Haiti Partners,
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 elicit more sincere commitments to Christ. The pastor ended up not giving an "altar call" because he thought the kids were very young. Instead, he walked through the 3 circles again and challenged them to believe in Jesus. Here is a video of the gospel presentation.
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| 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 elicit more sincere commitments to Christ. The pastor ended up not giving an "altar call" because he thought the kids were very young. Instead, he walked through the 3 circles again and challenged them to believe in Jesus. Here is a video of the gospel presentation.
Today, we had a similar schedule, but at the end of VBS, the ministry we are partnered with purchased rice and beans for all the families of VBS kids (about 100 total). We assembled the bags before vbs (click here for the time lapse). Later, we gave out the bags to the kids. Here is a time lapse of that, and also some pictures of kids from that afternoon.
This was published far past our return but please continue to pray for the the gospel seeds to take root and grow in the fertile soil of Haitian hearts.
Thank you for your partnership!
Bronson Simmons
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