Giggles, loud laughter, singing, recitation, clapping, chatting, munching, and many other sounds were heard today as I observed and also sat in my office today. The noise was so loud at times that in some of the meetings we had upstairs we could barely hear each other talking. Today was the first day of VBS at the church at Adoration Christian Centre. There were some older ladies that had taken the time to organize a VBS week. They had many young people come and volunteer for the week. At 8:45 the children started to arrive at Adoration. By 9:30 we had over 100 children. By snack time there were at least 150 children there. If things progress like they did last year then by Friday we should have five times as many children there. Last year we started with 20 and ended with 100. Here are some pictures of today’s festivities.
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| Getting everyone’s name and age. |
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| All the volunteers got white shirts to wear. |
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| The leader of VBS. |
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| Singing a song. |
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| Singing and clapping. |
There were three classes each for different age levels. The rooms were packed full and the teachers were busy teaching songs and memory verses.
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| Listening to the others share their memory text. |
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| “Read your Bible pray every day and you will grow grow grow…” |
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| Play time…getting rid of some of that energy. |
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| Lunch time. |
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| The helpers handing out food. |
