Fun in Coshocton

Two weeks ago we were privileged to be the children's workers for the Calvary Chapel in Choshocton Ohio. Roger & Rachael McCreery are the pastor's there and we had SUCH a nice time getting to know them better and fellowshipping together. Anyways, the Lord helped us as we endeavored to teach the children how GREAT God is. We taught them about the 4 largest stars and how God's glory and power is written all through the heavens. Fascinating stuff. They had 75ish VBS'ers on their biggest night (that's not counting workers or teen helpers). Byron gave them the incentive that if they had 100 VBS kids he'd shave his head. I am MOST grateful that they did NOT have that may kids. It'd have been nice for their church but I would NOT have been a happy "Mrs." :-) God is really doing exciting things at Calvary Chapel and we need to pray for them each day!

This was an object lesson illustrating that even if only a tiny bit of something is not good, then you shouldn't participate. The bag of popcorn was good and Byron dripped just a couple tiny drops of gasoline into the bag. Of course the children suddenly did NOT want to eat any of hte popcorn.

Byron and the Boney men

Another object lesson: the glass was filthy - just caked with mud and dirt. Byron asked the little fellow if he wanted the pepsi. He did but not in that glass. So, Byron made a huge display of cleaning the outside of the glass til it sparkled. The inside was still filthy. The little fellow obviously still wouldn't touch it. So then Byron cleaned the whole glass thoroughly. It was demonstrating how we can clean ourselves up on the outside but without God cleansing us on the inside we are worthless. Just like the glass, it was worthless until it was cleaned out.

Rachael is probably the most active pastor's wife I've ever seen. She honestly put me to shame. I don't think the dear lady had more than 2 seconds to herself the whole week and she just was incredibly strong.