Rome Day 1

Hello folks,

day one is in the books. Chaos? Yes. Confusion? of course. Everything that we normally expected for day one happened. "Nothing new under the sun" said wise man Solomon. The unexpected was the numbers of kids! We plan for 100 because demographically the elementary numbers have dropped off for College Corner. But on day one we ran out of registration forms and the guestimation was we had 120 kids! Unexpected to us but not to God. I often forget that God does answer our prayers. We prayed to reach the kids in our community with the Gospel, and that is what God is doing!
I was pleased to note that out of our 7 Family Leaders all but 2 attended the training sessions. Forgive me for being negative but normally the turnout for training is very low. Not this year!
The Oxford Church of God showed up and did a fine job with the crafts. Things went well at all of our other stations too - well done! The registration went very well and kids and leaders seemed to be getting along very smoothly. Mikey and DJ did a great job as Paul and Brutus. DJ's Roman soldier costume looked fantastic! I also thought the song selections for the kids were awesome too!
Rain, rain go away. Come back another week! If the rain keeps up or things too wet at the Grove we will head off to the Methodist Church (heads up Mick!). The singing would be in the sanctuary and the marketplace in their fellowship area. The rest we will figure out when we get there.
Thank you everyone for your involvement and please pray that whatever God wants to do at this VBS - and I truly mean, whatever He wants to do, let us all be open to it. Whatever He desires to do.

Matthew 26:39 - "Yet not as I will, but as you will."