Half Time Review!

Well the team was up again bright and early ready for breakfast and devotions and then off to a local school for two chapel presentations. We were able to break into two chapel teams and presented our entire program simultaneously in two places and covered all of our bases! It was a wonderful time of fellowship with these children from Pre-K through 6th grade. After the visit to the school, we were able to take a trip to the local artisan market where several of our students experienced a cultural exchange....as in pesos for trinkets. :)

I would like to take this opportunity to give a "shout out!" to Pat Cannon who took the time and shared her talents and expertise with out team to put together this amazing Gospel presentation program. Her training provided the basis for our VBS programs and the students took the foundational teachings that she laid out and have added their own special touches. Just a quick review of the team set up. We broke out into four ministry teams named Team GOD, Team JESUS, Team SIN and Team FAITH. We then visited four unique and distinct places for our presentations rotating the location each day. At the end of the day today each site had received the WHOLE picture....that God is the creator of all and that He is holy and just, that He sent his son JESUS, who came from Heaven to earth, He lived a perfect life and paid the price for our SINS...they learned all the ways that SIN separates us from GOD and that through the blood of Jesus our sins are covered and we are set free from the bondage of death. By FAITH we learned that we need to trust GOD with our whole heart, we learned how to lean with our whole selves and to not simply believe with our heads but with our whole hearts. We were able to leave them with special coloring books that reviewed the various stories, we shared Bible stories through the use of story bags, we made special wordless book bracelets and shared with them about the Armor of God. On this last day each group left behind craft supplies and game supplies as gifts to the community. Teamwork, flexibility, power of prayer, perseverence, strength of the Lord, unity and daily being filled with the Spirit were the key words from tonight's debrief. As I have shared before, the teams have really taken advantage of the opportunity to spend time together and many teams have had special times for sharing their personal testimonies with each other. When they take the time to learn about their differences and they have more information along with explanation this has all led to new understandings.

Tomorrow we visit one more school and then we will put the finishing touches on our team presentations for the purity conference which will begin at the church tomorrow evening. We will have a time for sharing testimonies, presenting skits, Pastor Mike and Topher will do the teaching and then we have a time for Q & A with the students along with translators.