Vacation Bible School Adventure!

BIG NEWS! I have been given the opportunity to be Vacation Bible School Director in our church this summer! I’m very excited! I don't play piano or really even sing all that well but I love drama (stage drama)! I love to do skits – that is my favorite thing to do ;). This is going to be a great time! Last year I taught 5th graders in VBS and a girl named Savannah made a profession of Faith! That was awesome....to be perfectly honest, I was surprised when it happened. I hope that doesn't sound too bad but often times I have the mentality that everyone has accepted My Jesus as their Savior.

When I was preparing my lesson I had the mindset that I was teaching saved children how to witness to lost children. It had not occurred to me that through our lessons that I would actually be doing some witnessing myself. Seeing someone saved, it doesn’t get any better than that! So when I was asked to be VBS Director I was more than happy to be a bigger part of what I now had a better "grasp" on!

VBS means more to me now. Those children are so smart…they are like sponges, they soak up anything you say!!! After the other Savannah was saved, I pleaded with her to ask her parents to bring her to church every Sunday, to get in a SS class, to read her Bible, and to find some Christian friends to hang around with. I testified very vaguely that after I was Saved at 9 years old I had not done these things and that I regret it terribly. I remember how I felt when I was first saved, the feeling that I knew Jesus was inside of me now and I wanted to tell everyone! I skipped through the church hallways singing, "I'm a Christian. I'm a Christian!” But then some things happened...I wasn't reading my Bible, my family wasn’t going to church regularly, I made friends with people that didn't go to church and for a very long time I was simply a Christian with a ticket to Heaven. I told the girls, "I want more for you...God wants more for you!" He can’t teach you to be a mature Christian if you don't read His Bible and fellowship with other Christians. I told them how happy I am now that I am living for God. It feels like it did when I was first Saved and the more I learn, the happier I am!! I pray for those little girls in my class l ast year, I pray that they will make godly choices. I pray that they will be in VBS again this summer.

Pray for our church as we put this VBS on, that we will be good witnesses and that many will be saved! That we will also teach them how to witness and mature as Christians! I think it was no mistake that I was put in that classroom last year with those 5th graders seeing that I too was around that age when I was saved! God can make something good out of anything bad. Over the past couple of years I have prayed often for Him to use me and help me to grow! He took what I did (or didn't do) for years and used me to witness to those girls last summer about the mistakes I had made. I pray that they listened and will live for God - to the fullest!

God in me in 2008!

It is Wednesday and I can hardly wait to attend church tonight to hear from the Lord and give Him praise for ALL of the blessings He has given me this week. I have been so blessed this week... Earlier in the week I found out that I would be able to fly to NY to see Kevin, his family, & friends AGAIN! Nervously (not sure why now) I asked the team leader at work if she thought it possible... She took much time out of her morning and rearranged the schedule so that when I asked my boss If I could go, we could give her the "new & improved" schedule. After just a couple hours of everyone praying & waiting, the boss called and gave it the OK!;) My friends at work are always such a blessing ! Then yesterday, I asked my boss for permission to leave work an hour earlier so that I'll have more time to catch the plane. I prayed, "God You know what I need, You even know how much time I need! Please be with me as I ask my boss if I can have another favor" :-) Guess what!? She gave it a go! Wow, My God loves me! Yet again, another blessing I do not deserve... Thank-you Jesus:)

Then, I found out yesterday I received an A in an online course...That is a blessing that God knows I appreciate! I tell people all the time that I did not go to college because I am so smart but because I really wanted to be smart and I knew God would help me through it! And He Did!!

I am at the point of tears this morning because God loved me so much that not only did He send HIS Son to die on a cross for me so that I may go to Heaven...But He makes me so happy here on earth too! It's too much to understand sometimes...

Sunday's sermon was, "A journey to becoming a mature Christian in 2008". I am EXCITED! How about you?!? Pastor announced we will have more classes and I am really happy about that... There is always more to learn! But to sum up the sermon, (Luke 2:1-14) Joseph is going to Bethlehem to pay his taxes with his wife Mary who is great with child. During their time in Bethlehem, Mary gave birth to Jesus! If you think about it... why did God choose Joseph and Mary? The answer, simply because they were mature Christians. Joseph and Mary were going through a time in their life when people laughed at them and lied about them. They had to strictly just have FAITH in God! And they did. I want to be that kind of Christian! In 2008, I am ready to be lied on, laughed at, and rely wholly on God! Earlier in this blog I wrote of my anxiety about asking my boss for the time off to go to NY, and then I said , "I don't know why now". Looking back on the times I worried.. I feel foolish. God has always given me just what He wants me to have... whether it be a safe trip to NY or a good grade in an online course...Don't carry the load in 2008 by yourself... God is big enough to carry it for you!!!

Just bragging...

I have arrived! After a couple hours of layover at the JFK airport I finally made it back to Wiggins....3:00 a.m. (That's a BIG deal for me to be up this late and writing on a blog...lol)...There was a lot of turbulence on the flight home and it had me worried for a while...I just prayed God would help me to fall asleep so I'd quit panicking! And He did! Thankfully... So just thought I'd brag on Him some before I went to bed..I think it's pretty awesome he can put us that far up in the sky...defeating gravity..so that we can get somewhere a whole lot faster! So not only did He keep me safe...But he made it convenient for me;)...Doubt my poor parents are feeling the same way...they had to pick me up and drive me home! :) I thank God for them as well as the friends I met at Kevin's and my safe return! I'm very sad I could not stay longer but I appreciate the opportunity to go more than anything....Those are some sweet people in Rochester NY;)...good night

Up North

So I'm a small town girl...who doesn't get out much...BUT here lately I am QUITE the traveler!! Went to New Orleans to the airport, then to JFK airport in New York City, then to Rochester NY to visit Brother kevin ;) ....more on me later!