Our church is using Hero Headquarters from Standard Publishing for our VBS theme this year. It is a GREAT program in which kids learn about the unsung heroes of the Bible who did something simple that made a HUGE impact! It helps kids understand they can be heroes to the people around them by doing the simple things instead of chasing after the big things. It's a very powerful theme and the kids are having a BLAST!
I feel like God is trying to teach me a few lessons through VBS this year. Last night (Monday) was our first night of VBS. We had quite a few glitches going into our first night. Some volunteers showed up late, the computer didn't work right so we had to switch to my laptop, some communication gaps, registration had an unbelievably long line and we ended up surpassing the number of kids we expected. To top it all off, we started our program 30 minutes late. I was ready to pull my hair out because as I was trying to solve one problem three different people came up to me with other problems to address, and I couldn't think straight. To be completely honest, I felt like a failure and just wanted to crawl into a hole and forget about the whole thing. Everyone else had a great attitude, and once I had time to gather my thoughts I checked on the schedule to see how bad of shape we were in. By the time the third activity of the night started we were running right on schedule, and everything was running smoothly!
I think this experience was God teaching me to trust Him to take care of everything. VBS is His thing, not my thing. I may coordinate the volunteers and supplies, but He's the one who works in the hearts and lives of the teens and adults serving and the children attending. He's reminding me that He goes to work when (and before) things are "out of my hands" and out of my control. All I can say is God is Good!
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