VBS TESTIMONY
By Bro Cheah Kun Cheng

Thank God for the recent VBS that took place from 7-9 of December, which was a success in many ways. Not only that, I also want to thank God for allowing me to serve Him in VBS.

In this year's VBS, God entrusted Uncle John and myself with a group of Primary 6 kids. All of them coming from different schools and family backgrounds. Nevertheless, they learned from one common source of truth, which is the bible during the 3 days of VBS.

During VBS, I had many opportunities of getting to know some of the students better through games, lessons and lunchtime conversation. I have to admit that some of them were quite a handful to manage compared to the men I have under me in the army camp. However, I thank God who was the Provider of patience and love to me in handling them during those times when they misbehaved during the rehearsal of the skit. If there was one thing that encouraged me in this VBS, it would be the desire to know and love God coming from some of the primary 6 kids. Despite coming from Non-Christian family backgrounds and not having a bible of their own did not hinder them from wanting to know who their Creator was.

During one of the lessons, I had the opportunity to explain some of the jargons that were used in the bible and through that opening I shared the gospel to them. Due to the busyness of preparing the props needed for the skit, I didn't have the chance to follow up to their responses to the gospel. However, I did manage to get their contact numbers so that I can still call and meet up with them.

Do pray that God will work in Sean and Chin Ken's hearts as I try to contact them and get follow them up. Also, do pray for the coming outing on the 21 Dec whereby we can meet the children who came for the VBS so that we can share the gospel with them if we missed the chance to do so during VBS as well as following them up. Lastly, I want to thank the helpers. I really appreciate their help to lighten the workload so that we can focus on getting to know the kids and ultimately share the gospel to them.

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TESTIMONY AND REPORT
By Sis Hannah Yeo

VBS 2009 has been another occasion where God in His mercy has shown His blessings. Prayer requests had been made for: i) a good number of students to attend. ii) wisdom to settle a transport problem because our own church van had already been sold off. iii) more helpers and teachers. God in His mercy and grace answered all the above and more. He touched the hearts of brethren who gave to this ministry and we found that the giving was a blessing to the work in many ways.

It was really encouraging to see Gracians co-operating with one another in everything. The speakers, teachers, assistant teachers, youth and game helpers and kitchen helpers gave more than one hundred percent in all that they did for the Lord. Even those who could not serve in the VBS fulltime gave in other ways. Kitchen staff even stayed back to clean the toilets. One couple even came in the evening just to help clean the toilets. All these helped to make VBS 2009 an enjoyable one for all especially the students who came for the three days of VBS. God was very gracious also to grant teachers an opportunity to share the truth with a number of children. Out of the 49-51 children who for the 3 VBS days, 7 responded to the gospel. Please pray for wisdom to know how to follow-up the children who have responded to God's love for them from this year's VBS as well as from the VBS from other years.