That is the theme of our Vacation Bible School this year. Tonight is the last night--a cookout for the kids and their parents. I would say this year's VBS was a success. Though nothing is ever perfect, over the years we have worked on fine-tuning every detail. For the first time since I've been at Sand Springs, we broke the 100 mark...twice. Two nights we recorded 101 KIDS in attendance. At least one Bible study has been set up with parents and many have been invited to come worship with us on Sunday.
Every night we had a game show in the final assembly. An adult contestant, with the help of 4 students, grades Pre-K through 6th and the Host of the Show, Bob Fitzworthy. The kids were amazing as far as what they had learned and retained throughout the night. The lessons were on the Ten Plagues of Egypt. Lee Smith was a better Moses than Charlton Heston, and Neal's Pharoah wasn't too shabby. The first night, they learned quickly to "tone it down" for the younger ones, as one little 3 year old in tears had to be removed. But there were some priceless moments, such as when Moses was telling that the water would turn to blood and 3 year old Gage gasped, "Oh nooooo, that would be BAAAD." And on the third night (plagues 5, 6 and 7) when one little girl asked Moses, "Do you think if I give Pharoah a hug, he'll let the people go?"
3 comments:
This is so neat! Did you have material to follow or did you make up all you own stuff?
All our own stuff. That's why it takes us almost a year to put it together. Theme, decorations, visuals, scripts, costumes, game show questions, crafts, t-shirts, advertising banners, puppet show, etc., etc. We have a wonderful audio-visual guy who put together the game show effects, you'd have to see it to believe it. He also puts together the video to show the parents tonight.
AWESOME!
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