Ecclesiastes 12:1 Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, “I find no pleasure in them.”
I think that’s why it’s so much fun to work with kids. We do get to the place where life is boring as adults, don’t we? That’s why VBS is so cool here. I think the adults have as much fun as the kids do.
But this is a great scripture for thinking about all the work we’ve done here. We are told to “remember our Creator in our youth.”
We are commanded to “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.” Proverbs 22:6
And “Assemble the people—men, women and children, and the aliens living in your towns—so they can listen and learn to fear the Lord your God and follow carefully all the words of this law.” Deuteronomy 31:2
One of the things I really love is the amount of men we have working VBS. That’s one of the reasons we have it at night so we can get people who work during the day involved. Which gets us more men hanging out.
Ephesians 6:4 - Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
I love seeing the guys dancing and singing and teaching and leading and showing the kids that they are excited about Jesus too.
I tell you, Monday night I went up to the balcony and hung out with the parents for a little while and just watched the sea of blue shirts praising God all over the place and I don’t think I’ve ever been more proud of PCC. It’s just amazing to see 722 kids (with 170 more junior highers in the gym) and 479 adult helpers - all of whom are way too tired by this point in the evening – having a blast worshiping Jesus.
Thank you to all of you who worked so hard. To Lori, Jenn Otto, and Dawn Cox and the crew who work on this year round, and to all of the volunteers who cooked or taught or did something to love on these kids this week. They are “remembering their Creator in their youth,” and hopefully “when they are old they will not depart from it” (even if they do get boring).
Kids are the Kingdom,
Tim
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