Monday we had a block party for the community and it was well attended. our kids mingled with the kids form the community, playing games, talking to them, having a huge water fight, and generally just having fun with the kids. We had different service projects Monday as well. Some us went to a soup kitchen, some went to a nursing home, while others went prayer walking through the various neighborhoods handing out flyers inviting them to come back the the churches VBS. Many of the teens are being stretched outside of their comfort zones at these various service projects. They have been learning in about poverty, life in the inner city and its been helping them put things into their context back at home. Tuesday – out and about at more service projects. Some of our kids were prayer walking, some were at My Brothers Keeper, while others were at a farm called - http://thesamaritanwomen.org/, please take a look at this website to see what this place does. I will share more about it when my group goes this week.
Our first VBS was a great success! Pastor Dave said it ww as the smoothest running VBS he has had yet and we had over 35 kids come to it. Each teen from our group is getting an opportunity to run the craft and teach it to the kids. It’s awesome to see our teens empowered to step up and take lead ship in this role.
Each afternoon we have a worship service before we do our VBS pond teens have the opportunity to share their testimony with our BUMP group. We had our turn yesterday and we chose Gabe Boorse, Kristina Rogalski, Kristin Hasse and Jen Consomer to share their testimonies. The teens did awesome! There were a lot of nervous teens but the spoke with power and boldness about their lives in Christ. Jen Consomer has been amazing addition to this team and she has an awesome heart for the girls. When you see people, do you have the eyes of Jesus? Do you see what Jesus sees in people? that was my challenge to our group, before we headed out to lead our VBS.
~ Eric Couch
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