Well, turn out was way up last night, with our crowd of kids more than tripling. While this was more like what we expected in terms of numbers, it did create a few logistical challenges that we didn't have to face on the 1st night. We planned events that kids and parents could do together, but even though we had lots of extra kids, we only had one extra parent. This made our family activity a bit chaotic to say the least!
We also got to do what was perhaps my favorite skit of the week, with the invisible spiders, and Petunia having to learn to keep her eyes on the professor to avoid panic. It mirrored our Bible story of Peter walking on water, and his need to keep his eyes on Jesus. When he got distracted by the difficult circumstances around him, he started to sink. When we get distracted by difficult circumstances it is easy to loose our connection to the very thing we need most, God's power.
I find it more than a bit interesting that so far the events of our VBS have mirrored the lessons we are trying to teach. Last night's infusion of a large number of energetic older kids made it difficult to focus on what we were trying to teach. It would have been easy to focus on the clock, or just getting through the night, rather than focusing on the lesson we wanted the kids to learn. It certainly served as a good reminder to me that "I need to keep depending on God's power".
I don't know about you, but I think that it is pretty cool that God is using the circumstances of each night of VBS to reinforce to us the lessons that we are trying to teach!
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