VBS

VBS started in 2019 when Karissa Horst and Merlin and Bethany Ramer organized a children's Bible School in our village. They spent many hours, pulled from their knowledge of similar programs in the US, and came up with a very organized plan. Most of which we still use in every VBS we do. Things have been tweaked a bit but because of all their careful planning and hard work, VBS has become a program everyone enjoys, and as was proved this spring, can be done anywhere you want to.

   A group of youth and chaperones from Missouri were planning to come and help with VBS in April. We had been planning and gathering things to have VBS in our village. And then we hit a speed bump, turning point, or wall. Whatever you want to call it. The week before the scheduled VBS we found out that they planned a sporting event for several of the surrounding schools. Almost all the children in our village would be gone till dark to participate. When Kenny came home and told me, we were a bit dumbfounded. Now what? But God had a plan. Kenny talked to a headmaster at another school not far away where a number of the children from church attend school and we decided to move our VBS to that village. God came through and even though the numbers were a little less than we had thought they might be, it still came together and was a success.

The school grounds where we set up. We didn't have tents and roofs over everything but the weather co-operated.

Games

Bible Story

Singing

Main Assembly

The last day they each got a 25 Bible Story book. That was definitely the high light!

  Sometimes I wonder why our lives need to be so out of control feeling. It feels like the pieces never just peacefully fall in place. They always fall in place but usually there is a twist and jolt somewhere. Why can others plan things and everything comes together effortlessly? Kenny and I decided God knew we would be proud or take the credit if we pulled off a VBS successfully. So He changed the location so we would remember to rely on Him for our strength. And I believe we touched lives that would never have been touched otherwise.

            Assomdree VBS

 Last week was VBS in Assomdree. The biggest miracle of the week was the weather. It is rainy season right now and the rains often come in the afternoon out there. For the four days we did VBS, sometimes it would rain in the morning, sometimes in the evening, but never over the time of the actual program. One time it stopped a few hours before we started VBS and started within an hour of us packing up. Even the natives noticed the timing. What an awe-some God we serve!

Registration where each child gets counted and gets a colored wrist band.

Main assembly with Brechol teaching.

I taught at the one Bible Story station with the help of a translator.

Coloring. The boy looking is Romulus. He is deaf and just a few years ago was hit by a dump truck and lost one leg. It hasn't changed his smile or his ability to keep up with the others.

Games

                                          

And the wonderful crew who made it all happened. It was a bit sad knowing that this is Wayne and Dorothy's last time being in charge of a VBS in Assomdree. They did the first three there and we hope it is something that will continue many years.