This week (July 13-17) is Vacation Bible School at Trinity. From 9:00 to Noon each day our enthusiastic crew of “Construction Workers” will be gathering for Bible Study, crafts, stories, music and other activities that will help them to learn and grow as disciples of Jesus Christ. The lessons have come from folks involved in Habitat for Humanity and they are excellent. Our crew leaders have put in a lot of work in planningand making sure that all of our young people will have a wonderful experience this week. It isn’t too late for parents to bring children to learn and grow. Call (803)684-4100 for more information.

A number of years ago I worked with a Christian Educator who tried to convince me (in another congregation) that we didn’t need to have Vacation Bible School. He was seminary trained and well-educated, but he was missing the fact that we can make memories, touch lives and really give young people something to grow on when we are willing to take one week and dedicate a lot of time, energy and enthusiasm to what we do. With careful planning and a lot of love, we can touch young lives with a message about God’s love and grace. This year’s theme of Under Construction is a good reminder for all of us that we ar under construction and God is working in our lives. What a great God we have!

Speaking of God’s saving and constructing power, if you weren’t with us for our worship services or Barbecue last week, when we had Anita and Diane from NESEI with us, you missed a blessing. The work that they are doing in south Sudan is powerful and life-changing. Hearing Diane tell her story of being in places at God’s time and finding herself moving from Uganda to Yei, Sudan was wonderful. Then, having our visitors from Salkehatchie there to learn and listen was another example of God’s great sense of timing. There’s an old children’s song that reminds us that “He’s still working on me, to make me what I ought to be….” That song reminds us that God is working on all of us, we are all “under construction” and when we are open to God, our lives are refined in ways that we couldn’t imagine on our own. God bless each one, Gene Feagin, Pastor