Please Pray for VBS!!!!

For the past few days we have been working very hard to prepare for the Hinton Baptist Vacation Bible School. VBS began on Wednesday and will go through Friday. Our theme is Polar Extremes--All of me, all out for God. The lessons are about men in the Bible who were extreme in their trust, obedience, and love for God. Ben and I have been helping to get the games, craft, and songs together. Ben will be leading the games, I am helping with the singing, and I think we will all be needed for our exciting craft!!! We are making concrete stepping stones with the kids' hand prints on them. Each day they will complete a different phase: day one they build the frame, day two they pour the concrete into the frames and make handprints (fun!), and day three they decorate!!! I think it will be a blast!

Ben had to pre-assemble every frame to make sure that the pieces fit.

He got off easy; the kids have to use regular screwdrivers!

Very late on the night before, we realized we were going to have to do something more to set the "chill" for polar extremes......a little hard to do when the temps have been going as high as 80! (which is a scorcher around here!!!) We were limited because we are setting up under a tent and we can't leave any of our supplies there. Nonetheless, we finally came up with some cute props that helped to get the point across.

We ran to the world-wide-web

and found some quick-n-easy snowflake patterns

Here's Ben cutting out the "igloo" with his pocketknife.

He gets to use all of the fun tools!

After long hours, Kellie comes up with a pretty convincing igloo.

(It looks even more convincing with cotton "snow" around it!)

We've managed to fill up the days and hours with everything from handing out flyers, to baking cookies, to experimenting with crafts, to making song visuals...and the list goes on!

Thank you so much for keeping up with us, your prayers mean the world to us!!! God is at work here, despite the difficulties! We are praying that He will do what only HE can!

Pray that the Lord will bring children out and that we can reach their families! We had 13 children for our first day. There is much around here to compete with VBS, but we are hoping since most of the school activities and sports events are ending, children will be looking for something to do.