face painting

Today at VBS I did face painting during crafts for all of the kids. The preschoolers had crafts before snack, and at snack they had they had to pray. When they prayed for snack, they prayed and thanked God for face painting! It was so cute and sweet. They acted like face painting was the coolest thing in the whole world, you could tell it made their day! :) VBS is going great! We have an average of 14 kids, which is good for this church!

Please continue to pray for us and all of Montana..

God Bless,
Maggie

Helena

We have arrived in Helena. Yesterday we went to an airshow. It was amazing, the thunderbirds did an amazing job, of course! This church's VBS is at night, so we went to church in the morning and had VBS at 6:30-8:30. This week we will probably have a lot of free time during the day, and work at night. I am helping with crafts, which is pretty cool. This church had fourteen kids today, and I am excited to see the Lord work in their lives this week. Their VBS is only Sunday- Wednesday. Thursday we are helping them with a food drive, I'm pretty excited about it! :)

Please keep us in your prayers. <3

God Bless,
Maggie :)

Belgrade/Bozeman

We've been in Belgrade for the past week. This week we have organized clothes, followed up on VBS, cleaned the church, and written over 300 letters. This week they gave us some time off though, and we went white water rafting! It was really fun. My parents came to see me this week, which was awesome! Today we hiked to the M. It is so beautiful here. When we reached the top, you could see for miles and miles. It was so beautiful. This week the church didn't really give us much work, so I don't have much information to report on our work... We had four contacts and three of them are seriously thinking about coming to church! That is an incredible decision, because Montana is so lost. They told us that Montana is almost like a foreign mission field, most of the people here don't even know where the churches are in their own cities/towns. We are leaving tonight for Helena, where we will be for the next two week. Pray for Montana and my fellow missionaries all over the state of Montana.
God Bless,
Maggie

my address

also..if anyone wanted my address that doesn't have it and wants it..i get mail once a week! :)

Maggie Smith
c/o Alesia Fowler
1 Broadwater Road
Townsend, MT 59644

I love y'all! :)

Mags

Hello all!
I have left Boulder. I am now in three forks, which is where 3 rivers meet to form the Missouri river. Tomorrow we will be weighing fish, so I will basically be smelling like one tomorrow evening. Tomorrow three forks is holding a fishing tournement. I'm excited to see how God can move in the fishing tounement tomorrow. Boulder was a very interesting place. I felt like I was in a western movie the whole time! On Tuesday they held a surprise Birthday party for me, which was awesome. I was in charge of the drama camp for the week. It was fun, we even had some kids who were in summer school come and take part in the camps. The camps were a great outreach for the community. Jennifer (one of my partners) was in charge of the basketball camp which had the greatest amount of kids come. Back yard Bible club for the youngest kids was headed up by Lauren and Stephanie (my other two partners).They did a great job. Our group has really gotten close. We seem like a family now, which is good. We've been praying for unity! :) It is June 19 and I have just now figured out all of the ins and outs of blogging, it took me long enough didn't it?
Continue to pray for Montana. :D

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Today was my last day in Wolf Creek. I'm pretty sad about it, because everyone at that little church was so sweet. My preschoolers actually got something out of VBS this past week. Surprisingly, the youngest girl in my class remembered the most bible verses for the week. I was blown away at how much that little four year old could remember. Kids are a lot smarter than the get credit for! Today when I said goodbye to everyone, Emmy (my four year old) told me bye and that she loved me. That made my day. :) The church ladies knew it was my birthday, and gave me a birthday card that has really nice messages on it as well. I just had a bittersweet day.

Tomorrow we leave for Boulder, and get our mail!! I'm pretty excited about getting my mail!

Maggie Smith

John 3:30

in awe

Montana is the most beautiful place I've ever been. I am constantly reminded of how GREAT our God is that we serve. I am at a small church for the week with a VBS that lasts all day! It seriously lasts from 9:30 TO 3 P.M.! isn't that crazy!? I've never heard of anything like this in my life! I am working with 3 year olds to pre-schoolers and they are as cute as a button, but they are a handful! We are being spoiled this week by the church members...they make THE best food EVER! I am saying in a log cabin that was made by the owner.

I really think these kids are getting something out of this VBS. Please continue to pray for this summer in Montana.

God Bless!!!

Maggie

Hey y'all...
I have arrived Montana, ... I stayed up for a really long time yesterday, but I am very excited about this summer. All of the Montana missionaries are here in Missoula with me. We are staying in a church. :) There are like 15 girls and 5 guys. I am only serving with one of the girls. the other two i am serving with have already gone through orientation!
I must go..
God Bless

Maggie