Saturday July 15, 2006

Bible School

White Oak Church of the Brethren

We weren’t able to attend every evening due to being in Maine on Monday and Tuesday, but made sure we were there on Thursday and Friday evening when two of our grandsons were in charge of devotions.

 Josh (age 11) opened with devotions on Thursday evening.

Nathan (age 13) accepted the challenge on Friday evening.

 It is a blessing to have grandchildren who are willing to be in charge of devotions in front of 500+ people – and neither sounded nervous.  Cerwin didn’t think he would have been brave enough to do that when he was their age.

Our son Jere is one of three Bible School superintendents.

The items behind him represent projects for which we raised funds  – more than $35,000 – for several of our young people and missionary couples serving the Lord around the world.  (Bibles for China; a gator for South Carolina; books for Haiti; vehicle repair for Brazil; fuel for Kenya; computer upgrade and Internet service for Irian Jyra; and language training for Northern Africa)

A broad view of the church on Friday evening before the children went to their classes.  Jere said we averaged 350 children each night and 150 adults.  The adults consisted of teachers and those in the adult class.  All photos were taken from the balcony.