Though I wanted to spend as much time with J. as possible while he was home for his holiday, we had to leave for Waterloo to run the leadership training and the kids' summer camp.
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| We had 14 youth leaders this year helping with VBS camp for kids |
The youth leadership camp was for two days only this year. I prepared most of the materials for the participants who were number fourteen strong this year. After 2 days, I felt tired and hated the thought of leaving J. at home.
But as we opened the camp the following week, I was energized by the two dozen more so children.
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| The third generation of our youth leaders are rising up fast! |
We have been running this summer camp for a number of years; the children have returned year after year!!!
Little three year old Angela is ten years old this year and she asked me when she would be her turn to become a leader!
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| It's important to have well structured free time for campers at VBS. |
As past years, we did many different activities each day.
We started with Learning Centre activities in the small classroom, followed by singing in the sanctuary.
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| Our VBS was held at the World Outreach Ministries site |
We did our games and sports in the morning after singing when the temperatures were milder.
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| Presenting bible stories in skits were well received by campers in our VBS |
A short break followed and it was bible story time presented to the children in a drama style by the youth leaders. The concepts of the bible story being reinforced in a craft activity right after.
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| A guessing game was popular with kids. |
After lunch, the children had a theme lesson. Since this is Canada's 150, we used the theme Canada 150.
The leaders divided themselves and presented a different region of Canada each day to the children who evidently enjoyed learning about something unique of each province.
After learning about this, the leaders really took their task seriously and worked hard on preparing and rehearsing their bible skits.
We took the stories from 1 Samuel and the children learned about David's forgiveness of Saul.
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| Face painting was popular with kids too! |
The vacation bible school concluded with a fun fair on Friday.
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| Parents were invited to our VBS Sunday Service |
The Sunday after our VBS camp is always a special program held on that day designated as a VBS Sunday.
We invited parents of the children to come and did a VBS presentation for them.
It was nice to see a good turn out of parents! Praise God for another successful and safe VBS camp!
R.T.
Director
VBS
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada
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