A Dollar and Then Some!
by Karen Miyamoto
Summer always brings back fond memories…memories of spending time with friends, camp, beach and fun! During the summer months at ZOE equals Kids Helping Kids. This program is often adopted during Vacation Bible School for churches as a missions/outreach tool.
Kaylin Sugihara proudly showing her Kids Helping Kids Hero sticker!
This year, Cerritos Baptist Church, a local church in Cerritos, CA adopted ZOE during their July VBS as a part of their Compassion Project. Steph Luna, their Children’s Ministry Director was so excited to share the Kids Helping Kids project with her kids! Their VBS theme this year was “Shipwrecked.” Throughout the week, the kids learned that when you struggle, worry, do wrong, feel lonely or are powerless…Jesus Rescues! This year’s theme connected very well with ZOE’s mission of rescuing every child!
Below is a comment from Steph on how her VBS went…
Thank you for your prayers for this week! VBS was a success! The kids loved the treasure chest and filling it with money to help other kids. They were excited about helping other kids and my co-director’s son even put in his tooth fairy money!!! The parent letters were great information to give, because I think it really moved parents to give more than they normally would. On Day 3, I gave kids $1 if they could whisper the memory verse that was on our shirts (psalm 34:19)…one 5th grade boy listed it as his God Sighting for the day, being able to earn a dollar for ZOE! Our goal was to break $1,000 and we were able to raise $1,307.45! We appreciate your support and the opportunity to partner with you! Praising the Lord for His goodness!
Thank you Steph and the amazing team at Cerritos Baptist Church for adopting ZOE this year. You guys are AWESOME!!