Our week was a fantastic one. Day 5 brought 19 kids to VBS and we had a total of 29 come at some point during the week. Seeing how in day one "Murphy" showed up and brought his cousin Daryl, his other cousin Daryl and his uncle Chester - everything that could go wrong did. But GOd prevailed through all of it and the team of kids were not fazed by anything that came our way. They rolled with it, adapted when needed and did a fantastic job in all their individual areas as they had prepared well and knew what they needed to get accomplished, and were able to do that effectively.
Sarah - our quiet one, decided to tell us on Friday in our debrief time, that she led a little boy to Christ on Thursday. His name is Antonio and heaven is rejoicing at the conversion of this young heart. Several other kids prayed this week to reaffirm their faith in Christ too.
The rally last night, where all the sites come together and give testimony of what they saw God do at their sites or in what God did in them, four of our kids (Chris, Kaitlyn, Cory & Kati) all went forward to share what God did and to challenge kids to take this experience home with them and not leave it behind. Many kids did come forward to share last night, but proportionately, our kids were obviously well impacted by the week.
We have a trip to Mall of America today to kick back and relax, going to see Cars 2 as a group today and a final dinner before we do worship service again tomorrow with Narrow Road band leading worship and I am preaching. Please be in prayer for this as though VBS is over, we still have one more opportunity to minister to this body here. Pray also for a safe trip home without incident - seeing how we will be heading back through the Dells with other families going home.
A couple of our last "Are You Serious/No Way Jose"awards went to Jack who on Thursday finally realized that the "Bus Stop" sign I had made for the skit done last week is identical to the ones they have in Minneapolis. His powers of observation were stellar! Then the final one actually went to a leader, Audra. In the morning rally we all needed pens to fill out evaluations. I asked my team who had pens and she did not - she left hers back home and has been borrowing from others. Are you serious??? a teacher leaving a pen behind. So the craft team more than willingly made a pen for her with very nice stickers and her name on it!
Thank you all for praying for us prior to and throughout the week - but it is still not over - please keep praying. God is not done. "Greater things are yet to come and greater things are still to be done in this city!"
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