After breakfast, we loaded up our 15 suitcases on our bus and headed out to the orphanage at about 8:30, arriving a little after 9. We set up for VBS in the middle of a power outage. At ten, the twenty or so orphans living here left their classrooms to begin VBS while Kloe took the teachers to train them. As soon as the last child stepped into the chapel, the lights came back on, so symbolic of Jesus bringing light to the world. This is one of the problems facing Serving Foundation, as the landlord at the orphanage did not want Knoble Academy to teach any of the non-resident students or allow them to come in to the facility. Tim is now deciding what is next step should be, move to a new location he has located but needs a couple of months of renovation or pray for the landlord to change his mind. Pray for discernment for Tim. Pray also for Pastor Joel's daughter's (Shiney) husband's brother. He has just been admitted to the hospital after blood test shows his platelet at a very dangerously low level of 18 (not unlike Pastor Hsiung's wife, Grace's aplastic anemia levels when she was severely sick). We prayed for his healing and for Shiney before she left to go to the hospital to minister to him.
The VBS program begins with Sing and Play and continues to games, Bible adventures, kidvid cinema, and crafts that supported our daily lesson that "Jesus gives us hope!" We will be doing this for the next three days, so we have condensed the five days of VBS into four days. Each day's session takes up four to five hours a day, so including lunch break, we stay at Knoble Academy and the orphanage until about 2:45 PM before returning to the hotel to rest and debrief. We then went to the Calvary Baptist Church, one of the oldest churches in Bangalore to present our program. The service started about 45 minutes late, giving us time to warm up and practice the puppet skit. The room is about the size of a very large living room with great acoustics, seating 60-70 and there were perhaps 50 in the audience. Their choir, consisting of one man and three women sang two songs. Their music was very interesting, sounding quite exotic with half tone tonality and sung with great passion and worship. We only recognized a few words like Jesu. We then sang mostly acapella songs, including the Victoria Sanctus and Jordan and Rachel volunteered to give their testimonies. Both testimonies were about being raised in Christian homes and how each found God to be real for them, through a mentor and learning how God heals when she prayed, respectively. It turns out this was exactly the situation most of the congregants found themselves in, as we found out some followed their parents or grandparents to church. After Tim's powerful message, many came to ask for prayer. Among those Tim and Kloe prayed for, several felt "slain" by the power of the Holy Spirit and fell or had to sit down. Even though we were asked not to do an invitation, an elderly couple came up and asked to receive the Lord (they were among those who fell during prayer). PTL, this was clearly only something only God could do! We ate a quick dinner prepared by Pastor Joel's sister and returned home tired after another long day while Tim took a cab to pick up Calida. By the way, we saw Shiney and found out her brother in law's the blood levels had doubled, PTL, but keep praying. Thank you for upholding all of us so that we have been able to endure these long busy days and still stay reasonably healthy.
Picture of VBS at Knoble Academy and praying for Pastor Joel's daughter, Shiney before she left to minister to her brother in law
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