It's About the Children: 1st Day of VBS Mozambique Style

Monday, August 6, 2007

1st Day of VBS Mozambique Style

Well this is the view of the Mozambique Campus this morning! We had over 300 (had trouble getting an accurate count) kids show up for VBS today. It was an awesome day! They all received a t-shirt as they came in this morning and got their picture taken. We taught them the lawnmower song. Mrs. Sherrie told the story of David and Goliath while Jay and Abraham acted it out. It was awesome!

This is were I spent most of my day. I sat in the car printing out the kids pictures on a portable printer as Jay took the kids picture. We started at about 11:00 and at 4:30 when we left I was still printing pictures. Seeing those kids get so excited over seeing a picture of them self makes it all worth it! I love it!!!!! No place else I would rather be right now!!!!!

3 comments:

Amanda said...: I know thta you are all having an amazing time. You are all such a blessing! Love on those preciuos children for those here in BR.; August 6, 2007 at 12:47 PM
tallie lea said...: thank you so much for keeping us up to date on what is going on over there. i am praying for all of you. you look like you are having a blast!; August 6, 2007 at 1:52 PM
Unknown said...: You guys are doing an awesome job. You are such a huge blessing to the community of Mozambique.; August 7, 2007 at 12:56 AM

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My Testimony

I grew up in a Christian home where I was drug to church every time the doors were open. I spent my childhood trying to follow the Christian ways that my parents had drilled into my head, but when I was 10 I made a choice all on my own to accept Christ as my Savior and follow and serve Him for the rest of my life. I continued to follow after God, and when I was 15 I knew God was calling me into full time ministry. In my mind I believed their were only 2 options for me; a children’s pastor or a youth pastor. For 10 years I went around and around and around because I let fear stop me from doing what God created me to do. Finally I got tired of not going anywhere and I asked God what is it that you want me to do. He told me He wanted me on the mission field. This was very hard for me to hear because I spent my entire life with a fear of leaving the United States, I grew up saying I was never going to another country. I put aside all my fears and said O.K. God I will go. My first trip out of the United States God sends me by myself, I cried for a week before I left, I cried on the plane the whole way down to Honduras, but once I got there and I experienced what God had waiting for me it was greater than anything I had experienced in the States. After setting foot on foreign soil I knew thats where I was spending the rest of my life. I still was not completely open to what God had for me I still had some restrictions. We had a sermon series called The HPC Apprentice; 4 people out of the church were chosen and I was 1 of the 4, we spent several weeks just doing whatever was asked of us, serving the church, serving the community and then at the end the church voted on who they thought should win. I did not win, but the guy who did win won a trip to Swaziland, Africa. After finding out what the prize was I was so glad I did not win, because I had also spent my entire life saying I was never going to Africa. Well, over the next 6 months God begins to work on me and all of a sudden I am now telling my sister I really want to go to Africa. My sister had a friend who was going to Africa in 2 months so she called her up and told her I wanted to go to Africa, so she said let me see what I can do. Next thing I know I’m receiving a phone call saying I hear you want to go to Africa. Within a month I had raised every penny I needed for the trip and within another month I was on a plane to Africa. Do you know I made it to Africa before the guy who won the trip to Africa? When God has a plan He makes away. So 2005 was the first year I went to Africa, I went home from that trip with a calling on my life to reach, serve, nurture and love the children of Africa. I spent six months living in Mozambique, Africa I returned with an even greater passion to reach the unforgotten children around the world. After returning from Africa I co-founded Red Thread Ministries to help those who are without means to help themselves. We work with children domestic and international, sharing the love of Jesus. For more information and ways to get invovled checkout our website at www.redthreadministries.org