Band of Survivors Team Update 12

We had lots of preparation for VBS this week so everyone was really busy trying to get everything for that day we had to teach or do the craft or whatever we had to do. So after Thursday night everyone was really tired from our VBS that day. Today Chris’s cell group did VBS and we had about 40 kids come. We sang a couple songs, made paper bag puppets, played a couple games, and sang our last song. All the kids participated and they all had a lot of fun with it. They were learning some new stuff and so did we. After VBS was over (we were all really tired) we had dinner and then the fire band practiced for the praise and prayer night.

I was so happy because my mom and sister were coming that night. I was having so much fun practicing because it’s fun just to hang out together and have fellowship with each other but also because even if you mess up in practice God hears that you’re praising him and he is happy. Amen. So we practiced for an hour and then before we started our program we had a word of prayer for the band, for the day, and for our leader Eric Himes, who was preaching that night. So our night started with God already knowing things were going to be for him. We were in the presence of the Holy Spirit that night and nothing we did was for any of us, it was all for God.

We all had to stay strong especially when it was testimony time. I shared parts of what we have been doing with B.O.S and all I could think of was what am going to say that will be a revolution to people. Well it didn’t take me very long to then think well what’s the key point that God wants me to point out to people, how does he want me to relate? And then I thought of a conversation with my friend Alisha asking her, “have you ever felt like anything you do no matter how hard or how well you do it, it turns to be bad or pointless”? Then I remembered a bible verse we learned in 1 Corinthians 15:58 that says: “So, my dear brothers and sisters, be strong and immovable. Always work enthusiastically for the Lord, for you know that nothing you do for the Lord is ever useless.” So now when I go to a church or do something I remember that verse and know that whatever I do is never useless in the eyes of God.

Ashley Lewis