VBS

It has been far too long since I've blogged, but energy is becoming rare for this sort of thing. We are in Montana until July 7. We have been doing VBS the last to weeks and tomorrow we start a week of camp. This week we did a VBS in the morning and one in the afternoon. We had two pretty good groups of kids and it was a great week, though very tiring. I rather enjoyed getting to know the kids a little. We'll get a chance to see some of them again next week at camp along with some from our VBS a week ago. I'm looking forward to that as well. The whole team has been learning a lot about working with children these days.

One of the first days I had the pleasure of petting a dog and calling it ministry. Yes, when we went outside to do some games with our VBS crew, the neighbors' dog got very excited about all the people and started getting in the way. The only way to keep away her from the action was distraction so I sat there scratching the attention-loving pooch's tummy for about 20 minutes. The gross thing is that this dog starting licking her own butthole while I was doing this. That was somewhat appalling, so I scrubbing my hands very thoroughly when that was over. Gotta love dogs, eh?

This is the end haul for the team. We are very concerned about things such as energy and I'm searching for time for us to write and learn new dramas and stuff for a youth conference we are doing later on. We were asked to do several youth sessions at a missionary conference at Briercrest after team year is over and we all agreed, so we have that to prepare while our camp and VBS ministry is still going on. The greatest challenge at this point is maintaining an unselfish attitude while still getting the rest we need to work hard. It is very easy to either be lazy or do too much and burn out. Pray for common sense and supernatural energy.