I Love Vacation Bible School

Beloved:
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            We still do Vacation Bible School and we still call it vacation Bible school.  It’s way out of style for cool churches, but I just can’t let it go.  Crafts and games and Bible stories.  Snacks and songs and so many hugs.  Every inch of our building will be sticky.  We’ll run out of band-aids, trash bags and toilet paper.  For weeks after, we’ll find forgotten shoes and leftover crafts and be too exhausted to haul away the recycling.  And I’d need a whole other heart to love it any more.

            I love how hard this little congregation works to put this on for twenty-odd kids.  I love how our directors now whip a theme together like a baker makes a pie.  I love our new partnership with Red Door Church and all it brings to this occasion.  I love how loved all these little ones don’t even know they are.  They are just having so much fun.  I love watching kids grow up one week a year for years and years and years.  Our VBS teen helpers now were once our preschool class.  I love how low-budget our program is – how our big investment is the time and energy kindness requires.

            The VBS offering this year goes to the Monroe County Community Kitchen Summer Lunch Program, which provides free sack lunch every day of summer for kids who qualify for free lunch at school.  It’s pretty cool, and UBC’er Vicki Pierce is the CK Executive Director.  If you aren’t involved in VBS and want to give to the offering, just send checks to church with CK VBS Offering in the memo.  We will also collect a VBS offering in service this coming Sunday, June 16th.
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            Finally, if you are in town, please come eat with us on Friday night at 6 PM – Friday Pizza Fellowship for VBS families, workers, UBC congregation and guests, pretty much anyone who wants to come.  We’re just eating together and relaxing after a sweet week.  Hope to see you!

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