This week I am leading Vacation Bible School..... again. Our new church has VBS at the end of the summer where our old one has VBS at the beginning. I don't mind doing it and I love teaching children about Jesus. It is just interesting the difference between the two.
My large church ran around 1100 in VBS. The small one is celebrating 55 children. When you put it in perspective though the large church had 20% of the total members at VBS and the small church has 37% of the total members at VBS. The total offering taken for the large church was about $1.36 per child. This is only Tuesday and the children at the small church have already collected $1.00 per child. I'll update on Friday and let you know how we did. We are raising money to buy a water system for a village in Africa.
Our new church is such a family. Betty the grandmother is the director, her husband is driving the van, their two daughters are teaching, her four grandchildren (teenagers) are also helping. Nelda is the director of the preschool, her daughter and niece are teaching, two grandchildren are helping teenagers and 2 great nephews are attending. I could go on but it would just get confusing. Families who serve the Lord together, stay together.
I'll update on Friday about how many children we have total the whole week. Pray for my 4 and 5 year olds that they will know that Jesus loves them. Many of them come from families who are struggling to get by. Pray that the older children will learn to know and love Jesus and that some of them will make a decision to accept Jesus in their hearts.
This sounds just like the church I grew up in-a family affair all the way around. My mom used to pack our whole neighborhood into our station wagon (before seatbelt laws) and we'd all to to VBS. I have such fond memories of those days. I'll pray that your VBS kids will be as blessed as I was.
Thanks for all your comments! I should just save money and email you my rants. :)
Posted by: k | July 28, 2005 at 07:16 PM