Scenery for our upcoming Vacation Bible School is taking shape in fellowship hall.  T minus 12 days and counting.  A bayou backdrop, a shack (but not ‘the shack’) and a dock have appeared, the creations of gifted artists in the congregation.  Crocodiles and a boat are on the way, I’m told.  All for Crocodile Dock, this year’s VBS curriculum from Group publishing.

Here’s a close-up on the trees:

A hundred children from three churches will descend on our fellowship hall for an opening time of singing and then disperse for Bible teaching, games, videos, crafts and snacks. I’ll lead the Bible time for the older children, four lessons from Exodus and one from Matthew. The whole effort benefits from the labors of dozens of youth and adult volunteers, with overall leadership from two phenomenal women who love children.

All these children in church make for a measure of chaos during the five days of VBS.  It’s like an unstable uranium atom.  I know now how Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb, must have felt in the New Mexico desert day after day waiting for the big boom.  Fortunately, though, we’ve had no explosions yet.  Only lots of fun.  And life-changing learning.  Honestly, I must learn as much as the kids do from these Bible stories.

ADDED:  Final version of the Crocodile Dock set.