VBS: Weird Animals - July 27-31, 2014


Peace Lutheran's Vacation Bible School starts on Sunday night

Alex attends solo with Erin still at Ahma's until tomorrow

Large crowd attends the opening after a dinner of pasta

Ben leads the VBS for the last time, he's leaving in August

Alex's Gold group (6-7 year olds) heads off to their activities

They make a craft of a water creature, a jellyfish

The first Weird Animals dogtag is a creature called Axl the axolotl

Alex wears her Camp Hope shirt to VBS tonight

She enjoys playing games outside with the group

Look out for mosquitos when playing outside

Alex just outruns the pests while having fun

Evening closing held with all the age groups together

Today's lessons are reinforced with songs and activities

Even when you're left out . . . Jesus loves you!

Alex gets a water toy she plays with after getting home

Monday night's dinner is Sloppy Joes

David loves sloppy joes but the girls not at all

Erin is back home and makes her first appearance at VBS

Erin's Blue group (4-5 year olds) join the opening devotion

Alex's Gold group sits up front, right at the stage

Kids from all groups participate in the opening after dinner

Alex enjoys the opening singing and dancing

Erin does too in her first night at VBS

She remembers the songs sang at Camp Hope earlier in the month

Groups line up and depart to their rooms as the opening ends

Erin and Alex walk with their groups to their classrooms

The groups go to different rooms, each with their own planned activity

Alex listens to bible story in the upstairs adult classroom & library

Erin's group joins that activity next

Alex's class has moved onto the next activity station

Back outside for fun and games

Running with flippers on makes for an interesting game

Erin's group follows Alex's group outside for the games

Blue group back inside for lessons with Ben

Closing devotion on "Even though you're different . . . Jesus loves you!"

Erin wears her new glasses and takes it all in

Alex back with her Gold group on Tuesday night

The Brotherhood provides hotdogs and chips for tonight's dinner

Kevin & Shelly Fling treat David to BWW wings and trivia tonight

Alex's Gold group back on the front row right at the stage

Alex acquires a few boo boos tonight

But they just require a bandaid and then she is back into the action

The Gold group makes crafts with tonight's theme in mind

Alex digs in and gets supplies to start her project

Gold moves upstairs to the library for story time

Erin's Blue group comes for story time next after Gold

Gold has moved to activities in the entryway

Erin is ready to jump across the divide during Blue's turn

Ben reinforces the relation of the fun to today's lessons

All groups gather for the closing devotion

Tuesday's theme: "Even when you don't understand . . . Jesus loves you!"

Erin is back on Wednesday night for sandiches and chips

Both Alex and Erin skip the sandwiches and go straight to the chips

David sits with the Flings and eats plenty of sandwiches

Alex's Gold group is right up front for opening devotion

Tonight will be the girls last night at VBS

We are heading to Andy & Holly's beachhouse tomorrow night

Erin lines up with her Blue group, Alex with her Gold group

Alex walks with her group to the classroom activities

Her Gold group follows closely behind Erin and her Blue group

Erin upstairs in the library for lessons, Alex far right

Closing devotion on "Even though you do wrong . . . Jesus loves you!"

The girls are excited about that message and is great news to hear!

We really enjoy our week at vacation bible school

Girls get their last two dogtags on Wednesday night
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