Welcome to another week!
Sixty active children attended Vacation Bible School at Fallowfield United Methodist Church last week. The kids had fun playing with water balloons, singing pop-style songs about Jesus, making crafts, and learning about God’s ultimate plan for their lives: salvation through Jesus.
We raised money for Caring Hands in India, an orphanage for the children of devadasis, Indian temple prostitutes. Both the devadasis and their children are considered worthless slaves.
Arun and Shobha Massey provide shelter, education, food, and hope in Christ for these children at their mission, Caring Hands. They also teach the devadasis how to sew, providing them a career other than prostitution.
Not one child who has lived at Caring Hands has become a prostitute. The safe place the Masseys provide and the hope Jesus gives has changed their lives.
Just as the Masseys reach out to the children in their community, Vacation Bible School is a way to minister to the children in the Atlantic community. Our goal is helping the children in our community understand that the only real hope in life is hope in Christ. We want to see them come to church regularly and learn that church members can become an extended family.
This Saturday is Independence Day. It affords us an opportunity to thank God for the United States of America, where people are free to worship God, express popular or unpopular opinions verbally or in writing, assemble to support or protest anything they want, and use their money as they see fit.
Americans may travel and live anywhere we want to in our country. We may choose our careers and raise our families in our preferred community. God has given us the freedom to do these things in America, and for that I am grateful. I hope you are, too, and will praise him for these freedoms this week.
Have a wonderful week. Blessings!