VBS!!

I had the pleasure of helping out at the VBS in Sahuaral (sah wah rawl) for three evenings this past week, and it was awesome! The teachers are totally using Kristi's curriculum complete with teaching, student books, and songs! The starting session of every day had songs, a skit, Tani and my skit on Monday and Thursday, and teaching the main lesson. Then the kids grouped off into two little kids classes, 2-4 yrs and 5-6 I believe, and two classes for the 7-11 or 12 yr olds, one for the girls and one for the boys. I helped this amazing teacher who lead the older girls class. I was definitely impressed that she actually used my help with passing out the booklets and pencils, going over the memory verse, and even coloring their class flag. After classes they all gathered back into the church for the ending session with more songs, review, and a contest between the classes for participation, discipline, and flag decoration. The coolest part of the whole VBS is that 120 kids came when only 10 of them go to Sunday School, and everyone had a blast! What really touched me was on Thursday when the lesson was to Admit your Sin and the leader of the main sessions lead them first in a prayer for God to forgive them, then lead them in a prayer of both forgiveness and Accepting Christ as their Personal Savior!!!!!! It was amazing watching so many kids pray to ask Jesus into their hearts! I don't know how many kids prayed that or how sincere they were, but I can be sure that it was more than just the 10 kids from Sunday School that both prayed and were sincere.