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I want it now, I want two!!!!!!!

1st little story on our last week club. Accidentally Tiara and me has been pumping the kids to do their lessons… a bit too much.

Then…look at the picture here!

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So here there happen to be a little girl C decided to cry sadly because  she could not get the meet the king without working on lessons. No matter what we do, she was just crying and crying… Eventually Tiara did some lessons with her. That was a really cute little girl, she did get the book after she was helped with all the lessons, and the good thing is…the book talking about Jesus is worth it to cry for it!

Things we could not do this summer

& little cute surprise!!

So on our 4th week Tiara and me got into some car situation so we could not finish our clubs on pound maker and little pine reserves. But we just could never forget before Thursday we had so many kids and how much fun they had, and then all of sudden we could not even go back.

So we planned on going there on last Saturday, but on Saturday we had a bad thunderstorm… We had to accepted what happened and we tried everywhere there was even a little possibility of having them coming inside… there was not even one place that would work.

So we had to went and inform the kids we were sorry we could not have our make up club this day and handed out some snack and gospel of John to them.Just to give them a little bit of memory of 5-day club.

We went to the kids and spent a little bit of time in the car, as some kids are waiting for me and Tiara to finish our cards for those girls who asked Jesus into their hearts, so this little girl, K, has been helping us all the time, she was a bit bored and she grabbed my Bible and asked,”can I color?”

Of course! What ever we could still do for you just go right ahead! Okay I did not say this… sounds too sad, this girl was just happy that even the weather was bad we still came.

And then… I did not see my Bible till all of them left… and I opened my Bible…

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what was that cute  kids’ writing of ” I Love you” in red pencil crayon?

That was sure a surprise.

Even if we did not manage to have a nice party there, we were so happy in these occasions we really reached this little girl. On last Monday we went back to pound-maker and we met her first because she was just walking on the Road when we were there! And again on Saturday K spent lots of time with us, K said she is not going home, she wanted to go wherever we go even if we told her we were leaving North Battleford.

We are sad to say bye to her, but happy for what God has done for her in her heart.

Pie Highlight

POOR ME: “OK… Guys… you just Pied me before and you came line up again…”

Last Friday was just PIE PIE PIE PIE PIE PIE and PIEPIE and PIEPIEPIE and PIE  and PIES… too many pies.

No whipped cream in the store…so…

Icing pies! A boy actually did some artwork on my face…

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Awesome everybody did not escape from it! Since it was everybody so no kids pictures to post, aha!

Conclusion

I thank God for His own work in kids’ hearts. The kids will never had that joy, Tiara and me will never feel the joy of working with Him, if He is not among us.

It is going to be all different without our Lord and Savior. I enjoyed being the “special Chinese girl who wrote their names in Chinese” and Tiara was sure an awesome role model for them, and I know in other cases God also make club time so special for the kids and for us as well. That is His own work, we just need to be there and be used!

 

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Aug 08 | Sweetgrass/Poundmaker/Little Pine
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About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.

This most recent week has been absolutely nuts! Highlights (?)

  • Flat tire! Mud, lots of it! Two stuck vehicles! Lots & lots of rain!
  • Two clubs without a hostess or set location!
  • Nearly 70 kids in total

Poundmaker was the most incredible club for me this week. Last year, it seemed impossible to host a club there. We had almost no support from the reserve & on the last two days we were locked out of the band hall. This year, we had no hostess and had the freedom to set up where we wanted.

  • On the first day, we had 7 kids right off the bat!
  • By the second day, we had 17! I was amazed as I had been somewhat nervous about this club, seeing as we’d reached a grand total of 5 kids last year.
  • We also reached 15 at Little Pine the first day we held club there, despite having no hostess there either
  • We had 10 decisions on the second day. 4 on Poundmaker, 6 on Little Pine.
  • On the third day, however, we took a wrong turn and ended up with a flat tire. Before we could deal with the situation, it started raining. We ended up being unable to hold club that day.
  • On the last day, it was still raining. The only club we were able to hold that day was at Sweetgrass, and was taught by Jean while my dad & I dealt with the car.

Because we have no hostess on Poundmaker or Little Pine, we couldn’t let the kids know club was cancelled. Jean & I plan to head out there this Sunday to make it up to them. Please pray that we can reach a few more. The harvest is plentiful.

Thank you & God bless.

-Tiara & Jean

 

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Aug 08 | Moosomin/Saulteaux
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Hi guys! Guess it’s time for a few updates (my mom is harassing me haha).

Honestly, we have so many stories from these past few weeks. For now, I’d just like to share this story from Moosomin First Nation during Week Two.

The first kids we got at this club were a group of three siblings, who told me on the way that they were tired of social services taking them away from their parents. They were staying on the rez with their kokum and all three had some definite discipline problems. I wasn’t expecting much for verses or lessons from any of them.

On the last day, however, the oldest girl (8) showed up with a pile of lessons we’d given her yesterday. Every one was finished and she’d clearly read through the stories carefully!! I was so impressed, but it was what happened next that really stuck with me:

So all this summer, Jean has been a huge blessing for me. I have a tendency to forget to pray before club, and she is constantly reminding me, both in & outside club, to talk to our Creator. Anyway, on this day Jean was out finishing up craft with some kids, and wasn’t there to remind me to pray before snack.

I began to hand out snack, and all of a sudden I noticed this particular girl, kneeling, her hands folded and eyes closed as she prayed before she ate her snack!! She had never been to church before or had any Christian influence. The only thing I can think is that she learned this from her lessons. I was amazed and seeing this reminded me to pray with the rest of the kids. The transformation I saw in this girl from the beginning of club to the end was incredible!

In total, we had 9 decisions during Week Two. God is so good.

-Tiara & Jean

 

 

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Jul 22 | Mosquito/Red Pheasant
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Hey guys! So Jean and I figured we should say a few things about what’s been going on in North Battleford area!

  • We were teaching at Red Pheasant & Mosquito reserves last week. (Our last club was unfortunately cancelled, but that’s another story)
  • We felt a little discouraged at first, because only two kids showed up at Red Pheasant and four at Mosquito. However, this gave us time to connect with our hostesses and learn about each reserve’s situation.
  • It turns out Mosquito has not had a church for over twenty years–theirs burned down, and only in the past couple weeks have they started having small services at the band hall.
  • But!! By our second day of teaching, the Mosquito club had grown a lot!! We got a handful of older girls who showed up halfway through and immediately began making posters for us, saying things like ‘5 Day Clubs is cool’ & ‘We love 5 Day Clubs’
  • We eventually made a wall of posters because the kids made us so many!
  • By the end of the week we’d reached a total of 44 kids on Mosquito (all unchurched), from a club that had started with only 4!
  • The important part being: we had 11 decisions this week, 2 on Red Pheasant & 9 on Mosquito, with all of our older girls coming to know Jesus!

One final thing I found super encouraging was introducing the older girls to the quizzing equipment–I started with asking them questions from the Tony story, and slowly moved on to bible verses. At one point I asked a straightforward question (‘For the wages of sin is ___’), expecting the answer to be ‘death’. But one girl jumped and quoted the entire verse flawlessly! By the end the were all super pumped about the idea of quizzing.

(Jean was also pied for the first time. I gave the kids the option of who they wanted to pie first and they all immediately pointed at her!! Compliment??)

Thank you so much for your prayers.

-Tiara & Jean