06/24/2026
Day two of Rainforest Falls VBS was wet like a rainforest! Our intrepid volunteer umbrella brigade waited to meet the campers and es**rt them inside dry and comfortable!
Very appropriately, our Bible Buddy was Seymour, the glass frog. Seymour is transparent, to symbolize today's Bible point: God knows everything! Wow God!
Knowledge, or lack of it, was the theme of the hilarious opening skit, featuring the return of Dr. Flutterby. She brandished a cheeseburger, hoping to lure the rare meat-eating butterfly into the open. But when her head was turned - a bite was taken out of the cheeseburger! Dr. Flutterby looked around for the rare butterfly, but it was not to be found - so the bite out of the cheeseburger was a mystery! God knows who made it - and so will you, if you examine the photographs carefully!
Our Bible verse was from Psalm 1:39 "Oh Lord, you have examined my heart and know everything about me." In Sticky Scriptures, we considered what it meant to "examine" something. To look at the ocean is one thing; to examine it can mean studying the sea creatures that live under the water.
Our science project in Imagination Station also made this point in a cool way about forests. We were given a piece of paper with pictures of big trees - the first thing you notice about a forest. But when we rubbed them with a wet cotton swab, we could see more things that live in the forest: colorful moths, spider webs, moss and other things.
Our Bible Adventure today was to learn about David, who wrote many of the Psalms. We read Psalm 139:14, where David says "I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; you works are wonderfl, I know that full well." Pastor Dave showed us a few examples of the intricacy and uniqueness of our bodies. We made fingerprints with paint - each one unique, with the billions of people on earth. Then we stood in a circle and squeezed the hand of the person next to us. Each squeeze travels from the nerves in our hands and arm up to our brain, which then relays the message to the other arm to sqeeze the hand of the next person. Wow God!
In creation crafts, we made a model rain stick, a percussion instrument from Central and South America. Appropriately for today, it makes a sound like rain when shaken! We had a lot of fun with colorful decorations.
Our Treetop treat was Silly Face cookies, hand decorated by Ms. Karen and Levi! We gave our cookies silly names too. And the rain did NOT dampen our energy! We enjoyed music and movement videos with Ms. Elena! And Wild Games were moved indoors - but we had fun with crazy tag and rolling balls on the tarp!
Our mission project this year, in partnership with World Vision, is purchasing fruit trees for families in Central America, for food and a source of income. Nine dollars purchases one tree. We put pompoms on our tree to symbolize the $166 donated so far, which will purchase 17 trees!
What will we learn tomorrow?
Many thanks to all our voluntees, many of whom are in the background of these photos, always looking out for the kids!
