Vacation Bible School

We just finished a week of VBS here in Sydney, Nova Scotia. I mentioned that I would like to help at the beginning of the summer, but once the time came around, I have to admit that I wasn't really looking forward to it. (Yeah, the truth from a pastor's wife).  I mainly wasn't looking forward to it because my job is working with kids all year, and in the summer, I like to have a break.  I was also skeptical about the week because we have zero children in this church, so we were relying completely on posters that we hung up around town to bring the kids in, and I just wasn't hopeful that that would happen. However, it turns out that this week was one of the best weeks of my summer. I had 5 kids in my class (ages 7-9), and it was a joy to teach these children about God and salvation. Three of my students had little to no knowledge about the Gospel, and it was a learning process for me to introduce these kids to the Bible. Because I have lived in the "Bible Belt" most of my life, I was amazed at how these kids didn't even know the "Sunday School" answers, and it was exciting to teach them and see their eyes light up when I gave them a Bible.  I was also amazed at how these kids got up, got dressed, and wandered to our church on their own to learn --- they were so eager! I was blessed beyond measure this week, and for that I'm thankful!