I can remember way back when, when I was a kid, and that was a long time ago. I was always glad for summer vacation. No early morning rising, no sitting in classrooms all day and no home work. But I also remember about a week without those things I found myself, as many other kids did, saying, "I'm bored." However, the whole summer wasn't that way. Sometime during the summer we always went to Vacation Bible School. Things were a different then however, many of the Vacation Bible Schools were two weeks long. (I don't remember the last time I saw a two-week-long Vacation Bible School.) Another thing I remember was several years we attended several Vacation Bible Schools, one at our church and sometimes at churches in our neighborhood. These turned out to be the highlight of my summers. There were not as many VBS publishers back in those days so even when I attended multiple VBS's in a summer they were often the same lessons. But I didn't mind. It was something geared to me, my age, and the activities were always great.
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Years have come and gone, I'm not a kid anymore. I have graduated from the classes, I have been a teacher in several VBS's and have even been director of some. But I see the same kind of excitement on the faces of kids today that I experienced in my own life. There are many kids today whose summer highlight is still Vacation Bible School. It is my hope and prayer that publishers continue to produce quality material and that churches never become blinded to the good accomplished at VBS. It was during VBS that I memorized the 23rd Psalm, the Beatitudes, the books of the Bible (in order, both Old and New Testaments), the Lord's Prayer and the Love Chapter. Much of that I still stored in my memory today. Also I hope that parents, grandparents and neighbors will see the value of getting kids to VBS. Yeah, and it is still ok for them to attend more than one.
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