Community Corner
Jungle Themed Vacation Bible School at Faith Lutheran Church Deemed Successful
The overflowing parking lot was the first indication that something big was going on at Faith.
The last day of Vacation Bible School on Saturday, June 17, at Faith Lutheran Church at 6101 Telegraph Road, was “water day.” Participants—230 volunteers and 481 kids—dressed in bright green camp shirts, were enjoying the many jungle themed activities on the back parking lot before they moved into the building for the grand finale.
One of the most popular activities was a team effort to fill a bucket of water in which sponges soaked with water, squeezed were passed on to the next teammate. The team with the most water in their bucket was the winner. No one seemed to care about who was winning only the fun of the race mattered.
Vacation Bible School director Dawn Novak said, “I’m just celebrating that we have so many wonderful volunteers and that we were able to reach so many kids. We taught a different Bible story each of the five days and our theme this summer was 2 Timothy 4:18.”
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Ominous clouds were gathering just as the indoor ceremony was to begin. The groups of children filed into the great room to the sounds of an upbeat band and took their places for the presentation. Hundreds of parents, siblings and friends soon joined them in the audience.
Soon sing along music was replaced by a few skits performed by teen camp counselors and the jittery audience quickly settled down for the show. The highlight of the ceremony was the presentation of a check for $5980.44 made out to the Jefferson County Habitat for Humanity that the children had collected over the course of their five-day vacation Bible school. The fund, dubbed “The Pastor Tim Project” after Pastor Tim Baur was a boon to the house project.
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Accepting the donation for Habitat for Humanity was Joanne Chamberlain who said, “This generous donation from the children is beyond what I could have imagined. I am looking forward to the project and to meeting more of the parishioners.”
Tom Elliott, a Habit for Humanity volunteer, said that the building of the house would begin on June 25 on the front parking lot of Faith.
“Later we will move the construction to Crystal City where the house will become home to an extended family of six people,” said Elliott.
As a violent thunderstorm raged outside, all was safe and serene inside the walls of Faith Lutheran Church where charity was a reality.