Welcome
to vacation Bible school planning 2007. Allow me to introduce
our Congregational Ministries Publishing offerings. You will
find some old friends and a new acquaintance, each one an opportunity
for a faithful and rewarding week of VBS.
First, let us introduce the new acquaintance: Great Bible
Reef, the first offering in a new partnership between Augsburg
Fortress publishers and Congregational Ministries Publishing.
Great Bible Reef is Bible story-based and uses an interactive
combination of music, art, snacks, games, worship, drama, and
science activities to teach children faith basics. The Starter
Kit, Director Guide, and Director Guide CD-Rom have been reviewed
with an eye toward essential aspects of Reformed identity and
are all PC(USA)-specific publications.
These old friends are still available: Around the World in
5 Days: God Calls Us; Around the World in 5 Days: Living As
Forgiven Children of God; and Around the World in 5 Days: A
Visit to the U.S.A. are PC(USA) mission-based VBS experiences
that introduce children to PC(USA) mission around the world.
Through the use of Bible study, music, crafts, games, and snack
stations, children learn something about what it’s like
to live in another country or another part of the United States.
They hear stories about the lives of mission workers and consider
God’s call for their own lives.
Around the World in 5 Days: God Calls Us uses an airplane
motif to take children to the Philippines, Guatemala, Malawi,
Pakistan, and Peru.
Around the World in 5 Days: Living As Forgiven Children of God
uses a train motif to take children to Taiwan, Northern Ireland,
Brazil, Zimbabwe, and Nepal.
Around the World in 5 Days: A Visit to the U.S.A. uses a boat
motif to take children around the United States to Pasadena
Presbyterian Church in Pasadena, California; to Cedarkirk, a
Presbyterian camp of the Tampa Bay and Peace River presbyteries
of Florida; to the Presbytery of the Yukon in Alaska; to Crescent
Hill Presbyterian Church in Louisville, Kentucky; and to the
Midwest Hamni Presbytery of Chicago, where they consider what
it means to be mission-minded children of God.
Dive into a great week of vacation Bible school 2007! |
