Vacation Bible School -- 2004
It's the big event of June! Northtown Vacation Bible School attracts over 200 people each night -- about half of them adults. It combines drama, singing, refreshments, play and sound Christian teaching for children aged 2 through the 6th grade.
An account of the 2003 VBS is also available here.
There is a standard formula, but a new theme every year (2004 featured a Mexican theme) and a host of variations and innovations. There is always "the Professor" and his time machine, a device for moving modern characters back in history and historical characters into the present. The Devil always pays a visit each night to tempt the children, but he is driven off with a Bible verse. A puppet show provides a moral lesson for the kids. In 2004 new characters included the Evangelator and Gospel Girl -- super heros who don't have super powers, but who serve a God that does.
Time to go inside for the beginning of VBS.
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Don Roberto and Doņa Penny preside over the proceedings.
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Yes, minister Keith Brumley has inherited the green wig, and is the Professor whose time machine keeps malfunctioning.
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There is Mexican dancing and of course the puppet show.
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Break time comes, and the kids have refreshments.
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Younger children break a piņada . . .
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. . . and gather around to get candy.
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Older kids chat with friends . . .
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. . . or play dodgeball, and then everyone goes back inside for a Biblical drama (below).
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