Ev: God is in control

Today was a lesson about who really is control through a series of events. First we had arranged to be at the nursing home today at 10 AM but when we got there we found out there was a miscommunication about the day. The nursing home was not expecting us. We have now arranged to come at 3 PM Wednesday afternoon after the pizza party. Please pray for the service that many people would be open to the message in words and music about God's amazing love and grace towards them this coming Wednesday. Next in the afternoon we realized that we had another miscommunication about the coloring booklets for the kids to use during down time. We had not copied the booklets for the kids yet so we had to do it the next day. Finally,in the evening Shirley gave us the VBS count for the week - 3 pre-schoolers, 5 1st to 3rd graders, 6 4th to 5th graders, 8 6th graders, and 3 7th to 8th graders!!! We had not excepted that almost half would be olders kids! Shirley and Koichi had been praying the last 3 years that older kids would come because so often these kids have activities or just lose interest as they get older. It was a wonderful answer to prayer but not what we planned for but God did! Karen and I had expected maybe 4 older kids and again our plans were "disrupted" so we are planning to go shopping for more craft materials today before church. Today God showed me that He was in control, and not to worry and just be flexiblity and go where God leads. It was also encouraging to me that the devotional thought in our book today was "May be the thing that bug you the most is the thing God wants us to grow the most in." Tomorrow we will begin our first day of VBS. I know God will use all of us to share His incredible love and grace to the children but just as amazing He will be challenging us to respond to this same love and grace by giving more of our lives to Him. Thank you for all your prayers. They are being answered. God is so good and so faithful. Blessings, Ev