March Madness: Carnival Night

One of the things we started doing during March Madness is Carnival Night. We had a number of amazing volunteers from all over Southern California come to help run the booths. Six small groups from Saddleback Church came to help, as well as a group of high school students from South Central Young Life, and a few volunteers from Azusa Pacific University. Sarah Field, a local photographer, volunteered her services for a Photo Booth that night which was a huge hit! Along with the overflow of volunteers, we had a number of people donate games to play for the evening and materials for other booths. We had a Wii dancing booth, Pie Your Leader booth, Bowling, Face Painting and so much more!  Check out our pictures of the booths and the awesome Photo Booth pictures

 Pie your leader

 Wii Dance Booth

Torre and David 

Dance Party! 

Photo Booth 

Photo Booth  

Photo Booth

-Rachel

March Madness: Ice Palace

A few years ago OC Capernaum started doing a March Madness. During the month of March we do on and off-camups events. The first March Madness event was Ice Skating at Ice Palace. 

Ice Palace was nice enough to let us have 20 free chaperone spots! We've been so blessed by their generosity the last few years.

Some leaders and kids got out on the ice and skated around for an hour and a half, and others took advantage of the Snack Bar. It was a great night of hanging out with kids and helping them make laps around the ice!

 Bailey and Amanda gettin' ready to hit the ice

 Out on the ice!

 Taking a snack break

 Pretty ladies scoping out the scene

Mark and Daniel zooming by

Wyldlife..... Why Knot??

Hello all i hope everyone is enjoying our first few weeks of spring! I know all the kids and leaders have been at Wyldlife! This week we had great weather we started off with a great game of THE HUMAN KNOT ! it was awesome also played a game called the oreo stack witch was Hilarious!! at the end of club after the games i shared a story from the bible on John 9 about the man that jesus healed that was blind from birth, i was able to share with them the good news and give them a little story from my life that tied it all together with practical life application! it was awesome! 

-Dmar

Craziness at the High Rollers Capernaum Club

Club this week was a blast! Our students participated in some crazy games... Including a donut eating contest, and a shaving cream to the face/Cheeto toss! We rocked out to some tunes led by Dave, and ended the night by hearing a message on forgiveness from one of our leaders Mark. It was a great way to end the month of February, and now we are ready for March madness!!!

 Throwing bologna at our crazy leaders, Jordan and Kyle!

Mark, Teresa, and Jason trying to eat donuts on a string... With no hands! 

Kyle and Ava take a (quick) break from dancing to smile for the camera 

Teresa and Sean loving club... And matching :) 

Megan- post shaving cream and Cheetos to the face. Still looking as beautiful as ever!

-Tayren

High Rollers Love

Instead of having a typical club for Valentines Day, we decided to treat our students to a special evening.  Our students were served a sit down dinner, enjoyed hearing from a live quartet, and ended the night by coming up on stage and sharing their best pick up lines. The evening was so much fun, and I think everyone there felt the Valentines love!

Teresa and Jack showing off the Valentines Day cards they made for each other :)

Caleb, Kyle and their new friend enjoying dinner and dessert!

-Tayren

Big Air Wyldlife Club

Last Tuesday we got be part of a really cool opportunity! I am of the coaches for the Marco Forester Surf Team and I had set up an event to go to the new trampoline park called Big Air! The other coaches were nice enough to invite our Wyldlife club to join the surf team on their big air trampoline park adventure! It was an amazing opportunity because we got to introduce most of the surf team and their parents to what Wyldlife is and what its all about and at the same time get crazy and jump on some trampolines! It was an amazing success and we all had a blast! Attached are some photos from our day of "bouncing off the walls" literally!

-Dmar

A Special Birthday

Late February we celebrated the birthday of one of our sweet girls from club, Laura. It was her birthday on Valentines day, so the following Friday one of our amazing leaders hosted a birthday party for her. Laura has a harder home life and we wanted to make her birthday extra special this year! We invited many of her friends from school to come and celebrate our dear friend. Around 6:00 her friends started showing up at the house and when everyone was there, we headed over to the park to let out our aggression on the Hello Kitty piñata. She was able to take the final hit at the piñata before we went back to the house to enjoy pizza, pasta, and birthday cake. We ended the evening singing karaoke into our blow-up microphones! We have been blessed to get to know laura over the past few years, and had an amazing time celebrating her! A special thanks to you, our donors, who helped fund this party for our friend!

-Rachel