vbs...

rachel ward, aimee mwizerwa, and i put together a vacation bible school for the african refugee kids in town. most people dont know this, but nashville has one of the biggest refugee populations in the nation- we are very global. (besides the point, but nashville has the top US population of kurds...) anyway, we also have a huge group of africans- mostly from burundi, sudan, somalia, and rwanda. they are coming in every day. its crazy hearing them talk about where they've come from and how hard it is to acclimate into a completely different culture, education system, and way of life. can you even imagine?

aimee is...well, an angel to these people. she's from rwanda herself, and she works for african leadership ministering and serving the refugees. she helps them with everything they need- getting clothes, learning how to grocery shop, getting the kids in school, helping them learn english...you name it, she probably does it. and since she has so much on her plate, she enlisted rachel and me to help her plan vbs. its been going on this week...its been going well, but lets just say we have learned some good lessons for next year :)

believe it or not, we have had a lot of volunteers- some from local schools and also a church from pittsburg sent us some high schoolers. they've been great.

i turned my back for one minute and the next thing you know, these little punks had taken all 4 paint colors, squirted them onto the plate, and rubbed them around until it became army green...then painted their arms and started calling themselves frogs. i'd say that went well.

sweet dave has been the musical entertainment for the week...he has had some help along the way- thank you micah and wertzie! they've done great. we've resurrected "deep and wide", "this little light of mine", "i've got a river of life", and the crowd favorite, "father abraham"- when dave asked for requests this afternoon, one of the little boys shouted "jingle bells!" ...o yes we did.