Rockbridge Community Festival 2014

 Today we participated in the Rockbridge Community Festival 2014. This is the 3rd year Brent has had a booth for his photography here. We always enjoy this festival and it is so nice to have such a great festival close to home. Here are our big girl helpers. We were able to pull up very close to his spot to set up so once he got the tent up each girl wanted a job to help (Bethany helped by sleeping in her car seat throughout set up today). You can see both girls started out in their pajamas since we left home before 7 am this morning.

 Bekah wanted to job of hanging hooks for her Daddy's picture to go on. Rachel helped bring canvases to the tent.

Here is Bekah with the fully set up booth. My job today was actually to run the photography booth and I enjoyed talking with all those who came by his booth today.

You see, at the Community Festival, our church also has a booth as well. So I was in charge of the photography booth today while Brent and the girls headed for the Faith Mountain booth.
 Here is the smallest helper with me. Bethany went back and forth between the two booths. Thank you to Judith, Shirley, Joy,Tamara and all the others who helped with the girls today!

In the busyness of the day, the camera never made it down to the church booth from the photography booth so I don't have any pictures of the booth itself. At the booth, they were helping people coming to the festival to make these bracelets and sharing the Good News with them of how much Jesus loves us. Each color on the bracelet has a meaning. The Yellow bead reminds us that God loves us and has a plan for us and wants us to live forever with Him. The next bead reminds us that the wrong things we do separate us from God. Next on the bracelet we see the cross and the red bead that remind us that Jesus loves us so much that He died on the cross for our sins so that we could be forgiven of those wrong things we do. The next bead shows that Jesus forgives those wrongs things when we ask Him and gives us a new heart. The green bead reminds us that as we trust in Jesus we grow in new life with Him.

This is the bracelet that Rachel made and she and others helped those who came by make a bracelet if they wanted to and shared with them this great news of how much God loves each of us!

The day ended with some excitement. We had a couple of periods of rain during the day but as we were finished the festival it became clear that it was REALLY going to rain. Thanks to all our friends, including Chris and Tamara and Joey, Josh, Joseph and Eric, we had the photography booth taken down in about 30 minutes and the pictures at least safely put in the van before the rain began. We didn't quite miss all the rain. As Rachel told me as we were standing under a breezeway trying to stay dry, "Hey Mom, this is kind of like the ark!" Yes, it was Pouring by that point!.
We are thankful that the rain held off as long as it did and thankful for a great day at the Rockbridge Community Festival this year.