Vacation Bible School

This past week, we held a vacation Bible school at our church for three days. Tuesday afternoon we had our opening ceremonies-complete with the flags being brought in and the national anthem played! The young people from our church did a good job of decorating the church for the event.
Jen and Lia did a little skit to get the kids excited about vacation Bible school and to introduce our theme for the week-the fruits of the Spirit.

In addition to the young people from our church, we also had a team of six people come from a large Presbyterian church in the capital to help out. Wilf and Nico taught the oldest class-13 and up. All the other classes were taught by the young people.

Each day, they began with singing. Action songs are always popular. The young people all stood in front of the kids to make sure they could all see how to do the actions!

The team from the capital slept at the mission office, but they joined us for all the meals. Lia, Jen and I took turns cooking for them. In the mornings and the evenings they did some different activities. The first evening, we had all the young people here and after Wilf did a devotional, he organized a rousing game of "perro ama al gato", or "cat loves dog". It was a great hit!! Thankfully we had a large group come from our own church-many who we haven't seen in a long time. Wednesday morning, they all headed out to hike to a woman's house from our church.

Nate, Kris and Brad went to VBS every afternoon, but they love to be included in all the events!

Thursday afternoon, we had a short program that we invited all the parents to. Each of the classes performed something they had learned. Unfortunately, our camera doesn't take great indoor pictures, so the pictures aren't great. But they give you a bit of an idea anyways!

Above is Brad's class singing a song they learned.

Kristen was the only white kid in her class. She really loved going every afternoon, even though she can't communicate very much.

Nathan was part of a skit his class put on about the Good Samaratan.

There were a lot of people at the final program! We had at least a hundred kids at the VBS and quite a few parents came as well.

After the closing, the young people all came back here for a campfire and hotdog roast. Again, we had a large group and Wilf had a wonderful opportunity to really challenge them to live for the Lord.

We had a great week and we thank the Lord for this new opportunity. We pray for the young people in our church, that they will continue to have a zeal for good things. And we pray for the kids and their parents who heard the Word of God this week.