We hurried through the city to attend the Westbury Haitan Church. To get there we rode the Long Island Rail Road. Their service was spoken in French Creol. We were able to recognize some of the songs they sang and several people translated the service for us. It was so great to be reminded that the same God we worship, in english, can also be worshiped in another language. They don't have a "time limit" on their service, which is quite the contrast to the rush, rush of the city. But because of this we had to speed through our VBS. The kids were SOOOO excited because they don't have a Kids Service on a regular Sunday morning. They were so receptive of what we had to say and participated so well! As we rushed out of the church to catch the train they gave us water and sandwiches because the heat was exhausting! We then took a looooooooong ride over to the Bronx.....
Most of us had hit a caffeine low and stopped at a Dunkin Doughnuts to refill as we waited for the church bus to pick us up. How relieved were we! When we arrived at the Foundations of the Nation Church we started our kids program right away. The kids had so much fun singing with us and playing games. Many of us got attached to specific children as they sat on our laps and hugged our necks. We ended up streching our program for an extra 45 mins to allow the adults to remain in the service. As we were leaving the pastor of the church told us how thankful he was to have us come and serve. As they are entering our Missionary Church family they were grateful to see other missionary church members serving them with joyful spirits and smiles :)
By the time we left the church it was pretty late, and we had to take the long ride back to our home. I'm pretty sure we all slept soundly last night as we were exhausted from traveling from one side of New York to the other. All in all it was a great day for a VBS marathon and we felt as though we left both churches with smiling kids and grateful congregations.
God Bless, Ashlen and Kendra :)
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