Vacation Bible School Wrap-Up 2011

What can I say this year that hasn’t already been said from years past? It was great, wonderful, awesome, fantastic, the best year ever? I’d say, it was all the above!

It was great because we had great curriculum with great volunteers teaching it. Great volunteers which where willing to cover each other when life got in the way of someone not being able to be there.

It was wonderful because we had such wonderful snacks! Wow! Every day was delicious!!

This year was awesome because we had such wonderful bible stories such as Jonah and the whale (a whale of a good time!). This year was fantastic because we had sunshine every day and lots of water to keep from getting too hot!

We had the best volunteers – jumping in and decorating the Saturday before we started VBS. What a great job all of you did with the kids; acting or teaching or guiding each student. I heard such good stories Friday night that came from the kids and their parents about what the kids said they learned. It’s wonderful to hear feedback about what we do – good or bad (it was all good!!!).

Some of the staff said this was the best year ever. The best year ever!! Wow. What can I say? You volunteers are the ones that made it happen. Someone said to me that I let God mold me. I just prayed and God did the work. He has molded each of his workers and teaches us while he is helping us teach others.

From the bottom of my heart, let God continue to teach and mold you for the next year and make it be the best year ever every year after.

A Farewell

Well it’s been one special year for Vacation Bible School. We always have a little drama to go with VBS every year. It’s Satan’s way of trying to bring us down. We have always prevailed though because we have Jesus on the winning team!  One year it rained and rained and rained but we just moved everything inside including the cookout and the animals! Another year when I was in very sick, Bud and Tony handled everything (we still won)! Last year we had a hole in the side of the Parish hall but we patched it and went on!

This year is the year to say goodbye. Phil and I are turning the reins over to someone else.My right hand man Bud Marecek is retiring as well. We all feel like it’s time for some new blood to take over and expand what we started. It’s been a joyful ride and we will miss all the wonderful faith-filled volunteers. I have a long list to thank but I can’t begin to list every single person because it would take the whole newsletter.

I always will remember each of you in my heart and prayers. You have done so much for us in your own special way.  Without you Vacation Bible School would have been nothing.  We needed every smile, every hand, every silly thing that was done, and of course every heart that you touched. You don’t realize all of the people you have touched and how God’s word spreads from what you started. I don’t think any of us realize what we are doing but sometimes we just feel it’s the right thing because we are asked by God to do his work.  Sometimes we say yes and sometimes we say no but God gets us involved like he did with Jonah (which was what we studied this last week at VBS!). 

Again to each and every one of you, thank you for working with me, pushing me to improve each year, and for loving me even with my faults.

I love you.

For the Glory of God.

Carolee Wylie

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