VBS Tuesday - Get God's Love!

Tonight the sanctuary filled up with 90 kids, including 11 new rainforest adventurers. Our challenge tonight was to Get God's Love! Sean again arrived to take us back in time to show what happened to him and Professor Hinkley after they were trapped on the wrong side of the rising river and couldn't get back. The helicopter didn't see them, and the boat of party people just waved and sailed on. But who should stop but the feared River Woman. Although she did have a friendly snake, Sugar, she had no caymans or piranhas. Instead, she turned out to be pretty nice, and offered our two friends a ride back to the outpost in her boat.

In class we talked about Jesus' parable of the good Samaritan (Luke 20:25-37). It was pretty easy to tell that this story was just like what happened to Sean and his group in the skit. In Jesus story, many people passed the injured man by, offering no help. But the least likely traveler, a Samaritan, stopped to help the man. To help remember the story, we learned a Bible verse:

Love the Lord....Love your Neighbor.
- Matthew 22:37-39

There was no rain so we got to go outside today, and practiced the Good Samaritan story in our groups. One of us acted the part of the injured traveler, and the rest of us offered him a drink of water, bandaged his wounds, stayed and talked with him, and then carried him along the road to the nearest hotel. Acting out the story should help us remember that we should be ready to help a neighbor any time.

In crafts, we created pretty dragonflies from wooden clothespins, spoons and some beads. Even dragonflies can be good neighbors, they eat lots of mosquitoes.