Today was another great day at VBS!  One of the best parts of VBS is the music.  When the children walk into the Sanctuary and hear the music playing, they can’t help but to sing along.  One of my favorite parts of the day was during the closing program.  You should have seen how the 4 year olds danced and sang to the music.  They kept jumping up and down with the joy of Jesus!   We’ve got the beat here at Redeemer!

Today was a very special day at VBS.  During crafts each child made a bag for a child who is in the Children’s Hospital here in Peoria.  The children watched a short video during the opening and actually got to see some of the children who will be receiving the bags.  Our goal was to make 300 of these bags for the hospital and we ended up with over 312!

The children decorated the outside of the bags- both sides.

The children filled the bags with a toothbrush, a travel-sized toothpaste, a mechanical pencil, chapstick, a sticker sheet, a notepad, a small box of crayons, and a bracelet.  Every child at VBS was given 2 bracelets- one for them to put in their bag and one for them to wear.

These yellow and black bracelets say “BEE-lievers in Christ.”

Our 5th and 6th graders got a special treat during snack time.  Their teacher created a dome for them to eat their snack in and to just hang out.   It was very cool (literally cool- she used fans to keep it inflated).

Check out the inside of our hive and see all of the food we’ve collected for the Food Pantry.

Our Honey for Haiti is getting pretty full as today alone we collected $158.10

And we celebrated 333 children hearing about how Jesus raised Jairus’ daughter from the dead (Mark 5:21-24, 35:43)!

What a bee-autiful day!

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