What a glorious day! Our first Country Fair Jubilee was wonderful. The weather couldn't have been nicer--low 80's and a clear sky. I thought later how the day was a taste of what heaven will be like. Everyone worked together, laughed, spread the hospitality of Christ--and worshipped all day.
The brand new pavilion on the hill poured forth praise music all day thanks to the efforts of our very own Praise Team and OBCA past and present students.
The food booth seemed to be the favorite place to work--they all had so much fun no one wanted to take a break! Even Saige got to be a part of the action!
The only sad part of the day was when Dawn Hauf, cut her finger badly trying to dislodge some ice in the snowball machine and leaned forward with her hand inside and accidentally turned on the machine. Eric and Shawn were on duty at the First Aid Station and got her cleaned up and bandaged and sent her off to the hospital. She received many stitches at Upper Chesapeake and has had to have further follow up at Union Memorial's Hand Unit. We were all happy that her finger could be saved, although it may have some deformity and lack of feeling. However, this event was one of the few incidents (Sofie gave them a little excitement and someone got a bee sting) that kept them distracted from the real work of being silly.
The cotton candy machine was a favorite attraction. It was amazing how well everyone figured out how to use all these unfamiliar appliances. Julie Ford became the expert at cotton candy.
We also had a popcorn machine (here being used by Andi--her newly decorated finger sparkling--but protected by latex gloves!), funnel cake (manned by CrossCurrent), hot dogs, and some fabulous chili made by Bill Hayes.
There was a moon bounce, dunking booth (a favorite activity was "dunk the principal") where even the kids volunteered to be dunked, enjoying the cool water. There was a water slide, games, puppet show, face painting and crafts--the whole works!
Caitlin, Abby Bynion and Gwenyth helped Marcella and me with the crafts. It was not a busy booth--we were in the back of the tent with the face painting and rubber ducky game so I'm not sure everyone knew were were there. After a while the girls went off to have some fun at the fair but they were a big help in setting up the crafts and helping little ones.
It was a very relaxing day even though we were working. The crowd was moderate (about 200 people outside Open Bible--we probably had about that many again of Open Bible members) so there was lots of time to relax and visit with one another.
At the end of the day we enjoyed a lively praise time. The Christian band, Sum of One, led us in worship and lots of fun. We went home very tired but invigorated at the same time. The next day in our worship service (one of our largest turn-out for Sunday morning) you could feel the new excitement, almost electric. It was like a revival had taken place among us. God was good and was glorified on that day. Makes me look forward to the Kingdom in a new way.
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