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Haiti update 5: VBS

Haiti Partners, This is Sarah teaching a lesson about how we are children our King. They made crowns to illustrate! Yesterday, we started out at 8am setting up for vbs. At 9am we welcomed the kids in the church with music and blowing bubbles! Amber and I (plus translator Shnyder) led 5 small groups in a lesson from 2 Corinthians 5:4-7 about how we are like jars of clay who God can use to keep his treasure, namely, himself. We decorated some small jars with funny faces for the craft. Afterward the team played games with the kids. During games I prepared with some of the  translators to share the gospel. I used the “three circles” gospel presentation that starts at creation, then describes sin, brokenness, the gospel, our response, and finally handed the mic off to the local pastor. I was asked to do this because kids will often tell missionaries what they want to hear. Instead, we are having the pastor do the closing so he can reiterate the gospel clearly and

January 2019

A few family and friends have asked if we send out something to keep loved ones updated on our life since we are separated by distance. I want to try and post/send a short update for each month that reviews something new or exciting, difficult, funny, and how you can keep us in prayer.  This is the first go at that. (This is Bronson typing, by the way) On our Kentucky "snow day" New/Exciting Since the New Year began, I went to a missions conference and took a conference course. As part of an assignment I had to interview 3 foreign nationals who are not Christians. I interviewed an Imam (a Muslim "pastor") and it was a great learning experience. I am more convinced than ever of the beauty of Christianity as the only religion where God saves us, while other religions only offer men how to obtain salvation for themselves. Here is an edited video  (for time's sake) of the interview I showed to some youth. Another exciting thing is that I was blessed