SQLLawman

Today was the end of an excellent conference for 4th, 5th, & 6th graders.  SuperStart is a production of CIY.  If you have a child in that age group and you have the opportunity to go, it is so worth your time.   If your church is hosting the conference it is a total blast to volunteer.  Our day started at 6:30 am at Meijer to pick up 66 dozen donuts, yes, that is 792 donuts to pump into kids to get the day started.   Believe it or not, all the donuts actually made it to the church.  There were over 1300 kids and leaders preregistered for the conference.   Then we helped get the breakfast line setup, then it was off to fun.  My wife and I ran the “arcade” room.  That consisted of 7 Wiis and a Xbox360.  All of these were connected to projectors and projected up on the walls.    Our job was to let the kids have fun.  With that hardware, failure was not an option.  We rotated every 4 to 5 minutes to get everyone a chance to play.  There was also three inflatable obstacle courses.  I snuck in there and raced our middle school pastor through one of the courses.  He won.  But I’m sure I get a re-match in the future.  Then the kids went onto the program.  It had incredible praise and worship by Yancy and a three session program focusing on being friends all wrapped around a competition by two illusionists to see who was best.  The kids voted by means of a decibel meter.  112 db of screaming pre-teens was the winning score.  It was incredible.  The CIY team were awesome people, very organized, very competent, and connected instantly with the kids.  I would never spoil the outcome, but these illusionists were quite good.  I really enjoyed their competition.  One of the parts of the day is called plug and play.  During this time, our church rented out a local skating rink and we all went skating.  We had a great time and my kids are getting better at skating.  In conclusion,  SuperStart was excellent and my kids can’t wait for next year.  So if you have kids that age and have the opportunity, it is well worth the small fee (less than $50.00 for the conference)