This is one of my favorite verses and a perfect description of today. It was a day of answered prayers, thank you. We reminded the kids of the rules, implemented our 30 second time out as planned (4 kids were sent to the corner today), and the older girls were better behaved as well. Huge praises.
We had 29 kids today, an all time high for us. We also had 7 moms today at our lunch-time session when Karen shared her testimony. What a wonderful time of sharing among the moms (Kohichi was there to translate). I thought Karen's testimony, especially about baptism, was spot on for us and our group. The Lord told her clearly what our group needed to hear, amazing! Usually the Costco pizza lunch is the highlight, ha. One new mother said she wanted to come to NBF on a regular Sunday!
Ev has some seriously praise-worthy blogging to do so I will defer to her to tell you. So much of today was not according to schedule, but I felt the least stressed I have ever felt in the 4 years we have had VBS at NBF. That, in and of itself, is a great praise! It felt that things happened just as God had planned all along, and it felt wonderful.
Mr. Onoe came to take the team to the nursing home at 2:30 or so, and from what I heard, it went just fine. We are so encouraged that he feels lead to take our VBS teams to the nursing home each year, and even translates for them, a really big step for him. He is such a sweet man and we hope and pray that in his own quiet way, the Lord has taken permanent residence in his heart.
We gave out our manga bibles today, also. These are available at Amazon also; there are 3 now (Manga Messiah, Metamorphosis, Mutiny by Tyndale), the latest one starts in the Old Testament. NBF will purchase a case of the newest one for Xmas this year. The kids were so happy to have them. They were silent as each of them read through their books as soon as they received them. How wonderful!
All I can think of and hear in my mind is Tina O. singing the words to Twila Paris' song "How Beautiful," in my head right now (yes, I know this is a really old song). It was a long and busy day, but blessed beyond belief. We are grateful to the VBS team, our prayer partners at LCC and our awesome God who loves us so very much.
We send Sharon and Tim back to you tomorrow....will be praying for safe and uneventful travel.
Good night and thank you again!
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