Hi everyone,
I posted this in the VBS directors too. Need all the prayers we can get!

I'm asking and needing prayer for our VBS this year. We rotate directors eash year. When this yr. started I was the 2nd assistant. Director and her family decided Late January to leave the church. Assistant director had never done VBS before but said she would do it and I offered all my help. After she picked theme (not this one) she said she had really been praying and God told her that I needed to do VBS this year, that He had given me the desire, excitement and ability to take over. I agreed 100% because I really wanted to do this theme.

Well since I agreed to step up satan has been everywhere I turn!!

3 other families that were very active left church, aunt died 2/20 another on 2/28, very good family friend 3/4, another 3/11, & 3/25. Church member on 4/6, another on 4/8. Brother was told he had liver cancer on 4/11, hospice called in on 4/18 cause there was nothing they could do. My son was away at college and had been struggling all year with being away from home, all the deaths and just adjusting to college life and playing both football and baseball on scholarships. I made the decision not to tell him about his uncle until he came home on May 3.

Meanwhile everytime I tried to work on VBS something went wrong, out of stock on things, overhead projector quit, etc...

Several had been praying for my brother and that he would make it long enough for his son and mine to get home on May 3, we were having a big family reunion on May 6.
On May 2 brother was in ER for a cut that wouldn't stop bleeding, he started bleeding out of his mouth, nose and throwing up blood, drs. though he would make it another couple of days at least. He was admitted to Hospice floor, we went home for a cuple of hrs. sleep and sister and I planned on going to be with him about 5 am. We get phone call at 4:15 am, he died at 4:11. Needless to say we were devastated, just a few more hrs and his son & mine would have been home. We had to go tell our mother, she's in bad health every since my oldest sister died in 2004, so she knew when sister, myself and both husbands show up at 6:30 in the morning. We then had to go pack my son up from campus for the summer and had to tell him, my sister waited on nephew to get into town to tell him.

I know God had a reason for not answering prayer of him hanging on a few more hrs. but I am having a very hard time accepting it.

Now after starting on VBS again, our dog that we have had since she was 8 wks old (almost 11 yrs) got out of the house and has been gone for 2 weeks now. I was making out order for supllies last nigh and my best friend for over 30 yrs calls and her grandmother died yesterday.

I still need nursery help, a preschool teacher and 1 regular teacher, money is getting low and I have lost alot of my excitement.

I'm sorry this is so long but stress is getting to me and I sometimes feel like my prayers aren't getting through (even though I know & believe God is in control it's still hard!)

I try not to keep wondering what is going to happen during VBS week since so much of my family is involved in serving!

Our VBS is June 18-22 during the evening. Please just lift it up in your prayers!

Thank you all so much!

You have my Prayers. It seems to me something Good is going to happen this summer with VBS in general. Your not the only one Satan is attacking. Several churchs in our area are struggling too. We are doing God's work and ALL things work together for His Glory. Just remember God is in control,even when Bad things happen. I lost my mother 2 weeks before VBS 2 years ago It's hard. Your not alone.

tiredsportsmom,

I am copying and pasting part of what I posted earlier today on another topic. I pray there is some encouragement in this:

I was just working on my Believing God study and this struck me - it is about 'by faith the walls of Jericho..' and it speaks of Joshua and what the Lord commanded him and the people to do in this days homework.
Beth said, 'Our insecurity tends to overwhelm us on the brink of something big' ;after instructing us to look again at:

"Now Jericho was securely shut up because of the children of Israel; none went out, and none came in. 2 And the LORD said to Joshua: “See! I have given Jericho into your hand, its king, and the mighty men of valor." (Joshua 6: 1-2) NKJV

I learned God had already given the city to them, before they ever even obeyed him. I know what you mean about finding God's word exciting. I am just meditating on this and chewinging on it. I am so thankful for God providing bible studies to teach us and speak to us through. I just don't see those things she points out yet. I find it takes digging deeper to see these 'secrets' that seem hidden but really are not even secrets because they are not hidden. (that statement of mine was probably clear as mud)

I am praying for you but much better: Jesus is interceding on Your behalf~ always

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Saint Deb,

I can fully understand where you are coming from. Last year on May1st my father was dia. with lung cancer. When we were told the type it was we know that he would not make it long. He did get to see all of his grandchildren and his great-grandchildren that he had never seen and my son who is in the Marines did get to come home fo 10 days. After that he went down hill fast. Everyone was praying that he would make it through VBS (beleive me, my cell phone never left my side during that week). After VBS I was able to go spend the week before Fathers Day with him and left that Sunday afternoon, that was the last time that I got to see him. He died on July 1st. Exactly 2 months to the day that we were told what was wrong.

There is nothing like trying to deal with this going on and at the same time giving everything you've got and more to make sure Gods work continues.

Remember that no matter what happens God is there and He will pull you and your family/church through this and when He does make sure that you give Him the Glory and Honor that He deserves, because without Him you wo't make it.

I willkeep you in my prayers and I amabout to leave to go to our last meeting before out VBS starts and I will ask that everyone prays for you too.

God Bless YOU