Our theme this year was Veggie Tales, "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything". We did an all day VBS on Saturday and had two stories: Moses and the Burning Bush and Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. The memory verse for the day was Philippians 4:13 and the kids were encouraged to "Be a Hero for God". The kids had a wonderful time and there were so many people who put in a lot of effort for a one day event. A ship was built in our fellowship hall and it was truly awesome. One of the ladies made a Larry the Cucumber costume and different adults/teens took turns dressing up and having photos made with the kids. The teens "performed" the stories for the kids in the auditorium and they used the ship for puppet shows to retell the stories. Unfortunately, I didn't get to see the skits as I was helping in other areas. We had just over 100 people (including the adults who came and the workers). That's a great number for a one day VBS! On Sunday, during the Bible study hour, the kids gathered together again and reviewed the stories. We finished off with a hamburger/hot dog potluck and the Veggie Tales movie about Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego (The pirate movie doesn't get released until October). Anyway, I took a few photos........
Here's my Little Brandon with Big Brandon! They're buddies. Playing peek-a-boo and just hanging out. The teens did skits for the stories, so they had down time while the young kids were in the other rooms on rotations.
Here's Brandon and Emily. They had a lot of fun together too. Emily was in charge of Brandon's lunch too! He ended up napping in the office for a couple of hours in his playpen.
This is the magnificent Pirate Ship and some of the teens practicing while the young kids were in the other rooms doing crafts, science, etc. Just to put in perspective, the little guy looking up at the ship on the left is my Brandon!
And finally, the pirates! Marilyn got Brandon to wear a pirate bandana! Aye, Aye Mateys!! A fun time was had by all. (I didn't get any good photos of Gunner!)
3 comments:
Looks like fun!
Okay, this is kind-of embarrassing, but I HAD to comment. I am a 'lurker' on your blogs because I don't feel like I quiiiiiite know you well enough to just comment right along with everything. :) You know we pray for you, though, and I appreciate being able to keep up with you guys!!
Do you realize how perfectly-timed your post about the pirate VBS is??? (This is where it gets embarrassing.) My husband and children are into all-things-pirate. I mean, they're not obsessed with it, they just talk about it and care about it all way more than I do. LOL At any rate, Today, September 19th, is "Annual Talk Like a Pirate Day"!! To celebrate, for supper we ate pirate food and dressed up a little bit like pirates, and we tried to talk like pirates ... which is hard to do, much beyond, "Aye, Aye Mateys!" :) And then I read it on your blog!!! Awesome!!!! LOL
You're right about that amazing pirate ship they built! What a great VBS; I'm always thankful when such team effort goes into creating excellent, memorable events like that.
I'm so glad to see my sister (Sunny) is keeping up with you and praying for you. I too think that ship looks amazing! Good job to the church there for all the hard work - it looks like it went really well. Brandon in the pirate bandana is too, too cute!
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