Life after VBS

Thanks for your prayers for our VBS June 15-20. The theme was LifeWay's Boomerang Express--It All Comes Back to Jesus. We ended the week with an Outback Carnival for kids and parents on Saturday evening, complete with a three-in-one bounce house, rock wall, and slide. If you're interested, check out the photo slide shows of the week on our church blog. Four college-aged missionaries serving in Las Vegas for the summer were here during the week to help us. One of the girls, Erika, stayed in our home for the week. We praise the Lord for their help.

Center row (from left to right): Mamie from Mississippi, Claire from Mississippi, Erika from Georgia, and Joy from West Virginia

The most important result of the week is that 11 boys and girls made professions of faith in Christ! As a follow-up, we will offer a new Christian's class for kids on the next two Mondays from 10 a.m. to noon. Please pray for these boys and girls and their families.

This week Jane began a certified nursing assistant (CNA) course at the hospital in our county. The course involves 60 class hours, 40 clinical hours, and three 12-hour shifts in the hospital before taking the state certification test. Incredibly, the course is free with the hospital even covering the cost of the test. The only cost to Jane is her time, the gas it takes to travel 30 minutes to the hospital (although she is carpooling with three others), and some scrubs (uniforms). We praise the Lord for this opportunity and are anxious to see how He will use this in our future.

We're making plans now to take a family vacation the first week of August. There's plenty to see and do in just three or four hours away and we'll keep you posted as the plans are finalized.

Thanks, again, for your prayers for the ministry here.

VBS

Vacation Bible School is this week at church. We are blessed to have the help of four summer missionaries this week in addition to the many in our body who are lovingly serving this week. We had 42 children today and hope to see this number grow each day! Pray for us this week and especially on Wednesday as Mitch shares the gospel with kids. If you're interested, we're posting daily pictures from VBS on our church blog (www.bereanbaptistpioche.blogspot.com).

Thanks for your continued prayers for us and the ministry here.

4-H Horsemanship

Nicole started her first day of 4-H Horsemanship at Camp Camelot at Amazon Ranch (a horse ranch in our area). Every morning until noon this week she gets the opportunity to learn about, care for, and ride horses. Here are a few pictures below:

In other news, sometimes you can bring back more than you take off when you go to the dump. Mitch found this basketball goal at our dump this weekend and was greeted with cheers from Jane and Nicole as he brought it home. If you're wondering, the rim and the base are broken and the net is torn. But after a new rim and net from Walmart and a 300 lb. rock from our yard to weigh the base down, it'll be as good as new! Add church kids (and their parents?) and it ought to be a lot of fun. Anybody up for a game of Horse? (Pun intended.)