Alyson Walker, from Oklahoma, shares of how her, her friends at South Tulsa Baptist, and 5 other nearby churches have chosen to partner with Sweet Sleep this summer! They are in the middle of a 6 week journey of "building beds" and sharing with kids the need for a good night's sleep! We will continue to keep you updated on this ongoing and awesome journey of theirs!
"Sweet Sleep and Oklahoma!
As the preschool minister at South Tulsa Baptist, I attend
LifeWay's Kids conference. In 2009 I came across the Sweet Sleep booth
in the exhibit hall at the conference. When I heard about what Sweet
Sleep does and saw the old nasty bed and mattress I was floored! I had
never thought about how and where children around the world were
sleeping before. The Children's Minister and I said right then and
there our VBS offering should go to Sweet Sleep! So that next summer it
did.
I started following Sweet Sleep on Facebook and got more and more
information about Sweet Sleep. Then in 2011, we did it again during VBS and our offering went to Sweet Sleep. But by the time of this VBS, I had gone on my
first Sweet Sleep Journey to Uganda and saw first hand what Sweet Sleep
means to these children! I was forever changed and convinced that Sweet
Sleep is doing some amazing things. Actually, I should have said God is
using Sweet Sleep to do His Amazing work! I have now been on 3 Sweet
Sleep Journeys and I pray many more to come!
Because of all of that, I of course love to talk about Sweet Sleep.
So all of the area Preschool & Children's Ministers have heard my
heart for Sweet Sleep and they have also jumped on board. We have a
summer kids camp we call KMAK (Kids Mission Adventure Kamp) we have 6
weeks of Kamp and churches from all over Oklahoma and a few from
Arkansas come. We have a mission focus each day and last year one was
Sweet Sleep. We showed a video and then we made pillows. We made close
to 1,000 pillows.
This year we are doing Sweet Sleep again but instead of pillows we
are giving each church a puzzle. This puzzle is made out of PVC pipe.
They don't know what they are making but they work together and when
they have finished they have put together a bed. Then we will show a
Sweet Sleep video and share w/ them the fact that there are children who
do not have their own bed to sleep in. Some might have to sleep w/ 6 or 7
others in a twin bed. They will have that "twin bed" in front of them
to actually see what it might be like to have 7 people in one bed. Each child will get a bank they can take home and fill up for Sweet
Sleep & they can give any money left on their canteen card to Sweet
Sleep. In one week we collected $310.
Now normally the last day
the children will spend all of their money left on candy. One little boy
gave his card to this weeks director and said he spent half on himself
and wanted to give the other half to Sweet Sleep!
I'm excited that we still have about 2 more weeks of Kamp to go!! The
Lord is doing some great things through KMAK for Sweet Sleep and doing
great things through Sweet Sleep!! Every penny counts and we are seeing
that this Summer!!!
Alyson Walker <> Tulsa, Oklahoma"
Have you chosen to serve along side of Sweet Sleep in a unique and creative way?
If so please email us and tell us how! We are always looking for ways the Lord chooses to use people to step out and be advocates of orphaned and abandoned children!
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