I heart VBS

I love VBS for many reasons, one being that I believe it's the best week in the life of the church family. More people get out of their comfort zone and have the BEST time doing it than at any other time of the year. I volunteered this year to be the director for our church. It looks like this will be the last year we don't have someone on staff who will be leading.  Last year we organized it by committee but I've had my hand out of service in a big way for a few years and I knew that it was something I needed to do this year.

It's been hard. Not because of the work, because I've been working on it little by little since March. It's been hard because it's so easy to be disappointed with church members who don't "get" that they will be hugely blessed by giving up time and energy for God's work. VBS is just one of the many many ways people can serve, I know that. However, it's one of the easiest. Even if you don't want to work directly with children (which is just crazy talk). There's just too much to do...cutting 300 hands, painting a cardboard castle, helping buy the snacks to feed over 300 each day, inviting neighbors, making thousands of copies of all kinds of paperwork, acting out the part of Esther on Tuesday, leading the music, collecting the offering.... I often have to stop in the middle of working on things and pray that no one will bail out without telling me and that we will have the right amount of people to handle the typical 300 kids we have for the week. I will also continue to pray for 4 more adult leaders to help with sweet preschool children and for those who are volunteering to be blessed beyond what they can handle.

Next week...an unheard of 5 DAYS alone! Richard is going to his annual company meeting, Lauren and Erin are going to Falls Creek Camp, and Sheridan is going to her first week at Camp Siloam! Ryan is in the Dominican Republic until June 28. Monday-Friday...by myself, working on VBS of course.