Changing Children's Lives

Who would have ever thought that Vacation Bible School could transform a family… after all it is just for kids. Our church offers a free program for anyone who would like to attend three hours a day for one week during the summer, therefore the church is overflowing with children whose parents want to have a place for them to go.

While helping with registration for VBS at our church, we had a mom stop by the check in table and make the announcement that her family did not practice Christianity at home (well, that is the very reason that we open it up to anyone in the community who wants their child to attend, so yay!). The mother proceeded to tell us that she had grown up in a Christian home, but had gotten away from the church and that when she and her child went to church on Easter with her sister, she realized that her daughter knew nothing about Christianity when the child asked her mother why there was a “t” on the wall at the front of the sanctuary, which of course was the cross which hangs in most sanctuaries. The mother went on to tell us that after that happened, she had promised the child’s grandmother that she would enroll the child in a VBS program during the summer. Before leaving the registration table she remarked that it only took three hours to get her child hooked on Jesus--she had come home singing all of the songs about God and telling the lesson from the previous day and insisted upon going to church the next Sunday.

So I want to take this opportunity to thank all of the people who work in Vacation Bible Schools everywhere. You never know what kind of difference it will make in the lives of children, but also their families.

Luke 18:16 But Jesus called the children to him and said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

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