Sunday was a wonderfully full day here in Wyoming! We enjoyed hearing another missionary we know present the work he felt called to during Sunday School. Our family sang for the morning service and then Mom and I taught children's church. After lunch at the church we stuffed 4,000 door hanger bags with John and Romans, church invites, etc. From there we walked across the street to sing at the nursing home and ended up visit with a gentleman who lives there until it was time to run to another church's 5:00 service. We then raced to slip into the 6:00 service (we were a bit late) of yet another church where we stayed and visited with the people and pastor and his wife for an additional hour and a half. It is wonderful to see the way the Lord is working in the churches in this area. One has a new pastor that is on fire to reach every home in Douglas, one had just had a wonderful, heart challenging missions conference where they saw two souls saved, and one has made great strides in their building project since we were there two years ago and is seeing families added and steps of growth in those attending. What a mighty God we serve! We will be doing presentations in two of these churches next Sunday as the Lord allows. 

Looking back over the three summer months, we thank God for His faithfulness, for the spiritual growth we saw in so many, and for the twenty-two children we saw make professions of Jesus as Saviour during the ten VBS’s and one camp this summer. More than 335 children came to VBS and camp this summer to be taught the King of My Castle curriculum. We had more than 550 people involved, including teens and adults.

It was exciting to share the glory, victory, power, greatness, and majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ, Who is King over all kings and over all His creation; and to challenge each one to make Him truly their personal King. One day everyone bow the knee to Him. We pray that all those that heard the message of King of My Castle will submit to Him for salvation and service before it is too late.

It was great to watch as many of our hearers realized for the first time that dinosaurs were called dragons, and yes, people did see and interact with dinosaurs. We did not live millions of years apart. Dinosaurs were created by God; they were not a product of time and chance. It was exciting to praise God together for His creation as He has commanded.

It was a blessing to work with each church and see the people get involved by helping us set up and decorate the church, being willing to wear royal and knightly costumes, bravely acting out the dragon legends, taking pictures,
helping with the children in registration, nuncheon, tutelage, and tournament time, and helping with tearing down and packing up! The encouragement and care we received were uplifting throughout the summer. 

Praise our Creator King for showing that He is still on the throne and actively working to draw hearts to Himself!

For more pictures from VBS go to the Summer Schedule tab!

We are thanking the Lord for the three VBS weeks we have enjoyed so far. Next week we will be teaching our VBS material at a small church-run camp outside of Panama City, Florida. Please be in prayer for the campers and staff. There have been some real struggles to overcome, including theft and possible sabotage. This is a truly God-honoring camp and it is a joy to work with them. We are all trusting God to work mightily in hearts and lives during this junior week and later on at teen camp.

Here is a picture of last year's junior week at Camp Victory.

VBS 2013 - King of My Castle!

We praise our King for enabling us to begin our summer ministry of teaching Vacation Bible Schools and for those individuals and churches who helped this summer get off to a great start!

We are excited as we see the Lord working!

We are currently in the middle of our third VBS.

Next week we teach at a CAMP and then seven more VBS's!

Praise God!

Please be in prayer that our family, the many churches and helpers, and the children will be open to God's Word and that Jesus Christ would have His way in our hearts and lives!

May Christ be the King of your heart's castle.

Here is a glimpse of VBS!

We hope to post more VBS pictures later! May Christ be praised!

It was great to attend the first Annual 

Heartland Baptist Missions Candidate School

 to encourage and meet the new missionary candidates.

WHAT IS NEW WITH C2C?

Christ is the King of 
my Castle!

We are busily writing our new Vacation Bible School Curriculum
 for 2013 
and already can't wait to teach it!

We appreciate the prayers of 

The King's subjects on our behalf. We want it to be effective in the lives of those who take part in 
VBS this summer!

As Bach and many classical composers wrote on their blank manuscript pages

J.J. = Jesu Juva  

"Help me, Jesus!"

CREATION ADVENTURE WEEK!

One of the most demanding and rewarding ministry opportunities last year was our first Creation Adventure Week, which we held during a Chinese Retreat. 

We taught our VBS curriculum plus many additions

 for five days December 21-25 

to about 170 Chinese children grades 3-6.

Thankfully, the children all understood English. It was a privilege to be allowed to teach them, and we trust that it gave them a greater understanding of the Christian worldview, their need for repentance, and the one way of salvation through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. They had a lot of questions that we were able to address both during teaching times and some one on one. Thank you to our many friends who were praying over this time of ministry and those who assisted us in registering, sitting among, and counseling children. God was at work! About 30 of these precious young people came back for counseling during the week and many decisions for Christ were made. Although we were not able to keep track of every counseling decision, 27 salvation decisions were recorded from the combined children's groups at the conference. Praise God!

Sadly, some of the children we talked with (even some from Christian homes) were questioning the existence of God. The teaching of Evolution and its godless humanistic worldview is prevalent and pervasive in every facet of education, government, and media and is affecting the lives of children and adults--whether we want to believe it or not. The truth of God's Word must be presented and upheld. The lies of Satan's humanistic reasoning must be refuted and exposed. We must be actively living and sharing the truth we have in Christ. Prayer is essential, for God is the One Who gives power to reject lies and embrace the truth! 

Please Pray that...

• the Holy Spirit will bring conviction of sin and the need for Christ to the hearts of those who have heard but have not yet believed in Him for salvation.
  
  
• the young Chinese believers will continue to embrace Christ and stand for Him all their days.

• the parents of these young people will come to know the Lord and grow mightily in His Word so that they can instruct their children in righteousness and help them to see and reject Satan's lies.
  
  
• God will empower us and that we will be sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit as we seek to share His truth with others.