We had another thrilling day for Day 4 of the Great Jungle Journey! If you couldn’t make it today, we still have ONE more day of adventure planned.
Today, we stopped at our fourth and fifth ports of call – Christ and the Cross! We learned about how God sent his one and only Son to die for our sins. The kids met our animal pal for the day, Rose the pink river dolphin, who reminds us of how Jesus died and rose from the grave. Today’s verse was John 1:12 – “But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.” There is lots of great information at https://answersvbs.com/junglekids if you’d like to continue this discussion with your kids at home.
In Missions, the children learned about Layla from Zambia who suffers from extreme hunger. We urge the children to pray for children like Layla to get the nutrients their bodies need to grow healthy and strong! Throughout this week, we have taken up an offering to benefit the Children’s Hunger Fund that provides meals to families like Layla’s. Just one quarter provides one meal! Today, the boys raised $18.92 and the girls raised $13.00!
Reminders to parents: TOMORROW will be Jungle Journey day! Come dressed for a jungle cruise!
Memory Verses! Each child received a packet of verses because during VBS week, the children are encouraged to hide God’s Word in their hearts by memorizing any verse of the Bible (not just the ones we sent home – ANY). They’ll be rewarded with a treat at the end of the week if they say any verse to the ladies at the Verse Table. The two students in each class that say the most verses will get to “pie” the VBS worker of their choice at the end of the day tomorrow.
VBS Family Night is TOMORROW at 6:00 PM and we hope everyone will come out to see what these children have been learning and working on this week! If your children want to practice the motions for the songs they are learning at home, today’s song was “You Made a Way” and there is a playlist on the AnswersVBS YouTube channel with all of the hand motions: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoUPcl51kZGHCaUxE0ntNYK8DHnjlNnqs
Again, we want to thank everyone who donated items that we needed, as well as their time and effort to make this VBS a truly GREAT Jungle Journey and share God’s Word with this wonderful group of kids. We also want to thank all the parents who trusted us with their sweet children this week!
See you tomorrow for Day 5 when we will stop at our last port of call … Consumation!
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