July 2010

VBS & Revival

These are two activities many people look forward to every year. VBS gives us a chance to share God with the children of our community in a fun-filled, safe and comfortable environment. It also give us an opportunity to spend some time getting to know the new members of the visiting team and to catch up with those who are not-so-new to the VBS experience. Plus we also have our revival services this same week in the evenings. We had a new team this year for VBS and it was good because although we look forward to seeing our old friends but like making new ones too. They worked well with our Sand Hill volunteers and were even able to be a part of our revival service for the first night. Once again, we invited Pastor Williams to speak and this time he even brought his church along to visit with us. We had a busy week doing VBS in the daytime and Revival in the night-time but it left us with a good feeling. When you get involved in doing God's work it normally does that to you.


Camp 2010

"Joseph's Journey from Prison to Palace" was indeed a blast. Our Methodist Protestant Church Camp 2010 was held at Kindred Spirits from July 19th - 23rd this year and we had approximately 97 persons at camp this year. It was a spirit-filled week for both the campers and the volunteers and God's blessing and guidance was clearly visible as every dart thrown our way by Satan hit a brick wall. The excitement that came with having it at a different location than previous years, plus the thought of minimal sleep, endless activities and good food all in a spiritual environment was certainly something the youths were looking forward to. Just getting there was an adventure in itself as we had so many campers that we had to get a separate truck just to take the luggage to the camp site.

Our volunteers did an exemplary job; working hard to set up their area from the night before and helping out in other areas when the need arose. They woke up early, went to bed late and just kept going, and going, and going ... Our cooks must be mentioned as they provided us with three delicious meals everyday for the entire week, topping it off with a grand turkey dinner and desert the last night.

For the nightly services we had a special worship team from the Cayo area come in to lead us in songs and testimony and our speakers, Rev. Louis Wade and Pastor Scott Stirm touched the heart of our youths with their messages that it brought them to tears. Many of our youths from the different churches made a commitment to Christ at camp this year and we need to keep them in our prayers and under our wings. Some of them even ended up on Plus TV, a Christian TV Station owned by Rev, Louis Wade, sharing their experience at camp this year and testifying about what God has done in their lives. Of special mention is that for the first time this year we had youths from Fireburn attend camp. We were blessed by their presence and they also received a blessing at our Methodist Protestant camp 2010. We know that they will be back next year for sure.

Our youths are the future of our church and having a week filled with Christian activities planned especially for them goes further that anyone of us can understand or imagine. We got a little taste of that this week ... but isn't that so like God; his blessing are so bountiful that we cannot begin to understand or imagine them. Ephesians 3:20 (King James Version) Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.