First Day of VBS

Bonswa! We're all back at the mainhouse after finishing our first day of VBS. It went very well. The kids were excited before we even got in the gate at the toddler house. They we shouting 'good news' while we waited to go in, which is their name for the VBS. We began with my mom telling the story of the lost sheep, using sheep masks and noise makers which were a huge hit. We even lost one of our 'sheep' but no worries, the shepherd found him =]. After the story, Kelsey lead the group in songs, which again was another big hit. These kids are very passinate about everything they do, and love to sing and do motions. After singing we split into two groups, red and blue, one group going to snank and the other going to crafts, which was me and Emily K. For snack they made their own sheep out of marshmellows and pretzels. Over by us, doing the crafts, we made cut-out hand sheep. The kids enjoyed glueing cottonballs onto the cutout hands. They loved it! even if some of them couldn't figure out which finger to draw a face on ;). Julie and Sarah lead the small group game, which today was memory. The kids went to that once they finished their snack or craft. Once everyone was done we all regrouped again to sing. Then we played our own version of duck duck goose, which was my personal favorite. "mouton, mouton, beje" (sheep, sheep, shepherd). Even the nannies were getting into it. It was a hoot! Once VBS was finished, we just got to enjoy hanging out with the kids.

Thank you all for your prayers, we can feel them surrounding us. We all send our greeting, Take care! --Tori