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!