A few weeks ago was our Vacation Bible School at our church. The theme was Legos and Building God's Kingdom. We are a some what small church but ended up with around 120 kids that came and over 70 volunteers from our church that made it happen. The kids moved around between 4 stations, bible, recreation, missions/snacks, and craft, during the 3 hours with us. We split the kids up into 12 colored teams by ages. The older teens and junior high aged students were able to be team leaders who lead the kids from one station to another and helped them participate. It was a great week of learning more about how we can build God's kingdom.
Registration on first morning.
Cam and Logan ready for some fun on the first morn.
Ally on first morning- on the pink team.
Everyone with their teams waiting for opening on first morn.
Each team had a bucket of Lego's on their mat to build something with when they arrived each morning and were waiting for opening session to begin.
Cam's team. Miss Katie leading.
Cam and Logan building.
Purple team
Annie and Mackenzie led a group together.
Red team
Ally's pink team
Gold team
Blue team
Natalie helped me in missions and snacks
Houston and Terry were team leaders.
Houston with other team leaders.
Ms. Reagan opening things up for us.
Worship band first morning.
Emmy helping to lead worship.
A lego video was played at each opening and closing along with the theme song Everything Is Awesome from the movie.
Worship time first morning
I was in snacks/missions each day so most of my pictures were from there but I was able to sneak out and get a few from crafts which was just next door. The rest of the pictures were taken by my friend Allison who photographed the week.
Ally with a new friend in missions first morning.
Days of creation snack on first morning.
Missions first morning. The kids learned about some of the local ministries that our church supports like a men's firehouse downtown and a local food bank. They also heard from several missionaries during the week that our church supports.
Ally with Rosalee and Aiden
Crafts from 1st day.
A few pictures from Day 2..........
Lego Man and Pastor Ken. Lego man paid us a visit each day during opening and closing.
Emmy & Annie helped lead worship each day by teaching the kids motions to the worship songs.
Annie leading worship
Snack 2nd day- building Noah's Ark
Missions 2nd day- Jennifer sharing about Swaziland Africa. The kids ate their snack every day while listening to missions.
Camden and Nate
Logan and Cam building their arks.
That's me sitting in the background in the chair with the light blue on.
Daisy wearing her VBS shirt.
A few pictures from the 3rd day.......
During craft time on 3rd day the kids built Tower of Babels out of marshmallows.
Ally & friend.
Jack
Gracie
Sydney building the Tower of Babel.
Annie helping her team build the tower of Babel.
Brothers Jack and Tai
Snack on the 3rd day was building towers of Babel out of graham cracker and frosting.
Ally building her Tower of Babel.
Natalie helping during snack.
Leaders Lindsey and Rachel
Emmy helped with the Pre-K throughout the week.
A few pictures from Day 4........
Craft on day 4 was to make crosses with cereal, a gumdrop, and marshmallows.
Sara praying over the missionaries The Moores who shared with the kids one day.
Craft area
Ally painting a cross on day 4 in crafts.
In the craft center there were lego centers set up for the kids to play with after finishing their crafts each day.
Shellyn teaching the kids during bible time.
Some pictures from recreation taken by others........
Ally during recreation.
A few pictures from the last day........
Camden and Andrew
On the last day the kids decorated cookies to look like themselves.
Throughout the week the kids brought in items to donate to a local ministry (food bank) that our church helps. It was made to be a competition between the boys and girls. At the end of the week over 500 items had been collected to donate!
The boys ended up bringing more items than the girls so Ms. Reagan got a pie in the face on Friday.
Logan and Camden with Lego man!
And here is what I thought was the most precious picture of the week taken by my friend Alli.....
A video from opening session on Wednesday.....
And a video of all of the faces of VBS 2014. See if you can spot our kiddos in this........
So thankful for such a wonderful week of learning more about God's word and kingdom.
"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." Matthew 6:33
