What an incredible day!

Incredible is the only way to describe this first day of mission trip! We had about 30 kids for VBS at Ezekiel Baptist today. Not quite the number we had hoped for but the group we had today were such incredible kids. We really think that tomorrow we will have double what we had today as the kids we had today goes home and tells there friends about VBS and they come with them tomorrow. We went door to door in several of the neighborhoods passing out more flyers and tomorrow they are running a shuttle van to pick up and deliver the kids. Then, we spent a couple of hours working the neighborhood at House of Prayer Church in another part of Philly. This is the church with the woman pastor who has completely changed her neighborhood. She sits on the front steps of her church and calls down the drug dealers, the pimps and the prostitutes as they congregate out on the street and pass by her church. Well we worked in her neighborhood today and passed out VBS flyers door to door, did prayer walks through the neighborhood, prayed with quite a number of individuals, and picked up trash all over a four block area. This woman is simply incredible! We are now back at our third church, Open Door Baptist Church getting ready to eat dinner and then unload a Home Depot delivery truck thats supposed to deliver a bunch of materials and supplies for our construction project at Open Door. It's been an awesome day and it promises to be an even better day tomorrow! Our kids are awesome and they are doing great! God is GOOD!