Twenty-two enthusiastic children between the ages of 3–10 years had a whale of a time at VBS this summer. From July 2–4 we gathered at St. Augustine’s in New Harbour and learned about this amazing universe we live in and all the plants, animals, and people we share it with.
We made sunflower crafts and painted rocks, planted pumpkin seeds to be ready for Halloween, ate dirt cake and shortbread people, and played silent ball and musical lily pads. We even wrote a letter to the Earth telling how we planned to change the way we treated it—and received an answer back!
On the Friday we had an awesome tea party to which we had all invited one special person, like our Nan or Pop. It was fun to show them one of our action songs.
The next Sunday, we brought our families to church to celebrate and give thanks for all the fun we had learning about God’s World of Wonder and how we are called to care for it and for one another. We played our rhythm instruments and sang our special songs: “Praise Him, Praise Him,” “Who Put the Colours in the Rainbow,” and “God Made the Chickens and the Cows and the Bees.” And we made the promises from our letter to the earth into our Intercessions that day, to ask God to help us keep them.
Our little homegrown VBS was a time of wonder, fun, and caring for one another. Our young learners were examples for all of us to follow of how to work and play together with kindness and cooperation and love—just the way God intended it to be.
