VBS

“Let my people go!” I must have heard that about 40 times from more than 100 kids on Tuesday morning. Our church hosted its annual VBS this week and I had the opportunity to play the part of Pharaoh. Since we wanted to make it as authentic as possible (we wanted to give Yul Brynner a run for his money) I wore the Pharaoh hat, the Pharaoh clothes (and it’s not a skirt or a dress) and the Pharaoh ‘guyliner’.

My role during VBS was actually very small, since it only required my time on Tuesday morning. As the director of the preschool portion of VBS, Cari had a very active role during the week. She and the kids were out the door by 8:00 am every morning to get ready for the kids that were coming to participate in VBS.

It just wouldn’t be a good VBS without a challenge for the kids to raise money, and for the leaders to do something a little crazy when the goal was met (when I was a kid it was always someone getting a pie in the face). With VBS being set in a southern bayou, the crazy thing was to eat alligator meat if the kids met their goal. The kids surpassed their goal and Cari was one of the ‘lucky’ ones that got to eat alligator meat. I find it funny that she said, “it actually tasted like chicken”. For those on Facebook you should be able to find a video of her eating the alligator meat.

Chris

“So it is written, so it is done.”-Yul Brynner as Rameses in Cecil DeMille’s The Ten Commandments
That’s such a great line.