Hello Church Family,

In today’s weekly update I wanted you to hear from Bonnie Barlow. She is going to talk about all of the great things that happened this last week during VBS. This Sunday we will be diving back into the book of Acts with a new series entitled “You Can Too.” I hope you’ll join us and invite a friend. Here’s Bonnie!

The VBS theme for this year was called Maker Fun Factory, Created by God Built a Purpose. Vacation bible school is fun way to teach kids about God’s love for everyone. This event is one way we can welcome kids and their families from the community into our church.

It takes the church as a whole to create that environment. There are lots of different ways people have an opportunity to serve in VBS. There are leaders that lead the rotations, rotating leaders, kitchen crew that feeds the vounteers and their children each night, people donating money or food, people helping decorate, people that enter in registration and people just praying. Whatever their participation is has a significance for VBS.

This year during VBS there was a prayer room called The War Room. A group of people stayed on campus in a room praying over the VBS. They prayed over the leaders, the students and their families, the church, the community, etc. This was such an added detail that made a huge difference in the environment of VBS.

There is something special in the power of prayer and welcoming God into our mist to have complete control over the events we do as a whole to bring glory to Him. God’s presence was felt and moved in an amazing way during the week of VBS.

We averaged 90-100 volunteers throughout the week. There was an average of 202 children that participated within the preschool and children’s department for the week. Each night the children heard stories from the Bible and how to apply them in their daily lives.

• Day 1 talked about how “God made you.”
• Day 2 was “God is for you.”
• Day 3 “God is always with you.” 
• Day 4 “God will always love you.” 
• Day 5 was “God made you for a reason.”