Gonna Say YES to VBS!

Well, this week we have been finishing up our school work for the year (YEAH WE ARE DONE!) and enjoying the best VBS ever this week! And the best part is that it ALL comes back to Jesus on the Boomerang Express...

...Rockin' in the worship rally!

This year we, as our mission project, we took up money to support the VBS our church plant in Haiti will do in just a few weeks. They have over 1,000 children attend and they serve them a meal of rice and beans which is the only meal most of those children will get all day. We couldn't believe how God worked through the children and their parents! Each day they would come up and give their money in these cups which stood for a child they would feed at VBS...
And the children alone raised $250 in just 3 nights! We built this tower of "children" to show the kids how many children would go to VBS and hear the story of Jesus...WOW!
Jay did a wonderful job and the whole thing was so organized and fun! Great job! Here he shares the Gospel with the children and it was awesome. Anli helped out too!This year, for the first time, we had VBX for the "tweens". They LOVED it! They came to the worship rally, but then attended their own crafts, rec, snack, Bible study, etc. They even had their own shirts designed by one of their leaders! They felt awesome having their very own VBX this year.

It was a perfect kick off to our new tween ministry Jay and Shad are starting this fall called "The Edge." We are so excited that these kids will have a specific ministry just to this growing group of young teens. Anli gets to be in the first group and she is already loving it!!

Virginia had a wonderful time with all her friends! She loved the songs, the crafts, and just about everything else too! VBS is such a blessing.

Family night was great! I missed it because I was attending our Impact meeting for Foster parenting. I'll share more later on that...but we are down to our last 2 classes and one of us has to attend. I hated to miss the final night...but I know it was a blast!

The kids all performed songs with their classes and then had a huge ice cream party with the parents. There were so many people...they ran out of ice cream!!

Also, Jay challenged the leaders and parents to give a special offering that night to the Haiti VBS project...and they matched the kids offering! That's over $500 to Haiti VBS in just 4 nights...GO GOD!

We will be on our family mission trip for the next week...so I'll post as I can. It will be a great week...keep us in your prayers!