We arrived home from S.M.A.S.H. on Friday night about 8:30, just in time to do all our laundry and leave the next morning for another road trip! This time it would be to Pietermaritzburg, South Africa which is about 5 1/2 hours away.
We arrived in time for a meeting with the WOL staff and then were whisked off to the home of our hosts for the week, Ron & Louise Houghting and their 4 children, Robyn, Amy, Craig & Timothy. We couldn’t have asked for a better place to stay!!! The kids immediately took to each other, and we thoroughly enjoyed getting to know Ron & Louise. They have a heart for serving God and were a blessing and encouragement to Mary & me.
We were able to set up the church, Scottsville Baptist Church, for Holiday Bible Club on Sunday afternoon and evening, and what a transformation! We had a wooden 3-D dinosaur skeleton on stage that was about 5 1/2 ft. tall and 5 1/2 ft. long! We also built a time tunnel entrance to the meeting room. It was a dark entrance and you walked guided by runner lights through black curtains to a tunnel with black light and glowing stars and dinosaurs! We took them right “Back to the Beginning”. Our messages were all about creation. We were able to share from science and scripture that the story of Creation in the Bible is the true account, and that the earth was created in 6 literal days. We did a daily drama with the evil villain “Evil-ution” and the kids loved it!
9 of the young adults from S.M.A.S.H. joined us for this week of ministry, along with many from their church. We had 200-250 children each day, and we were able to keep the children divided into 30 groups by age, with no more than 10 in a group.
After a fun intro each day with singing and laughing, we settled into a time in the Word of God. Then the 6-9 year olds would go to crafts and the 10-12 year olds to games. Time for tea, (snacks & juice) and swap, older to crafts and younger to games.
We kept them busy from 8 until 12, winding up with a final rally to get them excited about the next day!
We enjoyed the week just as much as the students and we are looking forward to doing the same Bible Club for another church in September.
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