Day 4 at VBS August 11, 2011

PRAISE THE LORD! We had 59 children come to VBS last night with 7 first time visitors. Another young boy was saved. His name is Nelson Guzman and he is 8 years old. It sure is exciting. He is a cousin of one of our church family.

These kids are having a fun time for sure, but the sole purpose is to provide an opportunity for lost kids to hear the gospel. We even had a teen come as a participant because he was invited by one of the visitors who has been coming all week long. He felt out of place being a ninth grader sitting with 6th graders so I hooked him up with a few of our teen boys who were working in the VBS. He seemed to feel better after that and opened up a tad. I invited him to come to church on Sunday so he could go to the teen class. He seemed very interested. He then told me he was planning to return again tonight. GLORY!

I have attached a few more pictures from last night...KEEP PRAYING!

VBS 2011 DAY THREE

We had another GREAT night at VBS tonight. Forty-nine children came and (I believe) we had 4 visitors. One young girl of 8 years old came because her Mother and her were driving by on RT 177 and saw our sign in front of the church office. The GREAT news is that this girl was gloriously saved tonight. She had heard about salvation before but it never really “clicked” until tonight. Praise the Lord!

We are looking forward to tomorrow night and anticipating the Lord working in the hearts of these kids tomorrow and Friday night. Please keep praying!

THANKS to all of our adults and teens and the Kaisers for laboring for Christ in this VBS!

Day 2 at VBS August 9, 2011

Praise the Lord! Tonight we had 12 more come to VBS bringing 52 children to the VBS! The GREAT NEWS is that one 8 year old boy was saved tonight! GLORY TO GOD!

His name is Dylan. He is a deaf boy and so very nice. So polite and very happy. He and his sister both came to VBS for the first time tonight. They have both been ministered to by my daughter, Shari, who has "babysat" for them during the last several week. As my daughter is an ASL interpreter she has been communicating the gospel to the children. Last night at VBS Victoria Anderson, who is one of our Teen ASL interpreters was signing for Dylan and she lead him to Christ. He was very happy to be saved! Praise the Lord!

Keep PRAYING!

HAPPY DAY EXPRESS - VBS

Well, the first night of VBS was tonight. We had 40 children and about 30 adult workers and a bunch of our teenagers and singles working everywhere. IT WAS AN AWESOME first night. We had a blast to be sure. The kids can't wait to get back tomorrow and many were excited to invite their friends and neighborhood kids. The theme is all centered around Getting Onboard the Heaven Bound Train. The auditorium was decorated with a train complete with lights, "smoke" from the steam engine and sound effects of a train chugging down the tracks. The kids learned a theme song, had a bible lesson and craft time, and then snacks. They were so excited. Praise the Lord for all the folks helping the Kaiser's tonight. I am praying for more children tomorrow and for the Lord to work in the hearts of the children who are ready to get saved.

GLORY TO GOD FOR ALL THAT HE ACCOMPLISHES THIS WEEK IN THE HEARTS OF THESE CHILDREN.

My wife, Bonnie, and 55 folks from our church family drove 4 hours to Berlin, NJ to attend the 3rd N.E. Vision Summit held at Solid Rock Baptist Church. It was an added plus to go there right after attending our own Camp Meeting the week previous. We were all spiritually ready for more great preaching in NJ.

The Clark family and members of SRBC blessed our heart in so many ways. They are all so giving, loving, and caring servants of the Lord Jesus Christ! They took care of every need imaginable and then showered all of us with so much more! Praise the Lord for this wonderful church family.

The preaching was holy Spirit led. Each and every message and service dealt with us by God in the areas of personal convictions, courage, consecration, complacency, focus back to the Lord Jesus Christ, humility, God's ability, sin, service, and so much more. Words can not describe the filling of my cup during the last three days.

Every message was GREAT, however two messages in particular stand out in my heart right now. Both of them were preached by Pastor Doug Fisher. One dealt with the topic of "Keeping Rank" and the second dealt with the topic of "Humility". WOW!

The music was all Christ honoring and uplifting! Thank the Lord for old fashioned Spirit led music. All I can say is again, WOW!

The last day of the conference we filled 15 buses to the max and drove into Philadelphia to the green in front of Independence Hall and sang hymns, patriotic songs, quoted scriptures and handed out 1,oo0's of tracts and John and Romans. One 19 year old was saved that I am personally aware of and who knows how many more souls will be birthed into the kingdom of God as a result of the few hours in Philadelphia that day. Again, it was a WOW experience.

God ministered to me personally so much during these two back to back meetings (Camp Meeting and N.E .Vision Summit) and I am so grateful to my God and Saviour Jesus Christ for ministering to me, my wife, my kids, my grandkids, and my church family! THANK YOU LORD!

MY LOVELY BRIDE OF 41 YEARS!

Bonnie and I were able to take a few days after the camp meeting to get away for our 41st anniversary. What a joy to spend some time together for a couple days. Today we went into Boston and walked around the Science Museum. Enjoyable to say the least. One of the exhibits was a 3D film of the ocean area around South Africa (see us in our 3D glasses). Afterwards we went to Quincy Market for a late lunch. What a great time just walking hand in hand with my honey!

UPDATE July 10, 2011

Thought you all might like to see some pictures of my new grandbaby, Brady Kristopher Deschene born to my daughter, Tina on June 17th as well as some pictures taken just yesterday of the church fellowship hall and kitchen.

My wife spent 3 weeks in FL helping our daughter after the C-section for the birth of Brady. I sure missed her for those three weeks, but she was a great blessing and help to my daughter and her family in FL. It will be awhile before I too will be able to get my hands on the new baby and I can't wait to do so. He sure is a handsome baby!

While Bonnie was in FL I worked on completing the fellowship hall. My kids and grandkids worked many hours with me to get much cleaning done by carting much junk out to the dumpster and putting things away from all over the work site. Our church folks moved all the appliances and supplies from the old kitchen last Wednesday night and the final touch was completed by several of our ladies to set up the new kitchen. The fire marshal, building inspector and health official all gave their approvals and we are ready to use the new facilities for our camp meeting that starts today and runs from July 10-17. The health official said, "This is a first class kitchen, I wish all the kitchens in town looked as good as yours." THAT was a blessing to hear!

I will post some pictures of the camp meeting later next week (if I remember to do so).