This past week we had a HUGE turn our for VBS! We had over 200 children come to UPC to learn about Joshua. The week before I really began praying for God to work in the lives of the children in my class. I prayed through my class list daily trusting God to do something in them.

A boy named Trey was an answer to my prayers. When I called to introduce myself, his Grandparents informed me that he had never been to church before and he didn’t have a Bible. I assured them we would get him a Bible and that he would have a great time!

He came Monday morning with his Grandparents and they all looked pretty distraught that morning. His Grandfather told me that Trey’s Dad had had a heart attack the night before and that he was currently in the ICU. Trey did really well considering and he and I took time that day to pray for his Dad. Later that day we got him his own Bible.

We continued to pray for his Dad and by the end of the week he was out of the hospital and was even well enough to come to the program Friday night! He came up to me and thanked me for helping Trey and said he had such a great time that he wanted to come to church on Sunday. Oh my goodness!! I was floored when he asked what time our service started

On Sunday morning, two rows up from me, there he stood with his family. Grandpa, Dad and even an Uncle! He went up in the front of the church to sing the songs we learned throughout the week and he was smiling at his family. It was so sweet to see that my eyes filled with tears. Because of this 7 year old boy his whole family had now heard about Jesus Christ. His Grandfather goes to church at UPC and said that he hadn’t been able to get his son to come before.

I continue to pray for them, for their spiritual AND physical health. Will you join me this week in praying for Trey and I am sure many others who were drawn to Jesus? That the seeds planted would grow? Let us not forget what God started at VBS last week.

By Currin Ann Seely

I volunteer each week at Campus Crusade for Christ in the Volunteer Services office. This particular day I was in charge since the director was ill and not in the office. It was quite a hectic day, juggling all the duties that go with the job (more hectic for me since I was not used to being in charge). In the midst of the chaos, God put me in the middle of an answer to someone’s prayer.

I received a phone call from another Christian organization that was looking for 4 volunteers to distribute brochures at a Casting Crowns concert in Orlando. The volunteers would get free tickets to the concert, sit on the front row, and be able to go backstage to meet the group. That sounded like a request that could be easily answered since there were so many young adults in the building. As I turned around after the call, a colleague was standing behind me and I told her of the request. She said she would send out an email to her department and let me know about the response. I quickly forgot about the tickets (there are hundreds of people in her department so I just knew the tickets would be snatched up).

Later in the afternoon, she returned to my desk, saying that she had received no responses. I told her that I would just walk around my area and ask. As I turned to get up from my desk, I saw that we had several volunteers working near me, most of them of retirement age and probably had not even heard of the group, much less even want to attend the concert. I asked them anyway and one of the ladies who is 81 years old, smiled and said, “Go ask my daughter if she wants them” (her daughter is on staff at Crusade).

I walked over to her daughter and told her about the tickets and her daughter got this big smile on her face and said, “Did my mother send you over here?” I said that she had and so we both walked back to see her mother. She said, “Mother, do you want to go to this concert?” Her mother said, “Yes, I would really love to go”. Then the daughter turned to me and said, “This is my mother’s favorite group and I prayed that we would win tickets through the Christian radio program”. I could hardly speak. She prayed and God provided “the desires of her heart” and He let me see how He cares about the details of life. I began to ponder just how many people had rejected those tickets in order for God to get them to just the right person, the one who was willing to ask.

“This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us”.

From “Children’s Letters to God” by Stuart Hample and Eric Marshall.