Tuesday and Wednesday

Praise God again for His faithfulness! Our team continues to be safe and God continues to use us for His purposes here in Belize. Today will be a sad day for many as it is our last day of VBS. Relationships have fomed quickly and leaving and knowing we may never see most of these kids again will be tough. But God is faithful. Our hope is not in ourselves but in Him and we trust that He who has began a good work in the lives of some children here will be faithful to complete it.

Over the last couple days, many of our students have had their first opportunity to play an active role in a young person being saved by Jesus. The gospel was given to the kids especially clearly yesterday and many of the older kids were able to share with our students their understanding of Christ's death in our place and the need for us to respond with faith and repentance. It's hard to put #s on it due to the kids who ask to pray to accept Christ every day and the difficulty understanding all the kids but we can just be grateful that God seems to be bringing many students to Himself.

Our team's health: Praise God for His protection of our team up to this point. With the exception of annoying bug bites and a couple short-lived stomach issues, we are very healthy. Sara and Courtney are both dealing with some stomach issues this morning so you can be in prayer for them.

We could have 200 kids at VBS in Pomona this afternoon so pray for things to go smoothly. We had a good testing on Tuesday as we had to deal with a good number of behavior issues. It gave us an opportunity to spend some time on Tuesday evening learning about how to love and guide kids in that situation. By God's grace, Wednesday went much better.

The pictures in this post are from both VBS and from a tree near the Macaroni View where we are staying. Stony Ferguson, son of the owners climbed a tree so that a few of us could experience drinking the milk from a fresh coconut. The hospitality of our hosts (Pastor Wayne and Carla, Pastor Chester and Noelia, and Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson and their whole family) has been such a blessing.

After the last day of VBS today, our long days of work get replaced with opportunities to see God's glory in different ways. We are really looking forward to meeting up with our team from Punta Gorda (we have not seen them yet) to go snorkeling tomorrow. Many on our team are also excited about going to a Belizean wedding tomorrow night in Pomona as Miss Carmen (whose yard we are meeting in for our Hope Creek VBS) has invited us all to her wedding.

Thanks for praying for us. Our team continues to experience great unity and God continues to show us His glory and His faithfulness.