VBS - Monday - God Provides

Tonight God provided us with an abundance of children. We had a total of 76 kids in attendance, including 15 new additions to the safari. The theme tonight was "God Provides", and we learned how God makes sure we receive what we need.

In the continuing skit, Dr. Doolots was really overworked and tired after spending the night dealing with a giraffe with chicken pox, but God answered his prayers for what he needed when Terry and Jerry jumped at the chance to help him by delivering medicine to another sick giraffe at the acacia grove. We wonder if the group will ever get to see that blue cheeked bee eater!

After the opening, the classes studied the bible story of the multitude of people that came to see Jesus. When they became hungry and Jesus and the disciples needed to feed them, Jesus was able to use five loaves of bread and two fish to feed thousands. And they still collected twelve baskets of crumbs and leftovers afterwards. God Provides.


Recreation found the kids running a relay race to collect potatoes by answering bible verse questions correctly. There was quite a bit of searching, but an answer was always provided, and the kids had a lot of fun bringing them back in their baskets.

During craft time the kids learned that when we say "give us this day our daily bread" in the Lord's Prayer, we are asking God to provide us not simply with bread or food, but with all the things that we truly need. The crafty kids created refrigerator magnets by decorating a representation of a slice of bread, and they will keep them visible as reminders that if we ask, God will provide what we need.

The kids had a good time eating "Giraffe Spots" which looked and tasted a lot like cheese puffs. Some were encouraged to feed the alligators around the watering hole so that the alligators wouldn't get hungry and start thinking that the kids stopping there for a drink of water might look like dinner. Maybe those snacks are why there seem to be more alligators around every night!
Everyone learned a new song tonight, "Harambe", singing it through a couple times during small group music as well as "coming together" in song at the closing. The kids certainly followed the lyrics of the chorus tonight!

              Let’s get together, harambe.
              Let’s praise our Father, harambe.
              Let’s sing together, harambe.
              Let’s praise our loving God!