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Vacation Bible School: Son Rock Kids Camp
Sunday July 19, 2009 11:12 pm by Kendra | Filed under adam, sam, wendy.Wendy & Sam just wrapped up a week of “Vacation Bible Camp” and had a great time. It’s funny, we called it Vacation Bible School, but they made a point of calling it Vacation Bible Camp – I guess because the theme was “Son Rock Kids Camp“, but also, I’m guessing because “camp” sounds more appealing to school-aged kids than “school”.
The program the kids attended was at a little church in our community. It was Wendy’s third year of VBS and Sam’ second. When I first started looking for programs a couple of years ago, I discovered most VBS programs aren’t geared for the pre-K crowd, but this church took three year olds and really seems to make a point of gearing their ministry to the younger set. The program was divided into two basic groups – the pre-K crowd (which Sam was in) and the “older kids” – K to 5th grade, which Wendy was in. I worried about it being a big age range, but I think most of the kids in her group were close to her age and she loved being a big kid.
I loved that the program is very Christ-centered and focuses on sharing the gospel with the “campers”. The daily themes were:
Day 1 – Accepted by Jesus
Day 2 – Protected by Jesus
Day 3 – Saved by Jesus
Day 4 – Forgiven by Jesus, and
Day 5 – Living for Jesus
There were Bible stories each day, that the Wendy & Sam were able to recount to us, as well as fun games they played. They always have a “water day” where they break out the slip n’ slides, blow-up pools, etc. and the kids LOVE it. To conclude their VBS program, they invited the children and their families to attend church on Sunday. The kids got to sing a couple of songs in front of the church, and the service was concluded with a picnic. What a great outreach to the community! If we didn’t already love our church home, I would consider attending there.
Anywho, here’s the pics from the week:
First day of VBS
My cuties
The day started (and ended) with songtime in the chapel
Last day of VBS
Cheese, sorta
These pics are so blurry they are worthless, but check out Wendy helping her bro
She helped him get his shirt on. It was so sweet.
Singing “The wise man built his house upon the rock…”
Facepaint
Closeup
That signature smile
A nice cookout
With cotton candy!
Chomp
Playground – totally shady.. except for the play structure
man at the helm
hi ya!
another chomper
swing!
watch out for that hand!
Tags: spiritual development, vbs
How funny, we just finished up attending a VBS or “Christian Bible School” that’s what Amanda called it:) It was Son Rock Kids Camp too and we loved that curriculum too. They had a program for the kids to perform for the moms/dads too. The church is in our community and we feel the same way, if we didn’t already have a church home I think that is where we would go! The pastor was a helper in the camp all week and was super friendly! We went there last year since they take 2 year olds, but you are so right I don’t know too many VBS programs that include the tiny ones which I think it pretty sad. I figure they don’t want to deal with the “potty issues” or they don’t understand how much little 2/3′s can learn about God! How wrong they are! The three year old class was one of the largest! They gave us a CD of all of the songs and we have been singing them non-stop!
We went to the same VBS as Monica and loved it. The theme was a lot of fun and the kids thought it was great. If we were looking for another church, I would want to visit that one.