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Welcome to our blog. Let me start by making a brief introduction of our wild bunch. I'm Cristy. I'm 30 years old. I'm married to William, next year will be 10 years. He's the pastor of our church, Liberty Fellowship. We have five children. Isaac is our oldest. He'll be 11 in July. He's the advanced reader in the family. He loves woodworking and building things. Next in line is Zane. He's 9 going on 16 and he's my little lady's man. He's not into reading as much as his big brother is but I've noticed lately he's getting into it more. Then there is Zoe. She's my only brown eyed child and she's on the road to being 7 years old. She's the tempermental one of the family and sometimes hard to figure out. She has her good days and her bad days but with a little guidance, she is working really hard on her attitude. We hadn't planned on having anymore children. We were fine with three children and then here comes Zanna. She's trouble with a capital T. I'm telling you, I don't believe I've had a more mischievious child than my 5 year old. She's given me more scares than all five of my children put together. She's into everything and if they say it's childproof, they haven't let my daughter try opening it. She poured Benzocaine into my tea, numbing my throat and the lady at Poison Control ordered me to call 911 IMMEDIATELY. No kidding. This lady had me thinking I was going to drop dead. We have to keep EVERYTHING under lock and key! But on the other hand, she is a most delightful child. She's happy go lucky most of the time and can make the most solemn person laugh. Last, but not least is Jon. He's 8 months old and is named after my youngest brother, Jonathan. Jon was born during the roughest storm in my life. In November of 2007 my dad found the skeletal remains of Jonathan beneath the rubble of a burned mobile home. The police and fire dept. was there doing a search since we'd reported him missing and my dad and brother Dewayne were there searching as well. The owner of the mobile home had said that there had been no one at the mobile home at the time and would not allow the fire to be put out. That was 5 days before Thanksgiving. January 24, I tested positive for pregnancy. In September, Jon was born. He put a smile back on all our faces and our hearts have slowly begun to mend once more. God is so good to us and although Jon will never replace Jonathan, God knew exactly what we all needed.

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Cristy's Thoughts
Jun. 3, 2009
Valley of Decisions

Valley of Decisions...if you're a Bible reader then you probably know of this famous Bible verse from the book of Joel. This is where I got the theme for our vacation bible school this year. We're turning one side of our church into a forest. We're having a tent set up, a campfire, and we're leading a group of kids to the "Valley of Decision". The Valley of Decision is a very important place for us all. It's a time when each of us makes the choice of whether we're gonna serve Him or not. The script for the puppet show is coming slowly to me this year for some reason. Perhaps it's because of the 'valley' that I've been in. And maybe, just maybe, God is using my valley to help me to be able to help others this year. I'm not going to try to figure it out. I've decided I'll just put my trust in Him and let Him lead me when it comes to this. We're gonna top it all off with a Friday Night Campout at Around the Pond Campground with a cookout and marshmallow roast and then our awards ceremony Saturday evening before we all pack up and go home.

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I've been the director for VBS for the past 6  years and I love it. The first year we did one of the store bought themes, Construction Zone. After that, I really felt God's leading me to write my own. With His help, we pulled it off. We live in a farm setting so one year we did a farm themed one and decorated our church to where it looked like a barn. We had 4 puppets that year that my children and I made. Jacob the Well, Barney the Barn, Lucy the Lamb, Woody the Tree and of course we had a farmer, Farmer Brown, who was me. I borrowed some of my brother's old worn out overalls and put on a straw hat. We made tables out of square bales of hay outside each evening for snacks and after our party at the end of the week, we went on a hay ride. year before last we did Let's Go Fishing (for men, of course) and we turned our church into the "Ship of Zion". We found some chrome plates that we added pictures of the ocean to and created portholes. We took white tablecloths and created sails, used real paddles and purchased some nets and oars, some life vests, and we even made underwater scenes with fish that me and the kids colored and cut out and the water was white sheets that we dyed with blue dye. It turned out really really great.

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Last year I was pregnant so I had some help with the directing but I wrote the scripts for the skits. The theme was "Almost Home" and we focused on being runners in a race. On our first scene we portrayed Apostle Paul as a runner. He jogged the whole skit long and talked to the kids about not giving up, no matter what and that one day you'd reach the end of your race. It was wonderful. We portrayed the prodigal son and Steven as well. It was very spiritual. We had a good time, had a nice bunch of kiddies and teenagers and just enjoyed being together and knowing that one day we'll make it to the end of our race. One day we'll get to see the face of Jesus, get to touch those nail scarred hands and feet. And all these trials and heartaches will be worth it. It will be worth every mile of the trip! I'm glad that I chose Jesus as my savior.

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Thank you Lord for a little SON shine in this heart of mine today. I don't deserve it but I thank you for it!


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Jun. 13, 2009 - Too neat!

Posted by prayingmother


I want to come to your VBS! That is so cool. I have written some programs too, but not for VBS. They were for a toddler/preschool meetings at multi-church retreat. I had so much fun. I've done a farm theme twice. A garden theme that was both about gardening and about that our heart is like a garden. And last year I did it on Following the Shepherd. We learned the steps to follow Jesus along with learning about sheep and shepherds. This year, I'm taking off. Well, not quite, I'm in charge of crafts for all ages.

Rhonda


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