My earliest memory of church is being in the nursery at Vacation Bible School. However, VBS changed my life when I was in the 6th grade. We had just started attending church again that year and my mother was going to be teaching VBS for the first time. The first story that year was Phillip and the Ethiopian Eunuch. It was to be told using a sand pan and paper figures. My mother practiced and practiced it, by the time came to go to VBS I couldn’t wait to go. Not only did I want to see the story, it created a stir within me that made me want to be able to teach a lesson using a creative method like that. Well it has been 40+ years and I still love Vacation Bible School. I have been an assistant, teacher, craft leader and the director many times. I can’t wait for Hero Headquarters this year. What a great theme!!!
John K.
I once heard about a Sunday School teacher who put the flannelgraph characters on his belly as he told the story of Jesus calming the sea … when the wind and waves kicked up, he’d bounce up and down and the kids just LOVED it! Thank God for teachers like you who truly care enough to make God’s amazing Word memorable for our kids. Keep it up!
So many times we think that we have to have the latest technology & the “biggest” whatever in order to be effective, but actually it’s just creativity that we need! This is a wonderful story about the excitement that can inspire us, too!