This trip’s VBS program is being led by the Youth groups from Fork Union Baptist Church and New Hope Church (Lorton, VA).  Here is a blog entry from one of the youth:

Today our youth group went to the VBS at the Children’s Home and Intake Facility and had a great day.  I played at the recreation station with all the kids.  We jumped rope, played ball, soccer, and jumped rope.  We played with chalk and colored.  All the kids loved this.  They all loved swinging and playing in the sand.  Playing with them felt special because I used to live there and was adopted from a boarding school three years ago.  My sister was in the Children’s Home, and I was at the Intake Facility that we went to in the afternoon today.  I feel like I have a purpose here.  God didn’t just tell me to go on a mission trip to just come.  I think that He might have a plan for me that there is something special that He wants me to do here that I’m beginning to figure out.  When we play with the kids, that’s when God speaks to me… through kids.  When I play with them, it was like every kid had a different need and they were all different.  I felt something that I could do for them that I could make them feel better. This was God speaking to me.  Now that I feel I’m connecting with the children and figuring them out and knowing their names, I can get started on the next step…. I can’t wait until tomorrow!

- Vera