vacation bible school

Vacation Bible School for the Small Church
Summer is just around the corner and for many churches so is Vacation Bible School. There are more and more themes available each year. For the VBS Director, choosing a theme is one of the hardest duties but the most enjoyable. Since vacation bible school is the biggest outreach event for many churches choosing the right curriculum becomes a daunting task.Most VBS curriculum kits are written for large churches but they can be scaled down for even the smallest of churches. Small church VBS directors must be very creative and budget minded. As you review each kit keep your church in mind by asking these questions:

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As promised in my last blog, here are the lessons I've learned- all from the B's.

Bigotry- Still alive and well in June, 2006. It's disturbing to me that people still hate each other because they have more melanin in their skin. While I was in visiting relatives, they mentioned that a black couple had moved in down the street. I knew instantly that no good would come of this story. Just think about it. Why is that something that warrants a mention?? In my ideal world, that should be such a non-event that nobody even brings it up. Sure enough, the neighborhood set about finding a confederate flag so that the old, white guy across the street from them could hang it on his flag pole. Niiiiiice. I'm willing to lay down ten bucks that says they were afraid the black people would lower their property value. Somehow, I don't think they thought about how much lower it went with a confederate flag hanging out there. And one of the people who thought it was a riot has a grandbaby that is half-black. It makes me physically ill that my kids will know bigoted assholes like this. These kind of people were supposed to drink themselves to death on homemade moonshine a long time ago.

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