Skip to content

Vacation Bible School

You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:13

For Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. How, then, can they call on the One they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the One of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?  And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!” Romans 10:13-15

Jeremiah 29:13 is our key verse for this year’s Vacation Bible School beginning on June 6 and lasting for 5 powerful days. It says that God can be found if they search for Him.  Romans 10:14 says that they cannot seek One that they have never heard of and they cannot hear unless they are told. 

This is why we do Vacation Bible School. It’s not so we can fill our church with our church kids, which is great because so many of them ask Jesus to be their Savior during this time, but it’s to reach lost kids and their families.  

It is the responsibility of each one of us to bring our lost or seeking friends to church. I remember talking to Dr. Huff long before we found a Pastor. We were talking about church growth. He said, “You can get the best preacher in the world, but unless your members start bringing their friends and coworkers, you will not grow.” He said on numerous occasions that Eastern Hills Baptist Church was one of the best-kept secrets in Montgomery.

We are called to reach lost people in our communities. YOU are called to reach your neighbors, coworkers, and family. You are responsible for their soul. I am responsible for those who surround me. 

Our VBS theme is Digging to find the truth about God. Children will be using their Bibles to dig for facts about the Prophesies from Isaiah that were fulfilled in Jesus. They will be “visiting” actual archaeological sites that prove Jesus is who He said He was.

Unless we invite them, they will not hear and they will not be able to believe it. We have allowed Covid to interrupt the church. Not just our church but churches across America. Our people have found other things to do on Sunday. It’s time to reach our kids, families, and neighbors. It is time we make church the number one priority during the week and not just something we do with our leftover time. The prayer of our staff is that today, you will start praying for your family, friends, and coworkers to know Jesus this year. Maybe it will be through our Vacation Bible School. 

Save the Date! Vacation Bible School, June 6-10, 2022

Pastor Greg

Share this post

Related posts

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.

Keith Pate

God Leads Us

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not unto your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge…

God is Enough

Immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd.…