The Power of Prayer

For those of you who do not know me, I am Carolee Wylie, the Vacation Bible School director, and I wanted to talk to you about prayer and just how powerful it is!

As many of you are aware, our economy is having various struggles which leads to a domino effect with personal finances. Due to several cutbacks, our church’s VBS program was informed there was a chance that we would not have the budget for the 2011 VBS program. After hearing that, and knowing that each year our VBS program gets better (last year’s was one of the biggest and best summer programs in our church’s history), I was completely heartbroken. I, as many others, began to pray about this burden on our hearts.

We asked for guidance and support from God, as the VBS program has helped our church minister to local families and children who, in their own lives, might be on a “vacation from God”. Several of our families who started out attending VBS have decided to make our church their home and have joined as parishioners.

Well, I am here to tell you that God answers prayers. While we have not met the budget needed to have the HUGE program we had in past years, we have received enough donations to have the program and to continue our ministry to local families and young children right here in our church.

I, along with many of the Vacation Bible School volunteers, will continue to place our “Faith” in God and continue to allow Him to work his miracles, but for now, I wanted to say “Thank You”! Thank you to those who support the VBS program and have donated or plan to donate towards the 2011 VBS program.

As of now, we are planning to ask each participant to pay $10 to participate in the week’s program which will cover shirts, activities for the whole week and a daily mid-morning snack. If a family has more than two children we will not ask more than $25 per family; if persons are working the VBS program for the week, they will not be asked to pay.

If you are in a financial place where you feel you can do more to help our program or support a child for $10 for a week of God’s love and guidance, we would be grateful. If you or your family are not at a financial place where you can help with a monetary donation, then I ask you to join along with the VBS volunteers in praying daily that God will continue to work His marvelous blessings.

I want Satan to know that he will not defeat our VBS ministry, and we want to be able to tell you at the end of the summer that 2011 was the BEST VBS in our church’s history and that we were able to minister to double the families and children that we did last year.

Thank you and blessings to you, and your family in the upcoming Lent/Passover season.

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