Things are really starting to pick up here for our little TREK Team and friends here in Baguio...
We had a busy weekend full of Bible Studies, Youth groups, and leading worship services! With Ralph and Sean gone, two of our go to guys we had our hands full, but we were busy in the best sense of the word. Friday evening myself, Brittany, and Grace led a bible study with a bunch of the community kids which pretty much happened spontaneously. We talked about Peter and Jesus walking on water and by the end of it two of the older boys there decided they wanted to accept Christ! Niko, one of the kids even gave me a big hug afterwards haha.
Sunday was a day that I felt pretty close to being overwhelmed, but in the end it was so fulfilling. It started with me and Chris getting up early to set up the worship service. It seems Ralph and Sean prepared us well because we got things underway pretty smoothly. I had to prepare a morning devotion for the team, as well as prepare a few little details for the service. We then remembered that we had promised earlier in the week to go to Tita Liza's house to pick up her 17-year old son named Christian and (quite literally) carry him to church. They told us that he had autism but it seems more like Cerebral Palsy, regardless he's a cool kid. Cheerfully he rode on me or Chris's back in alternating fashion.... and we found out that going up is a lot longer than going down haha. We ended up getting back in timely fashion 10 minutes before service started, just in time to get changed into some dry clothes =)
The rest of the day was again awesome but tiring. Our team led the worship singing alongside Grace who was rockin out on the drums as usual. First at Balacbac church whose appreciation for us has been a very steady encouragement. And then after at Ambiong Church where we received an energetic message from Pastor Ambuang (?). After two services we were all pretty drained... but it was on to VBS Prep!
Ah... VBS
"WE ARE CHAMPIONS! CHAMPIONS FOR GOD! I'LL FOLLOW WHERE HE LEADS, UNTIL HE COMES FOR ME!"
Probably one of the worst "tune wedgies" I have ever gotten stuck in my head, with actions and everything. Anyways, Sunday night we frantically prepared materials for the ensuing week of VBS at Camp 7 Elementary School. We were all a little tired, nervous, and yet excited all at the same time. For a little while it seemed like we would be a very understaffed, but after some praying God found us some more teachers. This has been an exciting opportunity for the Camp 7 Redeemed in Christ Church (this is the name of the Church we are a apart of here, but we are working with the Camp 7 Branch this week) because this is the first time a public school has allowed a VBS Program to be held in the public school system in Baguio! We're praying that this will leave a good impression on the teachers as well as plant some seeds in the students, and open doors for the future.
So after Day 2...
To be honest I'm really surprised at how well the kids are behaved for the most part. We started the first day with an almost 1 hour long intro sessions with everyone standing in a line! We sang through some favorite songs such as "Champions for God" and "Tendon tendon... (You and Me)" and I got to demo some actions up on the big stage along with Cha and Pastor Eric. The rest of the program ran pretty smoothly with the exception of a few schedule changes. Its kinda funny to get greeted when you walk in the class with
"HELLO TEACHER! GOOD TO SEE YOU TODAY! MABUHAY!! (long life)"
Anyways, we're trying to dig a little deeper than the VBS materials go with the whole God's Champions thing (talking about the olympic games as well as the lives of Peter, Paul, Barnabas, John Mark, and Timothy). We're hoping we don't get run down by the end this week because April is going to be a much busier week. So far God has been faithful and I have no reason to doubt that He won't continue to be...
Until next time!
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