TGIF!

What a fantastic week of Vacation Bible School! Lots of fun, lots of screaming (my ten year old has no voice left--which might be a good thing) : ) lots of prizes and cookies and candy.

Also lots of hay all over everything, lots of spilled soda and stopped up toilets. But hey, you gotta take the bad with the good, don't you?

This is our third year of VBS. We've broken all previous records, and we're getting bigger every year. It's a really exciting time. We actually had two different families tell us that they were skipping their own VBS, held the same week, because their kids liked ours so much better. I'm thinkin' those churches may need to work around our schedule next year!

Of course the reason for all this craziness is to reach others with the Gospel. We've had fourteen saved so far this week. One more day and then graduation tonight--can't wait to see what God can do.

Nicky dressed up like the Lone Ranger all week.

Paul and Joel's "Darryl and Darryl" skits were the hit of VBS.

I love how the whole church gets into helping, complete with costumes.

I'll do a wrap up later. Hope your week was as fun as mine!

Yeehaw, Cowboys!

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Kids got to exchange money at the bank for pennies for the penny offering.

Our crazy team leaders.

Playing a game.

Matthew directing the Rally Time. 

The human bowling pins. Another boy came running in and jumped into them. He was the "bowling ball".  Paul is at the top of the stack, and Luke is the middle row on the right.

Paul and Joel are a hit this week. They're doing a running gag where they're names are both Darryl, and they try to do stunts to get to play the games. They're natural hams. Wonder where they get that from?

In the first two days we've had twelve children accept Jesus Christ as their Saviour. Can't wait to see what God does today!

A Picture's Worth A Thousand Words

Sure hope that's still true. I've got lots of pictures, but very few words other than "I'm exhausted".

Here's our platform redecorated to become a general store in our western-themed Vacation Bible School. The kids memorize Bible verses in order to get the chance to play Let's Make A Deal, where they come up on stage and trade and choose prizes.

We had four children accept Christ yesterday. I'm still buzzing with excitement, and we've got four more days to go!

I hope to post more pictures throughout the week, but my camera battery died on me. I've got to get it charged before we head back this morning.

Happy Trails!