This is good stuff and right on track. Thanks for the tips. I will
print these off and give to the commanders.
Mark Jones, Ozark MO, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Download a Free Royal Ranger
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On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 23:25:41 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>The church we went to a few years back blossomed overnight and
>suddenly my
>wife and I went from 5 Buckaroos to 33. All of us together in a small
>room
>was a challenge in itself, but when the church built a new playground,
>it was
>impossible to get a lot of the boys (all ages) to want to come in at
>all let
>alone on time.
>
>My wife found a dozen or so hard cardboard rolls about 2" wide by 20"
>long.
>Some of them were shorter and about 8" wide. We cut holes in some of
>them
>and made a couple of complicated tunnels and with some small boards we
>had
>bridges and roads. A trip to Wal Mart (my wife's best friend) and a
>few
>dollars loaded us up with metal hot wheels cars on sale for 33 cents
>apiece.
>We set up early in the room and were playing with the cars ourselves
>having a
>grand time, when by word of mouth, ALL ages of rangers came in and
>began to
>rearrange the "roads" and "bridges" and "tunnels" to suit themselves.
>As
>soon as it was time to gather, I lined the boys up and marched them
>into the
>beginning excercises while my wife cleaned up, putting every thing in
>a
>special unknown place for future use. Every week the boys got there
>earlier
>and earlier trying to discover where the cars were kept.
>
>After that, we changed around. The next best thing that really worked
>was
>the marbles my wife found in the dollar store Four or five bags set us
>up.
>We used tape to make circles on the floor and began lessons on the
>ancient
>way to play marbles.
>Before we knew it, 30 min or more before service, old timers, men and
>women,
>were squatted down on our floor shooting marbles with the boys. We
>saw they
>were getting pretty good, and started a marble tournament. That was
>great
>fun.
>
>The Bible says, "GO OUT AND COMPEL THEM TO COME IN." I guess that's
>what we
>were doing. It worked for us. Wayne Hale, OP 190, Splendora, Texas
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