Village Bible Church || Aurora | Indian Creek | Sugar Grove | IL

Day #3

Each night, we share our highs and lows of the day, especially in what God did in and through our team.

Day #4

In the morning, on Tuesday, July 26, we had our morning educational rotations from going on nature walks to visiting the science museum downtown.

In the afternoon, we continued with our VBS type ministry.  About 40 of us serve with the kindergarten through 5th grade.  We are teaching through the armor of God in Ephesian 6:10-18.  Our Village team, made up of Chet & Renee Kuryliw, Michael Free, Cody Hallebach, Nate Underwood, Ben Justus, Kayla Thompson, Kaity Calhoun, and Elyse Roberts taught the lesson, led the games and the crafts on Monday and Tuesday with the 3rd - 5th graders.  Harvest Bible Church's team teaches the lesson, leads the games and crafts for the kindergarten - 2nd graders all week and for the 3rd - 5th graders on Wednesday & Thursday.  As shared in a previous blog, 10 of us serve with the middle school  students (6 from Village and 4 from Harvest) where we teach the Bible lesson & lead the games and crafts each day. 

 Yesterday we taught everyone in a large group on friendship.  The "3 essentials to great friends" (Acts 1:13-15) are that great friends love Jesus; great friends pray together; and great friends talk about Jesus.  Today we split the middle school students up into small groups for the lesson time and we had an interactive discussion about who is Jesus which was much more effective and impacting for the middle school students.