Ode to Vacation Bible School

(our grands are somewhere in the multitude)

"Place My words on your hearts. Get them deep inside you....Teach them to your children." (Deuteronomy 11:18-19 The Message)



Our amazing son-in-law - the children's director at their church - is overseeing 17 neighborhood VBXs (Vacation Bible Xperience) next week! May the Lord equip you, dear Stephen, with every good thing to do this important work set before you!

Yesterday, I came across a poem I penned 30 years ago as the old school VBS (Vacation Bible School) director at First Baptist Church, Bogalusa, La.

Ode to Vacation Bible School

They came from here

They came from there

They seemed to come from everywhere!

All little creatures, great and small

Some did walk and some did crawl.

Vacation Bible School had begun

With lots of work and loads of fun.

We worked and snacked and learned and played

And broke the things that we had made.

But to all the folks who worked untiring

We'd like to thank - you are inspiring!

To all the helpers and the teachers

Who just one week were mini preachers.

They gave their time and worked like elves

But best of all, they gave themselves.

To our father and our mother

To our sister and our brother

We thank our family for taking turns

Bringing us that we might learn.

Of course without us kids, you see,

Vacation Bible School would be

Simply books with empty pages

Or like a job that pays no wages.

This week, we have learned in love

Our thanks should go to God above.

To Him who harbors us in care

We want to offer up this prayer:

Thank You, Father, for blessings sweet

And for Thy care all through the week.

This summer, may the Lord bless all the workers and all the little children in all the Vacation Bible Schools in all the world. In the name of Jesus! Amen.