We had 28 kids today, one brand new girl who came for the last day. Funny how we are always stressing about having enough bags or gifts for the new kids, a great problem to have that we have not had before, praise God!
When I asked the VBS team to "go for it" this year regarding praying the "believers prayer" and introducing "baptism", my faithless heart really did not expect much. But what a harvest we had today, real or not, it is a significant step forward for all of us.
Our informal, possibly biased, evaluation checklist at the end of our program revealed that 17 people had accepted Christ as Lord and Savior, children and a few mothers. This is astounding to me, and I confess I am really skeptical. But again, I will take it for what it is and we will go from there. God can do all things and if we are obedient to what He tells us to do, we can trust Him to do the rest also! I am so looking forward to Sunday and seeing new faces there (2 new families said they would attend), and am anxious to see if some will step forward to be baptized by Pastor Gerald, our TEAM missionary that day. It is enough to see new faces in our regular 3PM service, but what a glorious day that would be!
"He told them, 'The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.'" Luke 10:2 NIV
" Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever." Psalm 107:1
Praise God for new life in Christ! May the seeds that have been planted and watered, grow strong in the Lord!
ReplyDeleteThankful for all your years of faithfulness Shirley and Koichi! God always does more than we can think or imagine, doesn't he?
praise God! What a redeemer and savior we have! glory! thank you, Jesus! more of You all the time, Lord!
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