Summer Funner

Summer Funner is a ministry in our city that does a VBS-type of ministry once per year that focuses a lot on acting as well as Christianity. One of the key members attends Springs Calvary and so they asked to use our facility this year for "Then Came The Frogs" (a musical about a Sunday School class that goes back in time to see Moses' life through the Egyptian plagues. - hence the frogs!) So every day from 9:00am to noon our entire facility was home to over 150 children and staff. Then on Friday evening, the performance began. We had over 550 people in our Sanctuary and 150 of them were on our stage (on risers!) It was packed! At any rate, Taite had a GREAT time and said his line perfectly, "it's not too realistic!" (Several of the kids had to "double up" and say thier lines together with another kid - Taite did have a partner.) The funniest part was seeing them all scurry around the stage finding thier way to the microphones when it was time for thier lines. Taite was in true leader fasion looking at the kids with a smirk and mouthing the words "come on!" Anyway, here are a few close-ups of Taite at the performance. I'll post more pics of some other fun activities later this week - I promise!

First we have Taite waiting patiently as the older actors set the premise of the story.

Finally Taite gets some action! Ali (Pastor Farah's daughter) was his group leader all week and helped him learn all the motions to the songs among other things.

This is probably my favorite picture. Taite is officially playing a Hebrew slave (hence the scarf.) I think his Equity card is coming next week from the Actors Union.

Here's Taite and his partner finally getting to say thier line. 15 minutes of fame? More like 15 seconds!