Sunday In Review

Sunday in worship we celebrated Baptism of the Lord Sunday and invited everyone in all three services to come up and remember their baptism, taking a stone from the bowls of water up front. It was also a special Sunday in the 9:30am service - they were celebrating one year since the dedication of the permanent stage in the Family Life Center and moving to that space for worship. We had one of the highest attended Sundays in that service today as well with 326. 

After the 9:30am service the Standifer family took Parker with them to lunch and then to a Robotics Skills event at Carver Middle School. We met up with them later on at the school. Despite some valiant effort in rebuilding their robot on site before the driving and programming skills, Parker and his team did not qualify for the state tournament. 

Middle School Adventures

We've spent three nights in the last two weeks at Carver Middle School with stuff for Parker. 

Two night were for band related stuff. Everyone in beginning band had instrument testing night. Parker tried out on trumpet, alto saxophone and flute. 

His best score came on alto sax. That's the instrument he was interested in the most and the one we already had at home; it used to belong to Daryl. So now he's an alto sax player in the Red Raiders beginning band. We had to go back another night for the band parent meeting and to purchase his books as well as his polo shirt. Then he spent last Saturday morning at a music workshop learning the basics of his instrument. 

Then this past week we went to Carver for Expo Night (open house). We had free Chik-fil-a in the cafeteria for dinner and then went around to all of Parker's different classrooms to meet his teachers and to find out about their expectations for the year. The most fun was the time we got to spent in the Robotics lab (he has robotics in third period). Parker showed us the robot that his team is working on for this VEX challenge course - their first competition is in November.