This week Ella experienced Vacation Bible School for the first time….and LOVED it!!!
The theme was PandaMania.
Day 1: God Made You – Genesis 1
Day 2: God Listens to You – Kings 18:16-39
Day 3: God Watches Over You – Jonah 1-3
Wednesday evening for church, a few “little” kids enjoyed a bible story, a craft and snacks.
The decorations where fantastic!
Owen was 1 of 2 boys there…he ran from all the girls the entire time. Ha!
Day 4: God Loves You, No Matter What – Luke 22:31-24:12
Day 5: God Gives Good Gifts – 1 Samuel 1:1-2:11
Friday night was the PandaMania Party!
All of the kids preformed the songs they learned throughout the week.
We ate pizza, nachos, snow cones & much more!
The kids enjoyed the bounce house, dunking booth & cupcake walk….we had so much fun!!!!!
The pre-school age children dressed up as Panda bears.
We are SO proud of Ella, she did an awesome job singing!
There were 101 children who registered!
Owen sat very still and listened so well to the kids singing.
Nana came to enjoy the party too.
These cute the pandas is what the kids got at the cup cake walk.
All the girls got these tattoos on their foreheads. By the looks of Ella’s hair…I think she got a little close to the dunking booth.
All of the kids decorated a “Jesus Loves Me” backpack and bookmark that will be given to a child in need. Each backpack will include a Bible. The cost of each Bible is $2.00. All donations made during VBS week went toward the purchase of Bibles for the backpacks. The deal about this was: Amy (Ella’s pre-school teacher this past year) our preachers wife, made a deal with Mark. If the girls donated more money than the boys, then Mark got to be the first in the dunking booth and vise versa. By Thursday the boys were ahead. Two of the 5th grade girls sold Lemon aid at a garage sale all afternoon Friday and earned $60 and donated EVERY dollar made toward the mission project!!!! What an amazing testimony these girls are beginning.
I’m very thankful for the people who volunteered their time to VBS this year.
