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| Our VBS kids and leaders |
It
has been a great month of fun and lots of work too. If I could describe this
month I would say it was one filled with lots of encouragement from the Lord. I
feel closer to God each day .He has been teaching me a lot on how to find
deeper joy in Him alone and yes at times loneliness creeps in but I learn to
trust in his companionship. His Grace alone holds me together. We had so much
fun this month conducting the Vacation Bible School in Ranchi and two other places
out of Ranchi. We had a great group of
volunteers helping us in the Vbs. It was
a three day camp for the kids and they loved it.
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| Amazing team of Volunteers for VBS |
The
theme was “Love” and the main passage was from 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. It took
more than a month and a half to prepare for this and the three days went really
well by the grace of God. The kids enjoyed learning, playing games and doing
crafts. It was a blessed time. This is my second time leading the Vbs with two
others and it has been a good experience of learning to lead well and depending
on Gods guidance each day. We had about 100 kids and it was good ministering to
them as they were hungry to learn more about God. They miss our Sunday school a
lot as right now we have stopped them due to the church construction and we as
a team continue to pray for their spiritual lives as we are unable to meet them
on a weekly basis as before.
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| Ministering in Muri - VBS program |
We
were able to minister in two other places out of Ranchi during their Vbs time
and it was an amazing experience as one of my wish was ministering to kids all
over Jharkhand as well. Each place has its own set of kids and these places had
such amazing active group of kids and it was amazing to see their heart for God
.This month we also had our youth retreat which was such an amazing time with
over 120 youths attending it. We had good sessions which were so helpful to all
of the youths and we got good feedback from the youths. God ministered to each
one of us through the speakers who came from Bangalore. It was a timely word
for the youths here. Altogether it was a good month of working for the Lord with
all that I have with kids and youths.
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| Vbs program in Jamshedhpur |
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| youth retreat -listening to a session. |
The
Lord has been so faithful to me in the small and big .I am happy that he has
brought me to the right place to minister in and I enjoy it a lot. The slum
ministry is my favorite and the kids are a blessing from God to me because seeing
their faces cheers me up. I have not been so regular in going there and
teaching them this month as I was busy with the vbs but the times I did get
with them has been encouraging and wonderful. They continue to be a great bunch
of kids with lots of love and we had good times of games and fun with them. I
have been taking some of our youths there to help us in this ministry and it
has been so good. They enjoy it a lot too. God is good all the time and I
believe it. He takes good care of His children.
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| ministry in the slum with youths teaching action song |
Some
of my prayer points would be:
*That
God would continue to help me in growing as a good leader that people can model
after through my lifestyle and trust God more in everything.
*That
the kids would continue to grow in the lord even if summer camp is over that
they would choose Jesus each day.
* For the youths to live as light wherever they
go and that they would remember what they learned in this retreat and do what
is right
