Great news and VBS

Yahooo! The weddings are over! Now, moving on to Vacation Bible School!
We finally decided a date for our Avalanche Ranch VBS, Aug. 20th-22nd.
We're planning to have a big ol' cowboy cook out on Sunday afternoon to finish up our "wild ride through God's word". It's going to be a fun time teaching kids that "God is real" as we spend 3 days at Avalanche Ranch.

The Biggest news for now, however, had taken place on Tue., July 1st.
Pastor Perry and his wife (that would be me) had been teaching a bible study to 3 young men, ages 18-20. Every Tue., we go to their house in Sherrodsville and teach for about an hour; really, I just tag along and listen, but it has been so awesome to teach young people who are actually hungry for God and truly want to know more about him! After the 3rd bible study, the two of them, who had not been baptized in Jesus' name, decided they wanted to be baptized. Joe said "Awesome! When?" They said "Right now!" Joe said Ok, where?" They said 'Well, we know the perfect spot down at the lake"--- so off to Leesville Lake we went, packing towels. We prayed before they went into the water, and one of the guys was crying and said "I really feel God so much right now". So, into the water they went... Pastor Perry in his jeans and t-shirt.
He baptized Jimmy in the name of Jesus , and when he came out of the water, he lifted his hands and began to worship God. Just a few moments later, we all witnessed him being filled with the Holy Ghost as we heard him speaking in tongues!! It was completely awesome! We wouldn't have missed being a part of that for anything.
We are continuing with the bible study each week on Tue. What a privilege it is to teach God's word.

The day they were baptized, during the bible study, Pastor had taught them the story of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch found in Acts 8:27-39. Philip heard the Ethiopian reading from Esaias - he asked "Do you know what your are reading?" The Ethiopian responded "How can I understand unless someone explains it to me first?" So Philip began to preach to him about Jesus as they were riding along in the chariot. The Ethiopian's response to his preaching about Jesus was: "See, here is water, what doth hinder me to be baptized?" (Acts 8:36) As soon
as this truth of baptism was shown to him in the scripture, he wanted to be baptized!
That was the response we got from Jimmy on July 1st..."I want to be baptized --- now!"

I wrote a blog quite some time ago on baptism. If you would like to know more about the subject, you can check the archives.

Good day to you all --- God bless.