Last Monday morning, after weeks of preparation, the time had finally come; it was the start of Vacation Bible School! With music playing in the background and the bubble maker blowing bubbles, I eagerly waited to greet all the children to their first day of VBS. This was my first VBS as Minister to Children and all my expectations were blown away. The 150 children and 80+ volunteers had a fabulous week learning how we can be heroes for God by reaching out to people in our own communities.
All of the children and volunteers that attended VBS were my heroes for participating in our weekly offering. One Wednesday night at Quest this past winter, our children learned about the disease Malaria killing thousands of children each year. The children learned that a simple mosquito net could prevent all of these deaths. Their passion ignited people in our church to host a World Malaria Day Event back in April to raise money for mosquito nets. Through the children's passion to raise money to buy mosquito nets, I decided that our VBS offering should go to purchasing mosquito nets as well. My goal for the week was to raise $500. After an intense competition between the boys and the girls, on the last day of VBS the children raised a total of $1,528 which will purchase 254 nets through an organization called His Nets (www.hisnets.org)!!! I'm so proud of all the children that attended VBS last week and I'm already looking forward to next year!
Enjoy this video documenting the fun times had at the MFBC VBS 2010
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