We had a very busy but very tiring and very rewarding week last week at our church’s Vacation Bible School. This year’s theme was Wilderness Escape, which took the kids back to Bible times to the Israelites in the wilderness. The staff all dressed as characters from Bible times. Leah and Andrew were in the same group this year, and had a blast!
After dinner each night, they started out with the Celebration Time. The songs were awesome! They were all mostly upbeat with hand-motions that made them catchy & easy to learn. They did a great job decorating the set to look like the desert, and of course Brett always does great getting them excited first thing when they get there!
By far one of their favorite parts was Moses’ tent, which was the story time. They literally acted out the story each day by walking around outside with a person dressed as Moses.
I helped out in the Craft Tent this year, which allowed me to see all the kids as they rotated through their stations, and gave me a chance to float a little too, to see everything. We made some really cool things, too, and the kids seemed to enjoy it.
Of course another favorite is always game time. I didn’t see much of what went on there, but I know it tired them all out! Friday we borrowed a huge bouncy castle for the final night and the kids LOVED it!
Abigail had a fun time, too, I think, even though she cried every night when someone would take her away from me. She played in the nursery most of the time, and loved on the little babies that were there, but she did get to bounce too on Friday.
Although most of the kids were either a lot younger or a lot older than Leah, she did make a new friend named Apple, who’s 4. And she’s going to start coming to our church more regularly, so she’s over the moon to now have 2 pretty good friends at church! Andrew is just happy to have anyone to play with!
Our Closing Ceremony was this morning during the church service. They got to say some of the memory verses they worked on each day, sing the songs, and talk about what they learned. I think they all learned a lot about Moses & the Israelites and had a great week!
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