Welcome! This
site contains information about the
Vacation Bible School teams
from
Servants of Christ Lutheran Church
of
Indianapolis, Indiana.
This Vacation Bible School program
is sponsored by
the Lutheran
Association of Missionaries and Pilots (LAMP).
Following is an update of our LAMP plans for this year at Servants of Christ Lutheran Church in Indianapolis.
I am happy to announce that we will have two teams going to Manitoba, Canada this year to teach Vacation Bible School.
Our second team consists of Priscilla
McGraw, Cynthia Bell, and Neal Thomsen. They will be going to Snow
Lake, Manitoba the week of July 16 to
20, where they expect to teach Vacation Bible School to approximately 80
children from that community. Snow Lake is a small mining community,
with a population of 1310. Priscilla, Cynthia, and Neal will be returning
to Snow Lake for the second time (Neal went in 1999).
Snow Lake Team: Priscilla and Cynthia Leaf Rapids Team: Wilma, Steve and EJ
Lindsey Hahn has again graciously offered to fly the teams up to Canada and back. For this we are very grateful. Lindsey owns a Piper Malibu Mirage, and pictures of a similar plane are shown below, with views of the the cockpit, the cabin, and the exterior.
Thank you again, Lindsey.
Lindsey
In Leaf Rapids, we will be staying with Bunnie and Alvain Morris. They are shown below. Alvain works at the local mine (copper and zinc), while Bunnie was the Sunday School teacher at Cross of Faith Anglican Church until it closed in 1998.
In Leaf Rapids, we conduct our VBS at Christ the King Catholic church. We thank them for their help.
And here are pictures of some of the kids that we had in VBS at Leaf Rapids. About half are native (Cree Indian) and about half are from Newfoundland. We have had as many as 36 kids. They are all great and we love them all.
And here are pictures of some of the kids that Carla and her team had in VBS at Snow Lake. These kids were primarily from Newfoundland. In Snow Lake, they have had as many as 80 kids. In fact, they split the kids into two sessions; one in the morning and one in the afternoon.
Here is a banner in the church at
Snow Lake, written in the native Cree language.
Our commissioning will be held in
front of the congregation on a Sunday yet to be determined (one commissioning
at each service - team members may attend either commissioning).
Pastor Ron incorporated our hymn, LBW number 723, into the commissioning
service. This hymn embodies what we as Servants of Christ are trying
to accomplish with our VBS trips.
Hymn 723 - The Spirit Sends Us Forth to Serve
The Spirit sends us forth to serve;
we go in Jesus' name
to bring glad tidings to the poor,
God's favor to proclaim.
We go to comfort those who mourn
and set the burdened free;
where hope is dim, to share a dream
and help the blind to see.
We go to be the hands of Christ,
to scatter joy like seed
and, all our days, to cherish life,
to do the loving deed.
Then let us go to serve in peace,
the Gospel to proclaim.
God's Spirit has empowered us;
we go in Jesus' name.
(by Delores Dufner - LBW Hymn 723)
In closing, let me say that we are
very excited about this year’s LAMP Vacation Bible School ministry,
and on behalf of all of the children that this will serve, offer a heartfelt
thank you to the congregation for the generous support given to this mission.
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