The past three evenings, our church had Vacation Bible School. Our theme this year was Cave Quest. The picture to the right is the entrance of a cave a trio of men created for us. It is on the dais at the front of the sanctuary. The kids really seemed to like the decorations and the lessons.
Our Children's Ministries Director started us thinking about VBS in February. She assembled her craft ladies, her registration ladies, her snack ladies, utilized our youth as part of the crew leaders. The rest of the crew leaders were women, most of whom had done it in years past.
Last Friday, the director's mother had to be taken to the ER and was admitted to the hospital. She had a gallbladder attack. Saturday morning, we were to start decorating the church. The director called me and told me she wouldn't make it to the meeting. We decorated the Christian Education wing hallways. This is one wall we managed to do on Saturday. A dear friend finished it up with bats, the flying kind, placed every so often.
On Sunday, we learned that the director's mother was going to have surgery at noon. We were to meet at 2:30 to finish decorating the church. Several of us were there for three hours and created more cave walls. The fellowship hall and the hall leading to it were covered like the above picture. Again, final touched of moths, and bats were added.
On Tuesday night, our pastor dressed like a spelunker and gave lessons on Jesus being the light of the world. One of the smaller rooms of the church was made to resemble a dark cave. He gave all the kids glow sticks because Jesus' light will not go out and does show in this dark world.
This was my station. I pre-register and register kids. I had three women who were going to help me. However, one of them has a brother who had heart surgery on Monday.
Our director is ready to loan us out to other churches to teach how to have a successful Vacation Bible School. On Sunday, there is a closing program during our main service. Following that, there is an all-church picnic. Those children who came to Bible School and their parents and siblings are invited to attend the worship service and picnic.
God was with us during the planning, the decorating and the Bible School.
Wow! Amazing how you all came together and carried on even when some were called away because of family emergencies and illness...God is so good to give wisdom to His children and the heart to carry on in the Name of the Lord so that others will be blessed. I pray for the children who came that many will be saved and turned their hearts to the Lord. Amen.
ReplyDeleteWe can only do these thing because God is in them. I could not help take down the decorations this afternoon, (Sun) because I have had Fibro- flare in my legs most of this past week. I shared two videos on Facebook that a friend made of the VBS children singing sons at our church service today. The director said she would get some of the youth to help take down the decorations. I have to get my registration supplies to her.
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