Recently we had a team of people come from the US and Australia to hold a 2 week long Vacation Bible School for our kids while we attended our biennial PNG branch conference (translated that means the parents were in all day meetings for 2 weeks and we needed people to look after our kids). We were so thankful for these wonderful people who came to help in this way. The kids had a blast doing all sorts of games, songs, activities, crafts, etc.
Doing a Vacation Bible School for a large group of missionary kids is an interesting experience, I'm sure. The typical commercially produced VBS curriculum doesn't work so well with a group like this who often know the Bible stories as well (or sometimes even better) than their VBS leaders. We heard many times from the teachers how smart and well versed the kids here are in their knowledge of the Bible. As you can imagine, the leaders had to use some creativity to keep this group of MKs interested and engaged... they did a great job! As we spoke to the kids teachers we heard some great stories of things they did together and the fun they had.
I had to share one such story with you all....
The grade 6 girls were playing a game of Apples to Apples. Their leader (a really fun college aged young lady) knew that these missionary kids may not "get" some of the things on the cards (this game is heavily tied to US culture). She told the girls, If you don't know the thing on the card, just put it back and take another. This lead to quite a lot of cards being turned back in. Finally, after trading in several cards, one of the girls turned over a card that read "Abba" (it was referring to the popular music group, Abba). The girl excitedly said, "Oh, I know this one! It's another name for God!"
And there you have it folks...out of the mouths of MKs
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