Lakehaven and VBS at Newell

During the week of July 19-25, I was assigned to go to Lakehaven, a Baptist mission house and help do a VBS at Newell.

At Lakehaven, when I first arrived, I was a big surprised to see how young the kids were there. Lakehaven was run by a woman named Ann Crawford, who had a great heart for kids. The kids were in the ages of 3-6 years old. Mrs. Crawford had a schedule were they were doing crafts, sports, and learning while also teaching them about Christ.

At the Vacation Bible School at Newell, I was in charge of the Youth Group. On average, we had around 8-12 kids there each day. It usually started with dinner, followed by rec, then by game time, and finally the lesson. We started playing many games, such as King Mao, Spoons, and Mafia. The kids really seemed to enjoy the games that were set up. On Friday night, the last night of VBS, I was able to take the entire Youth group to go bowl, which was a lot of fun for everyone there. A few of these kids really impressed me with there knowledge of scripture, and there heart to lead others to Christ. It was great to see some Youth, which is a very hard age to reach be in love with Jesus already to the point that they can't wait to try and lead others to him.