Amazing Race VBS at Berea!

We fit in a full week of evening VBS at Berea at the start of June.

 I taught the 6th grade group and had some awesome help

from my friend April and DH!

I had all boys which was right up my alley.

The Answers in Genesis material was VERY GOOD.

Loved the theme and material this year.

I was greatly challenged by one lesson about the Tower of Babel and who people scattered from there essentially creating our race/culture system.  Totally fascinating!

Great group all week.

Science/Craft was their favorite all nights

Did a homemade scavenger hunt the last night for hearts with

bible verses that fit our theme.   I created the hunt using foreign words.

They really enjoyed it!

Just like always I tend to go into things with a plan of what to expect and what limits are to be expected.  I should know better, I mean God ALWAYS exceeds those expectations! I received blessing after  blessing this year.  One big blessing the form of a quiet student who was engaged all week an even answered questions the last night!  Sweet victory in Jesus!

Time Lab VBS || Berea

We had a great week at our Time Lab VBS

at Berea this week!

D'Andrea and I taught a very fun 6th grade class and had  big group all week.

We did our best to teach each days material and bible concept mixed

with a bit of fun for each night.

We talked about a mix of topics all week from Answers VBS Time Lab

We started the first night and this rope was talking about creation and the beginning of time

then we did a simple group challenge of making the rope form a square with blindfolds

 Pretty darn good Sam and Isaac

 We played a couple get to know you games. This one was down down down.

Miss the ball and you go down on one knee, two knees, one elbow, etc.

They thought it was too hard, ha.

We had craft lab every night, these teachers put their heart in it.

Little bible concept intro each night and then a craft - very fun!

And this big kid - we had fun all week - we wore

bandannas for our classroom color but we had extra each night

so we had all sorts of colors - most of them enjoyed wearing them

in all sorts of ways.

Bible version of heads up - tons of genuine laughs.

This group is ultra competitve.

We have a mix of 3 competing schools in this group.

It is VERY good for them to interact in this environment.

Be on the same team, laugh together and learn about God's promises.

We had 10-13 most nights, loved that!

We did a secret message water color reveal one night

about the message from our lesson.

Admit

Believe

Forever Receive

More games because this preteen age has a lot of energy

and they were chatters - it's an age where it could be too childish

if we stuck solely to the script from the book.

This was a out of the water version of Marco/Polo

We used the words Admit/Believe 

It was harder than it looked.

Lots of laughs though.

Last night we had pop and Heavenly Bingo

for prizes.

And finally a night without rain so we could go outside.

Our attendance all week was up because there was rain, thank the Lord!

I had made giant bubbles (weird for preteen/teens but they loved it)

who doesn't love bubbles if they are honest?!

There was no breeze so the bubble didn't float off the wands like in my practice at home,

but we laughed and made messes of ourselves as the bubbles popped on our black shorts.

All washable since I made the solution at home - they were a hit.

Here's a couple pictures of our VBS room, we used our old crib mattress for extra seating with crates (it needed a 3rd crate) - kept it comfy and interactive for the young people!

VBS 2017

I can't believe I hadn't posted about VBS yet!

We had fun at bible school this year - can't you tell from my silly grin?

SIL Shannon was the teacher for our K2 group and I was the measly helper.

Some nights I had to work so I was not early to the VBS event, ha!

These kiddos were fun though, been awhile since I had a Kindergartner = they were most satisfied by our simple puppet show.  I loved that they knew I was the puppet but still wanted to believe the puppet was real.  

I remembered that Chris had a Break the Ice game and it perfectly filled in the gaps during one of the sessions.  It provided a lot of giggles.

I made a simple igloo, seen here, to help with the room decorations.

This was simply cardboard trimmed with a box cutter, white spray paint,

 and blue painters tape!

We were very proud of Joe for his resolve in learning his lesson verses AND a challenge section of verses to earn a special Walmart gift card.  Since there were not many that were able to do it, he earned a total of $20 in gift cards.  We fit in practice that week whenever we could. #poolside

Sam baked chocolate chip cookies to take to the VBS program and picinc.

After Joe recited his verses, he had 2 items in mind to purchase with his gift cards.

He chose a Rubix cube

and I added a few dollars so he could also get pictionary -he and Sam have played well on long summer days!

We cherish VBS week!