Carol Ann Webb said she’s never had an experience that touched her heart the way a Vacation Bible School (VBS) in Mississippi did last year.
For starters, it looked nothing like your normal VBS — it was under the trees in 100-degree heat. But as Webb, a member of First Baptist Church, Guin, and other volunteers waited, they saw a group of more than 25 people walking down the road toward them — kids, but also adults and teenagers.
And Webb soon learned they all intended to stay.
‘Hungry for the Word’
She, along with Jeff Brantley, youth and education minister at First Baptist Church, Winfield, and his wife, Darla, quickly cobbled together activities for the other age groups. It worked, Webb said.
“Those people were just hungry for the Word of God,” she said.
It touched Webb. Ten people were saved that week. And while her group led that effort, in another location other volunteers from Marion Baptist Association were renovating a Baptist camp.
That’s what summers have looked like for the past three decades for Marion Association, according to Keith Box, director of missions. Every year, a construction team from the association goes out to help with a building project, taking a VBS team with it. This year, 72 are signed up to work on a church in Lamar County in July.
“It is probably the highlight of the year for me,” Box said. “The sweat, the tears, the prayers that everyone puts into it — it’s a great group of folks, and it’s amazing what God does.”
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