Greetings Saints!
We have a short break here as day one of camp ends and Wordfest begins.
It's raining and the heat has broken; maybe 80 and a just a little humid. Thank you Jesus!
Still using Gloria's computer so am unable to respond to a lot of messages.
Pastor went to have the wound on his neck drained. Doctor was non-committal about the results of the tests and wants to wait until everything is in before saying anything.
Thank you on Pastor Isaac and his family's behalf for all your prayers and E-mails. It has been a real encouragement to him as he looks to the Lord as never before.
One thing I had forgotten to mention at the previous camp, I asked my class how many ways are there to get to heaven and how to you get there?
Every child answered, 10 ways, obey the 10 Commandments. They have been taught the law and very little about grace. At this point, lesson plan changed as we focused on One Way. Thank you Jesus for showing us that.
Please pray for that truth to really set in.
On the humorous side, on Friday we had three schedule changes and on Saturday two more. Must be flexible folks. EXTREMELY flexible. That being said, again the Camp was just fabulous.
Please be praying for our Wordfest as it begins in about 2 hours. Pray too for me as I work on the teaching for Wednesday' 2 hour talk; title "Faith on Fire". Some of you may recognize that title. Please pray for wisdom. Lord kept giving me verses and ideas making very hard to sleep as I tend to get excited about what He is giving me to share. Teaching on Bible heroes who stood strong in the faith, Joshua, David, Esther, Paul and etc and some of my heroes, Kaylyn Warren, Stephanie Nolting, Tim Merkel, and etc.
Without faith it is impossible to please God is the theme verse for that lesson tied together with having the faith of a mustard seed.
Onto Mt Carmel Camp!!
Pastor Steven spoke at the opening assembly as only he can sharing the Wordless Book and telling all the children about His Jesus.
There are 4 Fourth Grades and it was announced that instead of different classes today would be a Bible Camp for them. Kids were very excited.
FYI, the average class size is 44 students but very disciplined. Each morning the children assemble and start their day with exercises, song and prayer. Camp ran from 8 to 1:50 with 3 lessons, crafts, games and a movie.
We had two of our teens from the worship team available. The guys were asked to teach the children a song and did a great job especially considering they only had about 5 minutes notice.
We also had 4 'tweens, Sarah, one of her friends, Glory. and then two of our SBC kids; Rhythm and Divya. Steph and Jen they send their love. I have a picture of them that I am only allowed to show to you. Steph, they plan on sending you a card and Rhythm asked that I tell you she is praying for you as is Divya.
FYI, Rhythm met Jesus in 2005 and her sister, Divya, in 2007.
David, with his servants heart, led crafts, like me, not his area of gifting but with our 'tweens and the teachers help he did a fantastic job. Classes were combined so he was able to lead indoor games also; balloons, of course.
Now, the children did get yelled at during games for being too loud ) by the Vice Principal. Basically they were having fun but in their excitement got loud; we just played the games somewhat quietly. Reminds me of old Red Lion days when my Sunday School Class had to move because we were disturbing the adults under us.
The classes were fantastic to teach. I had Isaac Jr's class and what a blessing. These kids interacted and were really great to teach. Great school. It was very obvious most while knowing some answers, most really had never met Jesus.
Tomorrow, I'll be using the Gospel Bag in the assembly, so please continue to pray and we will be finishing our teaching on creation and the fall. Again, these children are a dream to teach (Really helps when the temperature is below 100!) Pray for David tomorrow as he does the Wordless Book Bracelets with crafts to reinforce the lessons. These are special kits that we have gotten that are really neat.
Now as I close and get ready for WordFest, We have a special prayer request. Three of our 'tweens will be giving their testimonies for the Junior School on Thursday and Firday as we teach the 3rd grades. Sarah Shaw, Rhythm and Divya. Yeah Merks, I'll tape it. Please pray for them, this is something they have never done before.
In closing, please really pray for our children here. On the way this morning the schools were too numerous to count, one man riding a bike with one daughter sitting sideways on the front and the other behind. These children need to know Jesus.
When we look at the huge number of children, it can be overwhelming, but as each child is taught and disciplied, it's like throwing thousands of stones in a pond, and seeing ripples everywhere and more stones are thrown and more ripples appear until they become a mighty current flowing into the hearts of millions upon millions. Please pray boldly.
Keep shining for Jesus all. Keep praying boldly and again thank you form all of us for your many fervent prayers. We can really feel them here.
Until Every Child Knows,
Big Jim
Matt. 19:14
James 1:27
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