While I was meditating on what to preach to the kids from our story today it came to me that this was a long awaited day for the Father. After all it was His plan that Jesus die in order to secure a family. It is unfortunate that man sinned and became lost, but I am so glad that's not the end of the story. Many of the children are familiar with the death of Jesus, but do not know much more than that. Well, today we took them further. We reenacted some of the story of His death and resurrection. It was moving. We are believers that it is so much better to bring the stories to life than only using words. It is more fun too! We played some cool sound effects from the keyboard that added another dimension to the show. Alexis played Jesus and did a convincing job. We had our new centurion costumes and our new angel costume today. After the 'show' we preached a simple gospel message and centered on three points: 1) Family, 2) Substitution and 3) All for Love . At the end we prayed a mass prayer. It was a good day for salvation. The Lord worked with us to secure the eternal destinies of those present today. It was cool!
In the A-Kids we preached from IJohn 5:14-15 and focused on two points, 1) Getting God to hear us and then 2) Praying the will of God. If we do #2 then we get #1 which means God will grant our desire. It was a lot of fun. I ask them questions while we are teaching just to locate them. It's amazing sometimes how simple answers can become so complicated by religion. Some of our kids are moving away, and we are sad about that. We just put as much as we can into them for the time that we have them. We will miss them though.
Thanks for all who make this possible, you know who you are! Here are some more pics. With love, Mark & Verna
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