Bus Business

Bus 5 had 33 today with 3 first time visitors. It was a special day because Cheyenne, who got saved last Sunday, came with her permission slip signed and was baptized this morning. She is in the sixth grade.

The thing that impressed me is that she came alone. Perhaps that doesn't sound like a "biggie" to you BUT, I spent over an hour talking with several young teens who have each ridden our bus for 4-5 years. The are losing interest and don't want to come unless their friends come.

I did a lot of talking to two girls on Saturday. Jessicia is very mature for her 14 years. She has had quite a bit of responsibility and has come very regularly and brought her little sister for the past three years. She was the one that was listening intently. Erica was staring off into space and not acting like she heard me too much.

I tried to explain to the girls how that someday they would stand before God and would, at that time, be so ashamed if they had just taken advantage of His grace and yet put nothing into the relationship that God challenged them to build.

This morning I received a call at 6:55 from Erica. She had spent the night with Megan and they wanted to go to church. They had invited another friend over and she was going to come also.

Not only that, the girls told me they would like to go with me on visitation because they have a lot of friends they would like to get on the bus.

My heart soared like a kite!!! My prayer is that I can disciple these girls. I want them to be able to apply bible truths to their life. I want to see them yield their lives to Him.

Kyle is another teen who has begun to lose interest because his cousin doesn't go all the time. He doesn't want to come alone.

I can't wait to see how the Lord works in these lives.

Oh yes, last week, I had to go into Donald's apartment, where teenage cousins were sleeping in the living room floor. We hunted and hunted, finally locating two DIFFERENT shoes. He came anyway!!!!

Then today, Jared and Shawna got on the bus. It wasn't long before they changed seats and Jared ended up sitting with me. I happened to notice that his pants were not snapped so I tried to offer assistance to help him. I saw that he was a little reluctant. When he stood, I realized that these pants were not going to snap no matter what I did. So, he just left them unsnapped.....and he came anyway!!! By the way, Jared is in the first grade.

Thank you Lord for all these blessings.