It’s the end of Day Two of our church’s Vacation Bible School. We’re doing Superhero Headquarters. Catchy tunes, but I miss the old songs I sang as a girl. “Father Abraham,” “This Little Light of Mine,” “I am a C – H – R – I – S – T – I – A – N.”
I learned a lot of theology in those simple songs.
It’s Susan’s last year because she’s twelve, next year she wants to be a teacher’s helper so she can wear a costume. Lucy intentionally bumped up to the kindergartners. Edmund accidentally enrolled in with an older age group because I never can keep track of what his public school grade should be. Peter had everyone up at 6: 30 am so we wouldn’t be late. Yesterday we were 15 minutes late. Today we left early.
I think I finally have a child willing to be the official time keeper other than I.
I guess you can learn more than just Bible from Vacation Bible School.
I’m in the “store”. Does your church do a store, where you earn stamps for memory verses, bringing a friend, having good behavior, so you can trade in the smiley faces for candy and cheap toys? I’m not sure I like the store. Don’t tell my kids I said that.
One of my favorite aspects of VBS is the crafts. I’ve always loved the crafts. I think I’ll scan a few of my favorites from this year and post them. That may be the only way they survive.
Currently there are seven kids in my house. Ages: 12, 10, 10, 10 as of tomorrow, 9, 8 and 5.
It’s raining.
Maybe I should get off the computer.
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And I have C-H-R-I-S-T in my H-E-A-R-T and I will L-I-V-E E-T-E-R-N-A-L-L-Y! thanks for the trip down memory lane! Glad your little ones are enjoying VBS!
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I didn’t learn those older songs as a child but I really did enjoy learning them with Kiddo in his AWANA classes! My church is doing VBS this week as well – our theme is “Bees” and there are some really great Bible lessons that have been creatively tied in to that.
This is the first year I’m not an “on-site” helper for VBS (I couldn’t take off more days from work) but I still coordinated all the snacks in advance … for 200 kids plus about 50 adult/teen helpers. It’s crazy, but it’s a wonderful community outreach as well.
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Our church has the HERO headquarters this week too, and a neighboring church had it last week, so my daughter asked to go twice. I am guessing this week she acts more like a know-it-all than usual, since they are doing pretty much the same things as last week. She loves it so much that she asked if there is another church having this next week so she can go again!
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I knew there was somethign bothering me about all those silly packaged materials. The songs are nearly useless as actual memory helps and those songs that everyone knew were a blessing because they could be passed down and you didn’t need to track down the working cd player in order to learn them.
We are starting our VBS this week and guess what? we are doing the Bible Heroes theme as well. Will have to agree with you about the songs though. Thank God for CD with the old ones.
God is my hero is my favorite song and theme song.