Vacation Bible School

Our church's vaction bible school was last week. It's a week filled with many exciting and fun things, including exhaustion by the time Friday rolls around. Each year has a different theme. This year was a theme park. The stage was complete with a carousel, ferris wheel, and roller coaster. There were little holes carved out on each of the kids mouths that were on the roller coaster so the cast could squirt pretend throw-up out with silly string...too funny!

Here's Conner on Monday night...Taylor and I were tour guides for his group.

Sammy and Ben wanted to "spike" their hair for this special occasion...oh, the joys of fixing boys hair. I honestly thought that the task of fixing hair was reserved for the mothers of girls, but boy was I wrong!

Here are some of the kids right before Tuesday night was over. It's wild in our gym, but so worth it. Most of these kids have never been in a church or heard the gospel. It really isn't about trying to cram in a bunch of bible to kids in a week...it's about reaching little ones and telling them about Jesus. Taylor and I averaged about 12-14 kids a night in our group...half of them got saved!!

This was the look on Taylor's face each night because he got the fun job of dropping Sam off in his pre-school class...Sam screamed EVERY night. But after 5 minutes, he ended up having fun(or so the teachers said).

Taylor was a song leader(far right). I have to brag about my husband because he does a fantastic job getting the kids involved. He's goofy and loud and so funny when he dances around. A lady he didn't know came up to him at the end of one of the nights and told him that he was the "best bible school singer she's ever seen!" He's got such an amazing heart for the ministries he's involved in and this was no exception.

Many children came to know the Lord this week which is exciting news. That is really our main goal in running a bible school every summer. We also were able to raise money for a missionary, too. Also, the girls won the penny war--woo hoo!!! Go girls!!