FBC's Arkansas Mission Team Update

Hi, today was a Wal-Mart Wednesday. Yes that’s right, how can you visit Bentonville Arkansas without seeing the original 5 and 10 cent store. For those of you that don’t know, that was Sam Walton’s (founder of Wal-Mart)first store. We toured the museum, saw the old hats and buttons and general Wal-Mart memorabilia. After taking several pictures we headed out to the Promenade.

The Promenade is a massive shopping center. It’s quite frankly a shopping ladies dream spot. You name it they have it. It was with many sighs of longing we drove away after only a brief time there. We returned to the hotel changed into VBS gear and headed for Lifespring. Tonight had several highlights for the kids. The craft tonight was sand-art, but not your father’s sand art, it seemed closer to mud pies that they got to decorate. They were awesome, the kids in my group had a lot of fun decorating the doughy circle;I joined in and made one, it will be my one and only paper weight when I return home. I must admit that I feel bad for the crafteers that had to clean up the glitter add-ons to the paper weight sand art, it made a lovely myriad of colors all over the table,  chairs and floor.

The games brought into play the always beloved big ball. From what I am told the 1st-3rd graders were very aggressive shoving the ball over the line, several were flatten but all seemed in good humors and there were thankfully no injuries.  After big ball all the kids got to chuck water balloons at Dr.SCUBA. A hint to adults and helpers, stay inside or out of view when giving children water balloons. Soon anyone or thing becomes an inviting target.

Now to the best news of the evening. After praying for the children everyday this week, a young boy named Stewart, who we have been especially praying for, accepted Christ as his Lord tonight. It was a tremendous blessing and we thank the Lord for His goodness.

Well that pretty much closes up everything and what a good way to end a post.