2016 VBS Day 2

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Above: Beginning our day in our main meeting room singing together. The kids are becoming more and more familiar with all the songs and are having a great time singing together. The lyrics in all of these songs help these kids get a more accurate understanding of God’s word and God’s ways.

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Above: A child holds up her achievement card. Each camper gets stickers in their small group for being present, being able to say the day’s memory verse and for their good behavior.

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Above: Church member Józsi (above left) shared that kids are now opening up on the second day and he is able to have better conversations with each one. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, the majority of these kids do not attend our church and this is one of a few opportunities they have to gain a clear understanding of God’s Gospel and God’s love.

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Above: One of the many activities we have for kids in their free time in the afternoon. As you can see, teachers have a fun time climbing as well.

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Praise God for another great day of Vacation Bible School! Once again, God gave amazing weather (after it rained overnight) so that the kids could spend most of the day outside. The kids are clearly having a great time and learning more about our amazing God. Today, I had my first opportunity to meet with my group which is a bit unique. It consists of those who are older who have ‘outgrown’ this camp but still attend to help throughout the day. I was able to share my testimony of my midlife crisis at the age of 20 and my search for answers that led me to Jesus Christ. Later I heard from another helper in the group that they continued to talk about some of the important things that came out in my testimony. Tomorrow, Arnold will share his testimony in the group as we continue to seek to encourage those in the group that are already believers and help those who have not yet made that decision to put their faith in Jesus. Many of these older kids in my group will be going to a teen camp we have planned just a few days after our VBS.

At the end of the day we had an incident with two children that went missing at the meeting point where parents come to pick them up. It all turned out to be series of miscommunication and the kids actually walked home because of a mistake one of our workers made. Please pray that there would be peace after this incident and that the new system we are putting in place tomorrow would keep this from happening again.

As we approach the midpoint of camp, we need strength and stamina. As kids begin to open up and as the Gospel is made more and more clear each day, please pray for hearts to be touched and for these children to understand and put their faith in Jesus. Pray also for our workers’ health. Zsolti has an ear infection and we ask for prayer for healing. Pray for more conversations in the small group time to lead to important spiritual truths we find in God’s word. Please continue to pray for protection for all of the kids when they are playing together at free time. Thank you all for your prayers.
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