Speaker 1: Miss Gene here with today's mini adventure. Do you like
Speaker 1: making things? Do you like getting your hands dirty? Well,
Speaker 1: if you said yes to both of those questions, then
Speaker 1: pottery might be a great hobby for you. This summer
Speaker 1: at Camp Hattie had a small pottery activity. The campers
Speaker 1: seemed to like it, and this has camp director Joyce
Speaker 1: Holt thinking about creating a pottery activity station. Let's join
Speaker 1: Misshold for a research and session in today's mini adventure
Speaker 1: called Centered.
Speaker 2: And where does the pedal go?
Speaker 3: Joyce? I have to spreadsheets? Oh is that? Uh? What
Speaker 3: is that?
Speaker 2: It's a pottery wheel.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's what I was going to say. But in
Speaker 3: your office pottery is messy though.
Speaker 4: Well we're about to find out. Uh, it's all right,
Speaker 4: mass Simon. I'm just test driving this pottery wheel. I
Speaker 4: want to see if it would be a good station
Speaker 4: activity for next summer camp.
Speaker 3: I see, well, I'll put the spreadsheet on your desk
Speaker 3: and be on my way.
Speaker 2: Oh, mister Simon, can you plug in the pedal?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 2: Oh it works. Now let me try the pedal. It's spinning.
Speaker 2: Oh this is going to be so much.
Speaker 3: But Joyce, have you used a pottery wheel before?
Speaker 2: No, but it looks so graceful.
Speaker 3: Graceful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I watched some YouTube tutorials.
Speaker 3: I see well. Uh, I think I'll stay and watch
Speaker 3: how this goes camp director Joyce.
Speaker 5: Here's the bucket of water.
Speaker 2: Perfect, Natalia. Set it right here next to the wheel.
Speaker 5: Ooh, it's spinning. Now, sure is?
Speaker 3: Have you used a pottery wheel before?
Speaker 5: No, but I've always wanted to.
Speaker 2: Okay, Now, first we take out the clay.
Speaker 5: Why is it wrapped in plastic?
Speaker 2: Well, clay drives when left uncovered. Now it's nice and malleable.
Speaker 5: Now map malleable.
Speaker 2: It's soft and can be shaped. Here fill it?
Speaker 5: Ooh, squishy.
Speaker 2: So now we put the clay on the wheel and wait,
Speaker 2: there's something else.
Speaker 3: Water, Otherwise the clay will stick.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, pour the water.
Speaker 3: Je still a little, or it'll spin and fly right off.
Speaker 2: Oh okay there now here goes.
Speaker 3: Ease your foot off the pedal. You're spinning awfully fast.
Speaker 2: Oh good idea. Now I put the clay on whoa,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, whoa. I just need to center the clay.
Speaker 3: Ease up on the foot pedal. There you go, nice
Speaker 3: and slow.
Speaker 2: Oh that's better, but the clay is wobbling.
Speaker 3: Put a little water on your hands in gentle pressure.
Speaker 5: It's not wobbling.
Speaker 4: Clay is centered now, Ah, now I can shape it.
Speaker 5: What are you gonna make?
Speaker 2: How about a vase?
Speaker 3: You sure?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I put a little water and then a little
Speaker 2: more speed and careful, and the clay broke apart.
Speaker 3: Start over a little water, recenter. There you go.
Speaker 2: Okay, Now press down in the center.
Speaker 3: Not too far. You don't want to break through the
Speaker 3: bottom break through.
Speaker 4: Oh you mean like that you made two vases.
Speaker 2: I made two lumps of clay.
Speaker 3: Try again, recenter.
Speaker 4: Okay, the clay isn't cooperating as easily.
Speaker 3: No, clay has a memory. It likes to go back
Speaker 3: to its previous.
Speaker 2: Shape, kind of like us.
Speaker 3: Yes, we do have a tendency to go back to
Speaker 3: our old ways, don't we.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but some water and shaping. Ah, there we're centered again.
Speaker 3: Now, gentle, you are the potter. The clay yields to
Speaker 3: your hands.
Speaker 5: Can you teach me, miss Holt.
Speaker 4: I'd love to, Natalia, but I still have no idea
Speaker 4: what I'm doing.
Speaker 3: Water, that's the most important tool of potter.
Speaker 2: Has Okay, water and gentle.
Speaker 3: Pressure, gentle, steady pushing.
Speaker 2: Down in the center.
Speaker 5: Oh I did it this time, it looks like a
Speaker 5: tiny bone. Now it does.
Speaker 4: Now to make a vase, I press and lift the
Speaker 4: clay upwards while the will spins.
Speaker 3: It's not as easy as it sounds.
Speaker 2: I saw the video and you do this and.
Speaker 5: Oh no, the clay broke.
Speaker 2: This is way harder than the videos made it look.
Speaker 3: Well, that's because the potters in those videos have years
Speaker 3: of experience. You're just starting, true.
Speaker 2: Alrie Center or mister Simon, can you show me?
Speaker 3: Oh, I.
Speaker 2: You know what to do. I can tell from your instructions.
Speaker 5: Are you potter, mister Simon, Well, no, I'm not.
Speaker 3: But my late wife loved pottery. She was very good
Speaker 3: at it.
Speaker 2: Oh that's sweet. And you use the will too once
Speaker 2: in a while.
Speaker 3: It's been a very long time.
Speaker 2: Well, the will's yours. Would you like to try? I yes,
Speaker 2: I think I would, mister Simon.
Speaker 3: Okay, not too fast. Water clay you're centered and a vase?
Speaker 5: Yes, please?
Speaker 3: Okay, pushing in the center. Now there's a shallow hole. Nice,
Speaker 3: and this is how you lift the sides. Let's see
Speaker 3: if I can do this nice and slow.
Speaker 5: Mister Simon. It's so nice.
Speaker 3: They're a vase shape. I tellia watch and I'll show
Speaker 3: you how to make decorations. I want to learn too,
Speaker 3: of course, of course.
Speaker 5: Can we make a flower on the side a flower?
Speaker 3: H I don't know, but I can make lines, so stripes.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, nice.
Speaker 3: There we go. What do you think?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: I love it?
Speaker 3: Well? I sure enjoyed that. I always think of creation
Speaker 3: at the pottery wheel.
Speaker 5: Creation of the world.
Speaker 3: Yes, but specifically when God created us humans, he shaped
Speaker 3: us from dirt and dust from clay.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: And God's still shaping us even now. And the Holy
Speaker 3: Spirit is like the water you said.
Speaker 5: The water is the potter's most important tool.
Speaker 3: And the Holy Spirit is most important in helping us
Speaker 3: to shape our lives. He guides us and makes change possible.
Speaker 4: Mister Simon, I think we should get some pottery wheels
Speaker 4: for camp.
Speaker 2: That's a great faith exercise.
Speaker 3: Good idea camp director.
Speaker 2: And it wasn't even messy.
Speaker 5: Can I try the wheel now? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Sure, matellia.
Speaker 4: Okay, careful, not too fast.
Speaker 2: The clayful it's everywhere.
Speaker 3: Not even huh.
Speaker 4: Oh, mister Simon, there's clay everywhere, even in.
Speaker 3: Your hair, in my hair. Now what will we do?
Speaker 5: Clean up?
Speaker 3: And I'll help? That was my job when my wife
Speaker 3: made pottery too.
Speaker 2: I'll get them off.
Speaker 1: It sounds like Camper's will get their turn with a
Speaker 1: pottery wheel next summer, and hopefully it won't be as
Speaker 1: messy as today's adventure was. We are like clay, and God.
Speaker 2: Is the potter.
Speaker 1: Isaiah sixty four, verse eight says this. But now, oh Lord,
Speaker 1: you are our father. We are the clay, and you
Speaker 1: our potter. God formed humans, and he continues to shape
Speaker 1: our lives by the Holy Spirit. I'm glad that when
Speaker 1: we break apart like clay on a potter's wheel, that
Speaker 1: God puts us back together again and shapes us for him.
Speaker 1: God is a wonderful creator and recreator. I miss Jean,
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