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.

Hello, I know this is late but it’s been fun and crazy up here.

I decided to start this blog with a briefing for those of you who are reading this and have no idea what is going on First the team is ministering at Lifespring Baptist Church in Bethel Heights Arkansas, near Bentonville AK, and we are assisting in hosting a VBS during the week. The theme for the VBS is Seaquest, it’s the same theme Faith Baptist is doing later this summer. Our team leader is Pastor James Wooten, the other members of the team are: (in family alphabetical order) Claire Borg, Ryan Borg, Stephanie Borg, Larry Clarke, Carol Clarke, Becky Hicks,  Teri Pate, Joshua Pate, Claudene Wooten, Christina Wooten, and Catherine Wooten.

Pastor Wooten is our fearless leader and van driver.  Mrs. Borg, Mrs. Pate, and Mrs. Wooten are the teachers of the 4th-6th grade, 1st-3rd grade and 4-5 year old classes respectively. Becky Hicks is our crafts leader, Mr. Clarke is Dr.SCUBA.  Mrs. Clarke is heading up registration.  Joshua Pate is the game director. Ryan Borg is our handy man. Stephanie Borg is the Store manager and Catherine and Cristina are our resident singing duo. We float around and help where ever we are needed from games to registration, the main idea is being willing to help.

Alright now on to day 2. We started out spending some free time at the hotel, prepping materials, organizing papers, printing help sheets. We headed to the Dillons’ house for lunch and then went to the church to prepare the craft and then, out to canvas some more neighborhoods and parks. We returned to the hotel ate dinner and came back to the church for VBS.

Day 2 saw several new faces and different crafts and games. With games such as sharks & minnows and octopus tag everything seemed to keep with our deep sea theme. The kids seemed even more excited and looking forward to the rest of the week. After VBS was finished we held a prayer time for the children and the whole VBS in general.

We headed to an ice cream store-Braums-and had a kind of after glow with the Dillons. Just in case anyone was wondering Braums has Amazing ice cream! Their peanut butter cup was killer and they have tons of different flavors. The fellowship was as sweet as the dessert and we soon found ourselves running out of time. The night wrapped up and we all headed to our separate abodes and called it a night.

As will I, Good-night and God bless.