Lads to Leaders/Leaderettes was fun and exciting again this
year. We spent Easter weekend at Opryland Hotel and the boys participated in
song leading as well as oral bible reading. It was great to spend quality time
with so many people from our church as well as so many people from other
congregations across multiple states. They said this year the attendance was
nearly 10 thousand people just for this conference! It was packed and crowded and filled with people! We got there on Friday morning and left early, early Sunday morning to get home to see what the easter bunny had left for the boys before heading off to church.
However, the boys did NOT like all the pictures we were taking, most of which turned out like this....
Well, since our room was not ready until normal hotel check-in time (3:00pm) and the boys had an event at 2:00pm....we went to the car to change clothes :)
Because everyone knows you don't put fancy clothes on young boys for longer than absolutely necessary! Wyatt was nervously contemplating his bible verse on the walk back in. Isn't that the sweetest?!
This was our group of PreK-2nd grade boys that "competed" in bible reading. They don't actually get judged and ranked in any of the competitions until 3rd grade, so everyone in prek -2nd gets a certificate. Our boys did Great!
Wyatt read Matthew 7:12
And Will read Matthew 7:13-14
For Song Leading, here are some of our prek - 2nd grade boys. Again they did great! All these boys have been practicing in front of our congregation on Wednesday nights for several months. It takes alot of courage to stand up in front of the entire congregation and lead a song at this age!
Wyatt lead "When We All Get to Heaven". I didn't get a picture of Will, just video, but he lead "This World is Not My Home".
And...... this is Wyatt sleeping while the other 16 boys lead songs :)
Between competitions we got to explore the hotel. We did the boat ride and watched the water show and took more pictures!
Of course the water show needed proper conducting! Will and Weston were very into it!
Wyatt tried, but with cheeto fingers, it just wouldn't work!
The awards ceremonies at night were really fun....long, but exciting. Our youth won so many awards! It was neat to see the kids go up on stage and get the trophies. The boys especially liked it when a friend of theirs in 3rd grade won a 3rd place trophy for his speech. They thought that was so cool! In a couple of years, Will is going to be at that level.....scary!
The glass elevators were fun too of course.
They were so tired by the time they finally fell into bed!
It's a fun and exhausting weekend!
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