VBS of a Lifetime

Praise the Lord!! Wow! Once again the Lord has blessed and thousands have surrendered their lives to Jesus in places where you and I may never go! God is so good! This year HEA totally supplied VBS for 25,000 children in 250 different remote mountain churches! With your help we were able to supply the teaching materials, crafts, candy, 500 puppets that match this years VBS theme and the puppet programs on CD! After more than 6 months of planning and preparation it all comes together in one of our “Leadership with a Purpose” seminars. As you can see we totally filled HEA’s World Operations Center with Pastors & their Children’s Leaders! Rebecca Archer of Arrow International Ministries partners with HEA every year to make these Vacation Bible Schools possible in these 250 poverty stricken churches. In many of these mountain villages they could never have any materials at all for a VBS. Rebecca works on developing the plan for the lessons, the crafts, the puppet programs etc. all year long. When it is ready, HEA begins purchasing the materials. The actual VBS (including all of the individual craft pieces) consists of over 1,000,000 individual pieces!! Glory!!

7,653 Children, Moms & Dads Surrendered Their Lives to Jesus in 250 Missions!

Here is a small portion of what the local pastors had to say about the “VBS of a Lifetime … 2008”:

Pastor: Arnulfo Villaseca (Ocosingo) … “The VBS had a big impact on the children and what they learned they are now sharing with their parents. Rocio won her parents for Jesus because she was coming to the VBS. Now her parents attend our church!!”

Pastor: Tomas Santiz (Santo Domingo) … “It was the first time that we had VBS in the community of Santo Domingo. There was only one family that knew Jesus. The members of that family invited all of their friends & family and during the VBS 80 people surrendered to Jesus! At the end of the VBS we started a new mission in this place, glory to God!”

Pastor Alfonzo Perez (Huixtan) … One of the little boys in VBS went to his teacher. He was crying and told her, “I want to receive Jesus in my heart but I want that my family can do it also because my dad is an alcoholic and my brothers and my mom we all suffer so much!” … The teacher told him that with God nothing is impossible and God will save your family! They prayed together that day. The last day of our VBS his parents came with him and the whole family was saved!! Now they are very happy serving the Lord!

Pastor Sanchez (Chilon) … Griselda said that she and her mother walked 2 hours every day to be in VBS … Griselda wrote a note for her pastor, “My mom and I received Jesus as our savior during the VBS and we are so happy knowing the Lord’s path!”

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