Beaver, WV

We had a great week at Victory Baptist Academy! The testimonies were such a blessing at the fireside service! Here are some of them:

"This week really gave me a chance to think about what I should be doing in my life to make myself a better Christian and be a better example for others. This week God really spoke to me about my music. Music is my life and a lot of people know that. It’s been really hard for me because I’ve been in public school since I was in kindergarten. This is my first year here. God really spoke to me this week because I have a lot of music like this and this is the kind of stuff I need to get out of my life. I thought throwing my music into the fire would be hard, but...here it goes!"

"This week I surrendered my entire life to God. I always thought of myself as a good person because I don’t go out and do things that other people do, like drugs and all that stuff, because I never thought it was right. But I was holding myself up compared to other people. I was praising myself for all the good things that I do. I wasn’t praising God. I wasn’t giving God the glory for helping me to be good. I’ve done bad things because we’ve all sinned, but I’ve gotten those out of my life. I’ve decided to give Him all the glory and live my life entirely for Him."

We had beautiful scenery!

"One of the worst things I had in my life was music. It was an addiction - a serious addiction. I would get up in the morning, listen to it, go to school, and come back after school, and listen to it the rest of the day. It was really bad stuff. When Dr. Jim Van Gelderen preached about hidden sin, it made me realize my mom and dad didn’t know about that. It’s been killing me since I’ve started doing that like emotionally, but I had actual physical pain on one of those days about it. I called my mom and told her what it was. As soon as I told her, God gave me some serious grace. It felt really good to finally tell her. I’m really grateful for that. I’m so excited this week that my cousin Marshall got saved. I’ve actually cried myself to sleep over it thinking that he would go to Hell without God. I’m so thankful he came here that he would be saved. I thank the Lord he did. I had a good night’s sleep that night. I thank God for my friends who can encourage me. I’ve made a lot of decisions in my life and I want you all to pray for me. I’m Chris, by the way. :)"

Spoke Tackle

"This week God really spoke to my heart about music and hidden sins that I knew my parents didn’t know about. This week I made the best decision I could have made in my life. I surrendered to be a missionary at camp this year, but I can’t have those things in my life."

"This week He really spoke to me about hidden sins in my life. I got it right with my parents. It was the best thing I ever felt. If it wasn’t for this school.... I resented this school; I didn’t want to go; I didn’t want the homework, but the school gave this to me. Thank you."

Glow Sticks in the Dark!

 On a lighter note :) we, the girls, wanted to share a little embarrassing moment.
Monday all of us girls decided to just have a little recess in the nice gym at the school. We all were really excited to see the volleyball net set-up! So, of course, we started bumping a volleyball around. It had been a little while since we had worked on this and were not really doing a fantastic job keeping a volley. While we were working on our skill, a teacher walked through the gym. That was fine. We were sorry we weren’t displaying better skills, but it was fine...until... After school the academy had volleyball practice. We peeked through the window to be horrified to find that...the teacher who had walked through our recess was the VOLLEYBALL COACH!!! We then felt even more embarrassed about our poor recess display! :)

WV Capitol Building

The trailer crosses over into WV!