Plan B is better than plan A...

So I know I mentioned in the previous post that we would be doing a vacation bible school at a village church this week, but Sunday we learned that this would not happen.  Although we volunteered to do all the work they still felt there was not enough support for the camp and they had  not publicized it enough for kids to actually show up.  I gotta say I was a little bummed out, but as I have learned by now God ALWAYS has a plan B and His plan B is ALWAYS better than your plan A!  So plan B was to do adapt the vacation bible school for playground ministry.

So tonight the lesson was "love God", and the craft was duct tape wallets.  We decided we would explain to the kids that although we need money to survive in this world, but the most important thing was God.  We began the lesson by asking the kids what they would put in the wallets and they of course said MONEY!  We then asked them what they could buy with money.  Just as a side note to explain the mind set of the people and even the kids here when we asked kids what they could buy with money the first thing the said was beer and the second thing they said was cigarettes.  It was a bit heart breaking to hear this from small children, but its what they see everyday.  We proceeded to go through the rest of the lesson by asking what the most important thing in life was, again the kids did not give the "well-taught southern baptist kid Sunday school answer" of God, they instead said health and life.  Eventually we led them to understand the point we were trying to get across that God is the most important thing in life.

Lesson time.

Once we all went back inside and had dinner we just sat around talking.  I learned that the Ledford's have made tons of progress in this neighborhood.  When they first arrived here people hid their kids when they simply walked by.  They believed the "Baptist's ate children" and they certainly didn't believe in God.  Now, seven years later they leave their kids with them and even let them share bible stories!!  Missions in Ukraine is all about relationships.  It has taken seven years of continuous work for people to trust missionaries with their children, but with this relationship these kids can learn about Jesus!  I have been so blessed today by God's plan B!  Round 2 will be Thursday where we will learn about loving others. One more week, pray that God makes it amazing!