Broken Arrow, OK - Day 4 - Update

Day 2 of VBS went even better than Day 1.  We had 32 kids today.

Today was "Dig into God's Provision"

God promises to provide for us in Philippians 4:19

God provides for us in all sorts of ways, from the roof over our heads, to the food in our stomachs and the clothes on our backs.  He also provides us with a beautiful world around us.  I shared a story with the oldest group of students today... When i was in Biology club in highschool and we went to New England, I remember looking out over the ocean from high atop a cliff, and all I could think was "God made this vast, beautiful, perfect place, and he still loved me enough to create me, flawed me, and more than that, he hears me when i prays and provides for everything I need.  How great is God?"

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I know for sure that God has been providing us with strength.  Some of the tasks we've tackled I can't believe we found the strength or energy to tackle.

The men have made great strides in remodling the storage shed into a study room.  And while it is far from where it needs to be, it has come a long way from where it was.

This morning they began demolition.  They began breaking down and removing sheet rock from the walls of the building.

By lunch time it was the shell they intended it to be. 

Next they need to put the insulation in and paneling up

Great strides were made in the foundation of the bathroom for the study room.  Grover has the joy of being the man in the whole.

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Some of the women (Theresa, Frena, Barbara, and Joann) started working on laying floor tiles after VBS (and lunch).  And even though we need to pick up more tiles, they should have the floor finished tomorrow.

While they were doing that, Ashlynn and I tackled the church's office.  It needed organized.  The pastor asked us to make it usable, we made it spotless.  We still have a few tasks to finish in there tomorrow, but then we're tackling the chapel.

We will be moving their GIANT pulpit to the back of the sanctuary so that they can use it for a sound booth, and painting an smaller pulpit to match the sanctuary to stand in place of the other one.  This will open the stage up more and give them a place to put the sound equipment.

While cleaning out the office i found the coolest piece of outdated technology.....

It wasn't all work though, we had some fun.

And Pastor Trey was acting goofy.

But the joke was on him.  Maranda and I had just finished our showers when we heard Pastor Trey yell from the men's bathroom "Does anyone have their phone with them?"

I yelled back "why".

He goes "Trevor and Snap took off with my clothes!"

I called Joann, who laughingly said she's go find her son.  In the mean time Pastor Trey kept yelling for us to tell them to hurry up.  So Maranda and I left, as we walked out of the door, i got a call from Joann, Pastor Trey's clothes were in the baby changing table.  We turned around and discovered the doors had locked behind us... and Pastor Trey had the keys to the main doors.  We didn't think anyone had a phone inside so we waited hoping Theresa who had gotten into the shower as we were leaving the bathroom would come out so we could get back in and deliver the message.

Finally Joann called back, we told her the delema, she called Ms. Barbara, and Ms. Barbara tolded Pastor Trey.

Trevor needs to sleep with one eye opened tonight.  Haha.

Now it's time to rest before another long night (we're having parents night at the church in the evening and inviting all the kids and their parents back for dinner. WooHoo Cookout!)