RECAP: Build on the Hill
What’s the strangest thing that ever happened to you?
Why did you choose your career?
What would be your Dream Dinner?
While racing across Fairhope during one of the Family Challenges for Build on the Hill, our kids read from a list of conversation starters given to us as a strategy to practice being proactive with family building even during mundane times such as riding around in the car together.
Caleb and I shared stories about growing up and then made up our own questions to further engage the kids. We learned some new things about our kiddos, like one of them actually loves salmon (what???) and another one would like nothing but sprinkles for her Dream Dinner (actually, not so surprising coming from this child).
We banded together to beat other families to the different locations and worked on the memory verse. During a different challenge, we giggled while bits of crackers exploded from our mouths. Later that day, I beat my son at Mario Kart, and he sees me with a newfound respect. We ran through the inflatable obstacle course and ate the cookies and chips out of the boxed lunch from Chick-Fil-A and ignored the sandwiches (Dream Dinner!).
We worshipped together, prayed together, were silly together, and learned more about each other and the God we serve. The foundation of our house feels stronger and there are clearer paths on which we need to hone in on.
It was a really fun day and my son has been asking hourly when we get to go back.
Next year, buddy, next year! Hope to see you there too.
We kicked off the day with songs of praise, led by Mobile’s worship intern, Dawson.
Fun props make for fun family pics at the photo booth!
The Saltine Challenge was one of the family building activities. It incorporated having fun together with a corresponding devotional to jumpstart the value behind our theme verse of Psalm 127:1.
Here’s one Mars Hill family discussing the devotional together.
At each location during the race around Fairhope, families worked together to say the memory verse.
Everything is better with a dinosaur costume.
Poor, frail Gavin after a hard morning serving the Lord. (It had a built-in fan, he’s fine).