LCPC 2017 VBS Prayer Train to Peru

LCPC’s (La Crescenta Presbyterian Church) 2017 VBS is five weeks away and our Children’s Ministries Director Ashley Pollock has put out a call for prayer with a weekly emphasis. As you’ll see over the next several weeks, it’s all about the kids. This year’s theme is ‘Passport to Peru, Discovering God’s Good Gifts’. During the few days before VBS opens up, classrooms will start to look like rain-forests and teachers will be getting amped up after collecting treasures to add to the experience for the kids. (don’t let them fool you though, they love treasure hunting for the kids)

Calvary’s Thread is extending and supporting the call to prayer for VBS – the kids, the teachers, and the behind-the-scenes volunteers. I’ll be working as the third grade storyteller and I’m already getting pumped up. So folks, hop on board the Prayer Train to Peru.

Our emphasis in prayer for this week is that the children will understand that God cares for us like a shepherd and He knows what is best. Pray for the kids to be receptive and open and pray for the teachers to open to the leading of the Holy Spirit, our Helper and Teacher. Pray for Christ’s love to be evident in every interaction.

Our scripture verse for day 1 is 2 Cor. 1: 4 (I’m adding verse 3 for reference): “³Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, ⁴who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.” (NIV)

Our story reading for day 1 follows, I'm using the New International Version (NIV):

Psalm 23

A psalm of David.

¹The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

    ²He makes me lie down in green pastures,

he leads me beside quiet waters,

    ³he refreshes my soul.

He guides me along the right paths

    for his name’s sake.

⁴Even though I walk

    through the darkest valley,

I will fear no evil,

    for you are with me;

your rod and your staff,

    they comfort me.

⁵You prepare a table before me

    in the presence of my enemies.

You anoint my head with oil;

    my cup overflows.

⁶Surely your goodness and love will follow me

    all the days of my life,

and I will dwell in the house of the Lord

    forever.

You are invited to pray over these scriptures and make them your own and to pray that the Passport to Peru leads us to make it our own at VBS.

In His grip,

Jer-Bear