Vacation Bible School | Agency D3

June 16 – 20  |  8:30 am – 12:00 pm  |  Ages 3 through grade 6

Registration forms are available in the Green Ridge Welcome Center.

AgencyD3 VBSEveryone is excited about this year’s Vacation Bible School (VBS). As detectives, we will be DISCOVERING who Jesus is. We will DECIDE if we believe it and then we will DEFEND what we have learned. We will be CSI agents. The kids will be gathering information from the Bible stories and will analyze the evidence to come up with the conclusion that Jesus really is who he claimed to be. This Bible School will be great for the child who knows little or nothing about Jesus. And it will be fantastic for the child who already knows who Jesus is because they will be taking the faith of their parents and making it their own. They will believe what they believe because they have proven it to be true through their Bible studies.

We Still Need …

  1. We are in need of several more crafts helpers and one person to lead the class for the one and two year-old children belonging to our VBS workers. It is a fun class and the support teachers are in place but they need a leader.
  2. We are in need of large baby food jars with lids or small jars (about the size of baby food jars) with lids for VBS crafts. If you have some you would like to donate, please drop them off in the church office or with Greg.
  3. Do you have white or clear glue sitting around the house? Preschool crafts class needs lots of glue for VBS projects.
  4. Please save your egg cartons as well! We are going to use them as paint trays.
  5. Also, in need of at least 40 shoe boxes. Any condition would be greatly appreciated.

There will be bins in the Green Ridge Welcome Center for collection! All of our crafts are ready to go, we just need assistance with the children. Please contact Michelle Robertson, 391-9360, if you would be willing to help.

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FOCUSED

One of the casualties of aging to which I find myself a victim is the dimming of the eyes.  Ecclesiastes 12 counsels the young person to remember God, their Creator, in their youth before the aging process takes over and various faculties, as listed in verses 1-7, are diminished.

Clear eyesight when we are young may be something we take for granted. However, as we age the realization that our vision is not as sharp as it once was takes hold. “Readers” become standard fare for all intricate tasks. Our once keen laser sharp focus is now blurry and in need of help to restore its youthfulness. That restoration is found through glasses or some sort of rejuvenating surgery. Especially in the early stages of this degenerative eye problem we may be able to fake it and get by, but eventually we must relent and do something to correct the problem.

There is a parallel between physical and spiritual vision. “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus” was written in the early 20th century. The hymn writer, Helen Lemmel, was strongly influenced by the artist and later little-known missionary, Lilias Trotter. Miss Trotter started off as an aspiring artist but early on felt a call from God to reach the lost. She began her ministry by rescuing prostitutes from the streets of London. Later she went to Africa, without missionary funding, and served for over forty years. While there she penned a poem that would greatly influence the writing of the hymn “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus.”  The poem was entitled “Focused: A Story and Song.” 

The poem centers around focusing one’s attentions fully and completely upon God. She writes that Satan knows that if a person uses all their powers of concentration on being led by God’s Spirit, they will have a great intensity and impact upon those to whom they are called to minister. Lilias Trotter, writing in a more formal use of the English language than we are accustomed, shares some timeless insights which could very easily have been written today but with a different accent. She writes: “Never has it been so easy to live in half a dozen good harmless worlds at once—art, music, social science, games, motoring, the following of some profession, and so on. And between them we run the risk of drifting about, the ‘good’ hiding the ‘best’ even more effectually than it could be hidden downright frivolity with its smothered heartache at its own emptiness.”

The “good” hiding the “best” leads us to emptiness.  Could this be true of us today especially as American Christians? Have we sought the “good” while missing the “best”? The chorus of the hymn, which we will be singing in worship this Sunday, says it best.

                Turn your eyes upon Jesus, Look full in His wonderful face,                                                                                                                                        And the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace.

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