In July, we had our second VBS with Grace Community Chapel from New Jersey. This church is just amazing and always brings love, energy, and Jesus in an unmatched way! Check out what God did through them in just a few days here! We had around 400 kids in total and more than 150 volunteers/ workers!
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| This is what picking a team up of 48 people AND all their luggage AND all of the materials looks like! |
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| Feeding the team Saturday night! |
On Sunday, the team when to church, had lunch with the Children's Homes and then had a tour of the Abraham Project.
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| Lunch with Children's Homes |
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| Ending the tour and starting planning VBS |
Sunday night the team had an informational meeting with all the daycare workers and volunteers so we were all on the same page before DAY 1!
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| Ice Breaker activities |
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| Teachers, volunteers and team members |
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| The "green" team |
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| The "black" team |
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| Our team and volunteers |
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| After the ice breakers--the important information! |
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| Meeting new friends! |
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| All set for Day 1! |
Day 1-4
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| Start of Day 1! |
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| Getting started! |
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| Beginning of the day! |
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| We had volunteers from Hyatt Thrive |
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| Leyton got to participate in the activities! |
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| Worship! |
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| Balloon activities |
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| Taekwondo! |
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| Outside games-9 square |
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| Water games |
Day 2 included a little rain delay, but it didn't stop us for too long!
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| rain..... |
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| Afternoon worship! |
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| Leyton (and his goofy new smile) and his buddy from daycare! |
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We even had some special visitors stop by--The Police! They heard us and wanted to see what was happening! They stayed for several minutes listening to the worship and watching the kids dance!
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| Watching on in amazement! |
All the kiddos got to have their picture taken with Cooper the mascot of VBS!
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| 3-4 year olds! |
On Thursday, we had a Carnival Day with games and snacks and lots of SUGAR!
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| We had cotton candy! |
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| Mechanical bulls, games, trampolines |
At the end of day 4 worship, each class presented the team with thank you gifts and cards!
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| The 2-3 year olds giving their gifts |
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| At the end of the week, the kids wanted the team to sign their shirts! |
On Thursday night, we had a family night. This was the time the parents got to see what the kids learned all week, a wonderland presentations and lots of worship!
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| A full house! |
After the presentation, the families, kids, volunteers, workers were all treated to tamales and refreshments!
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| Serving up the tamales! |
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| A wrap up with the team and teachers and volunteers at the end of the night! |
On Friday, the team took the children's homes to a water park!
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| Enjoying the water! |
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| Our house parents got to enjoy the day as well! |
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| Fun for all! |
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| Getting wet! |
All in all the week was AMAZING--always stressful but always a good time. We love this church and how they pour everything they have into sharing the Word and the love of Jesus with our kids and the community kids!
Thanks GCC!
the crawfords
