Get ZAPPED

This past week, the boys and I got ZAPPED at vacation Bible school. Due to the size of our church and the number of participants, students under kindergarten age cannot attend unless their parent volunteers.  I actually wanted to work so it worked out well. I led a team of 12 rising 3rd and 4th graders around to their different areas.  Areas included were: Bible, Missions, Crafts, Games, and Snacks.

The theme this year was ZAPPED and we studied the life of Peter.  The memory verse of the week was 1 Peter 1:3, "God has given us everything we need to live a Godly life."

Each day we learned about how we can tap into God's power in our life through examining Peter's life.

We did the following lessons

• Calling of Peter (Luke 5:1-11)*
• Peter Walks on Water (Matthew 14:22-34)*
• Peter is the Rock (Matthew 16:13-28)*
• Peter’s Denial and Restoration (Mark 14:66-72, Luke 22:54-62)*
• Peter and Cornelius (Acts 10)*

This entire year our church is raising money to get 2 books of the Bible translated for a people group in China who don't have a single verse of the Bible translated in their language.  The goal for VBS was to have the kids bring in enough offering to translate the whole 2nd chapter of Luke (the birth narrative).  Each verse cost about $30 to translate and the kids were amazing! They brought in over $2600 to get all of Luke 2 and 3 translated!! They were sooo excited!

My boys enjoyed Bible school though weren't sure about going every day.  In the end, they had fun and made the sweetest little books.  Owen learned some new songs and we listen to the cd all the time in the car now.

I didn't get to take many pictures, but here is my sweet little group doing water games on Friday.

This is the large group worship time. The kids loved rushing to the front to sing and dance!

(Sorry, I can't get it to flip) Oliver and Owen's little books

I'm looking forward to next summer's VBS already!