{"id":338,"date":"2011-07-01T08:58:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T12:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/?p=338"},"modified":"2011-07-01T09:10:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T13:10:09","slug":"i-love-it-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I love it here!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While many of the songs we sing at SuperVBS are not new to Curwensville Alliance &#8212; Jesus, Messiah, Beautiful One, Lord I Lift Your Name on High, My All in All &#8212; they are new to many of the children present.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Last evening, at VBS, <\/strong>Linda spoke to me and said, &#8220;Pastor Steve, I have to tell you this story.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>She went on to speak about a little girl in her tribe of 17 kids who kept asking, &#8220;When are we going to sing? I want to go up and sing!&#8221; Linda told her it was coming soon. Finally, when they went up to sing, as the music was being queued, the little girl looked up at Linda and said with a sort of sigh in her voice, &#8220;I love it here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For some kids, VBS can be life-changing immediately.<\/strong> I read on Diane&#8217;s facebook today that she came to know Christ at a VBS. On the other hand, sometimes VBS is doing the work of giving children a pleasant experience so that when they are seeking something more in life, they come back to that memory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In both cases, it&#8217;s a wonderful thing to see children loving the music as they worship God. <\/strong>Please pray for these kids &#8212; that through the work of this ministry, they would find Jesus.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in learning more about SuperVBS, go to <a title=\"SuperVBS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.supervbs.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.supervbs.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in Curwensville Alliance Church, go to <a title=\"Curwensville Alliance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\">www.curwensvillealliance.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>~Pastor Steve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While many of the songs we sing at SuperVBS are not new to Curwensville Alliance &#8212; Jesus, Messiah, Beautiful One, Lord I Lift Your Name on High, My All in All &#8212; they are new to many of the children &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/?p=338\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-spiritual-formation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvLb-5s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}