VT Youth On Air

As we continue staying home, our church has gotten very creative.  We have our Sunday morning service at 11:00, Wednesday night Bible study at 7:30, Kids Power Hour on Saturday mornings at 11:00, and VT Youth on Air on Saturday evenings at 5:00.

Last night's VT Youth on Air was something special.  It started much like our monthly Youth Service with songs, prayer requests and announcements.  They then played Bible Scavenger Hunt.  Sis. Vivian and Bro. Gary gave 20 Bible verses and each contained a key word such at bed, milk or bread.  The young people were given 7 minutes to find as many of those items as they could, take a picture with the item and text it to Sis. Vivian or Bro. Gary who continued encouraging the young people as the time counted down.  The winners were Jason Wilson for the guys and Caitlin Flores for the girls.

After the game came a sweet part of the service.  Testimonies from two young people.  But these were not just any young people, but two sweet young ladies from the church in Lucena in the Philippines!  One was a prerecorded testimony and the other was a letter that Sis. Vivian read.  Oh how my heart was touched by these precious young ladies!  Such faith, trust and hope!

Sis. Divine Grace

Sis. Marisol

After the testimonies, there was a song by a brother from Lucena.  During this time of social distancing, Pastor Pabanil challenged his young people to create Bible lessons for their Sunday school children and to write an original song.  The song was an original, and again my heart was touched.  I wanted to jump on an airplane for that 14 hour flight to Manila and then spend another four hours in traffic to be back in the church in Lucena!

The service ended with a message from one of our ministers, Bro. Laster.  I realize there are many church services you can listen to online these days, but this one was special!  It is available on our church website (along with all our other services.)  Go here:  VT Youth on Air - Holy Ghost Power Hour. 

Sunday afternoon update:
I had church at home this morning while Les was in Burbank running the sound for our live stream.  Since today was the first Sunday of the month, it was Missions Sunday at Victory Tabernacle.  It was a pleasant surprise to hear that Bro. Nathan Weidner was our guest speaker.  We enjoyed spending time with the Weidners while we were in the Philippines.  They are ready to return to the Philippines as soon as they are able to fly.  We're praying that this pandemic ends soon so they can get back to the land of their calling.