Kids Serving Kids

September was a great month at the orphanage, there were so many things to be proud of. I visited an orphanage in Williamson back in April, which is when the idea of a kid led VBS was born. We brought the idea up at family meeting, asking if any of the kids would be interested in planning and leading a VBS program for another orphanage and more than half our kids showed up to the planning meeting. I really had no idea what to expect as this was the first time we really tried something like this.
The kids blew me away. I literally just showed up and took pictures. The kids planned and ran the whole thing, for three days!
These kids are truly amazing, watching them serve our Lord with such joy and passion brought tears to my eyes.
Our leaders split the kids into 4 groups, which then rotated around to different stations. We had a craft station, sport/game station, community health and Bible story station and a music station. Our leaders were in charge of specific stations and were absolute rock stars!
I sat in at the music station one of the days and listened as Elisson shared his testimony with the children. He shared how music has been a huge part of his life and how he hopes to use that gift to bring glory to God.  He then encouraged the children to develop their talents and pursue their dreams, whatever they may be. 
Each day on the ride home we had a debrief for the day and it was such a blessing to hear our kids share. One of our tweens shared, "I think it's really cool that I am a kid, and I get to come and serve other kids!"

At the end of our last day our kids asked all the children to come to the center of the church as they surrounded them and prayer over them, they then asked the Pastor to come forward and they surrounded him and prayed over him as well. It's moments like those that really take my breath away. To know they are growing into such Godly men and women makes it all worth it.


Peace, love and a proud momma,

Rachel


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