Galactic Voyage

Last week was VBS at our church.  It was a fun and exhausting 4 days.  This was our gang ready to head out at about 4 in the afternoon on the second night.  All the volunteers (about 300!) and their families could meet at the church for dinner at 4:30.  By 5:30 everyone was getting ready for the kids to arrive for VBS to start at 6.  Not once all week did we get home before 9.  And I know the first night they weren't in bed before 10.  But they loved it and we loved getting to see them and all the other kids enjoy such a fun week focusing on how big our God is.

The theme was Star Wars-ish, which thrilled Silas and Simeon beyond words.  They are very into Star Wars because of a couple Angry Birds Star Wars things they play and we just got a Star Wars tag book they love.  So even though they haven't a clue about the movies, they know lots of the character's names.  It was super fun that since our VBS wasn't at the ranch this year like it has been in the past (this is the fist summer for our church in the new building), the theme kept Silas from being too disappointed about the change in location.

Little VBSers having dinner with friends on the church patio...

I didn't get to take pictures of our kids during VBS because Shane and I were helping with the 3rd grade group.  But thankfully our friend Micah, who was the photographer all week caught a few of them in action...

There's Simeon on the far left turned sideways and Silas on the far right in red with their preschool class.  I was so glad they let the 3 year olds join in all the activity with the big kids.  This was the first night and the game they played was supposed to actually be like Angry Birds.  They threw balls at a tall pile of boxes.  You can imagine the joy in those 2 boy's hearts.  They talked about it all week.

About to leave home and head to church on the last night.  Tiredness had turned a little silly by this point...

The preschool class didn't come back in for the final worship session every night so we went to get our kids a little early from their room so they could join in.  So fun to have everyone worshipping together...

This is a slideshow of pictures they had running on other screens during the recap video (which is below).  There are a couple pictures of our kids in it...

Galactic Voyage VBS Recap Video from Harvest Bible Chapel Peoria

We are so thankful to have gotten to be part of what God is doing in the lives of children at our church. So while Shane and I agree that we know children's ministry is not our calling, I can't help but thoroughly enjoy watching children as young as 3 worship and sing and play and learn.  It was a great week and Silas is already asking when VBS is coming again.