Team Chattanooga

Our summer was filled with volunteer teams. We started the month of June with Team Chattanooga and they set the bar HIGH for the rest of the summer! They were an amazing group of 16 university students and adults. While they were here they did a wide variety of things. As you can see here, the boys brought their testosterone and an American football and schooled some Spanish boys on what "football" means in Tennessee!!!
In the afternoons Team Chattanooga went onto the university campus to conduct Soularium surveys. They used those contacts to from groups that met in the evenings. Here they are with an English club.
Each morning we took the team into Los Alamos, one of the secondary schools where we volunteer. They have a 30 minute break each day and we used that to try to get to know some kids. We set up speakers and taught them dances like the Cha-cha Slide, the Cupid Shuffle, the Electric Slide, the Cotten-Eyed Joe, the YMCA, and the Macarena! The first day the students just looked at us like we were idiots. We were...idiots for Jesus!!! By the end of the week we had kids dancing everywhere and we were able to get them to come to 2 youth parties in the evening! We've been trying to get kids to come out of the school and play with us for YEARS. It is finally starting to happen and Team Chattanooga helped us take a giant step in that direction.

At the evening parties we served hot dogs, chips, and drinks. You know you have to feed teenagers if you want them to come back! Our three lady chaperones took good care of this task!