His hands and feet

A few weeks ago, I asked joint lifegroup to pray for my home church in Lake Arthur.  They have been struggling for many years, especially since my generation of youth have graduated and moved away. 

Last month, my mom took a group of girls from the community to camp.  They went to Student Life Camp in Ruston, LA at Louisiana Tech, where I also went to camp at their age.  My mom came home with awesome stories about how these girls grew to know Jesus deeper, had salvation experiences, and even received visions and prophesies about the town and for each other.  My mom told me how on fire these girls are for God, and how they longed to be His hands and feet for the community. 

Today, I got to experience the amazingness of these girls for myself.  I spent the 4^th of July weekend in Lake Arthur, so today I was still here for the first day of my church’s annual Vacation Bible School.  Not many adults volunteered to help with the program (which has been one of the struggles in my church for many years), but this group of girls not only volunteered to help, but completely seized the opportunity and blew it out of the water.

My mom has been the director of VBS for the past 20 years and she says that this group of girls is the best VBS volunteers she has ever seen.  The girls blew my mind every second I was in their presence.  They were completely immersed in what they were doing, interacted with the children, and had so much genuine energy to give to this cause. 

I truly saw them as His hands and feet. 

My job for the day was to take pictures, which would normally require me to make rounds around the church and take pictures of all the different activities and age groups.  However, I found myself drawn to stay at the music station for the majority of the way.  The girls in charge of the music weren’t just doing the motions for the sake of doing the motions.  They were really WORSHIPPING.  With every age group that rotated in, the girls gave all they had to the children and also to God.  It was so amazing to see this in my home church.

I thank God so much for giving me the opportunity to see these girls in action.  I thank God for placing the girls in a struggling church and a fallen community.  I pray that these girls will be His hands and feet with their peers, at school, and to the ends of the earth.  They truly inspired me to be His hands and feet.  I know God has placed these girls together for them to make a difference where they are.

Girls, thank you for following God’s direction in your lives.  Thank you for submitting to His callings for all of you.  Watching you all today made my heart so happy.