Well, VBS is over for this year, and went quite well I understand. The children really enjoyed everything and all the efforts going into it proved fruitful for the Lord.

When I've been able to help out in the past I have really enjoyed myself, but this year I had to work, with zero chance of being off. I talked to my pastor's wife, a very active woman in the Lord's service, and she told me that at this year's VBS, she had the "coolest job in the world."

She was right, she did. When any of the little children asked to speak about Jesus, she was the one who got to do it, collectively or one-to-one. She's an obvious choice as she's been working with children for many years and loves them to pieces.

I remember when she took a part-time job at a local seafood restaurant one year. A number of the young people working at that restaurant came to know Jesus and one night, two of them, a man about 25 and a woman about that same age visited our Wednesday night service to share how she had talked with them while working with them over time and how grateful they were that they had been led to God in Christ by her.

The young man jokingly recalled how he had heard the restaurant owner politely confront her and remark that he knew she had only come to work there to lead everyone to Christ. He couldn't complain about the affect it had on the other employees, nor her work habits, so he was pretty cool with the whole thing. She in fact, takes just about every opportunity that is presented to her to reach people's hearts for Jesus. If you call her at home, you will hear her cheerful voice say, "Hi, Jesus loves you!" I seriously wonder what sort of a response she gets from telemarketers.

A friend of mine recently gave a Bible study which centered on being effective for Jesus, starting where you are. It's important to remember that we may think of "bigger things," bigger "venues" within which to reach people's hearts and lead as many as possible to a saving knowledge of Jesus. The thing is, sometimes for us, with the Holy Spirit, thinking smaller, might actually be thinking "bigger." Who knows what crop the seeds we plant will grow down the road? Who knows what the person we lead to God in Christ will accomplish for the Lord.

Opportunities of any kind to strike up a conversation with an unbeliever, build trust and set examples with our heart held beliefs, even in the smallest of ways should never be ignored. Life is short and we have a tremendous responsibility to do the work set before us by God. One word, one small and seemingly insignificant action on our parts, however unrelated it may seem in terms of soteriology may speak volumes to someone's soul.