VBS

Sunday was just a blessing of fun. We served as ushers again but were able to complete our duties because the choir didn’t sing during the offering. We passed the plates together but I took the offerings to the altar. During Holy Communion I managed the rows as the people went forward to the altar. The assistants and the usher go first to commune and then the pastor goes. After we were finished, I began to invite the rows, forgetting that the pastor had not yet communed. The Lord, as He always is, was gracious and allowed a woman in the first row to notice this. We waited. All the people went and then the pastor and 1 assistant brought Communion to the elderly who can’t make it to the altar. During the sermon one elderly man felt faint, and we took him to outside of the entrance to the church. The pastor had to virtually go out the door to Commune him. I joked that I had another out in the parking lot because he had come from the very front of the sanctuary for this. We finished the worship and came home to finish preparation for the dinner with our friends. We had a great dinner of steak and visited for a while before they left for their Sunday afternoon nap. We cleaned the kitchen and then took ours. I watched the Cubs get slaughtered again and then we loaded our lawn chairs into the car and went to get our friends to go to the band concert. They had some additional friends who went with us. We enjoyed the concert and learned that the additional friends had been spies during the working careers. Rich, the male part of our dinner guests, had helped design the Stealth bomber and his friend, Lee, had been a spy for the National Security Agency. We were in high company indeed! We also learned some things about Roanoke, Virginia because Lee had grown up there. We plan to take a short trip there next weekend. How gracious the Lord is! We had been trying to learn of some things we should see while on our trip, and He brought us to someone we could talk directly with who had lived in the area. We came home and retired early. Work tomorrow.

Monday was a really slow day during the 4 hours I was there. The main manager was off today so I couldn’t talk about the break and lunch break policy. After Evelyn picked me up at 12, we came home for leftover pizza for lunch and then relaxed during the afternoon. She had ironed and removed some wax from the table cloth. The candle wax from Sunday had fallen onto it. She also found and attached some buttons to a vest she owns.
We put our sloppy joe mix into the crock pot to finish cooking it and then took it to church to serve to the VBS children. Evelyn then helped with the craft section of the activities while I was kind of the back up person for the outdoor game section. The children were divided into three groups so we played the same game three different times. All things centered around the birth of Jesus on this night. Jesus is our promised Savior was the theme of the night. I had invited one of the women I work with to bring her little girl, but she didn’t show up. The age range was 3-11 and her daughter was in that range. The evening began with dinner and then a video was shown setting the theme and a memory verse for the night. Then the children were divided into three groups and sent to different stations: crafts, games, and a station where the pastor read a story. The children don’t have much of an attention span so it is good each station is only about 20 minutes long. The evening finished with another video and prayer for the next evening. We brought our crock pot home and watched some of “The Closer” season premier before retiring to watch the news in bed. There are some vicious storms in Texas, causing terrible flooding. We got some rain this afternoon but are expecting more all this week. We really need it.