God Is Wild About You!

Our church here in Hickory is wonderful! We love being a part of this faith family here. And this is part of the reason why. For Vacation Bible School this year, we placed it out of a local women's shelter in town, which is within walking distance of most of the public housing in town.

So we had Trinity kids and kids from the neighborhood participating together, and women from the shelter helping serve. It was awesome!

I got to serve at the registration table and with some of the advertising. Want to hear a funny story? The other gal in the picture is named Kelly. When we first started visiting Trinity, I thought, "Man, that girl looks familiar." We finally figured out that we went to the same youth group in Roswell together. She's a bit younger, so that's why we didn't make the connection from the get-go (plus we both have different last names now). Small world, right?

The little boy in the middle is Ahzion, and he was my buddy. For some reason, he clung to me whenever we were in a big group together, and all he wanted was tons of hugs and cuddles.

There's my big boy at his first VBS. They had a younger group for leader's kids. He seemed to really enjoy himself.

How incredible are the decorations? That was a really cool part of the experience, seeing my friends use their gifts and talents. I could never pull that off!

Here is another example. My friend Lee did the Bible story time, and she was amazing! It used all her gifts and talents: storytelling, creativity, conveying God's truths. She engaged all ages and had great activities to involve the kids in the story. (Josiah is on her left, pretending to be a tiger, as they acted out the days of creation. Lee is being light.)

Each day her room was transformed into part of the story: nothingness before creation, the belly of the whale, a mountaintop for Elijah's altar, a cave where disciples where hiding, and Hannah's living room.

Inside of the whale.