that’s all that’s been happening with Team Five-Alive. We’re praying for you.

God Bless,
Shayla Doucette