VBS- Weird Animals

The kids started their second VBS last week.  It is one of the ones we did last summer as well.  It's just up the street from us a mile and a half at Fort Hill United Methodist Church.  It started Monday July 7 and went through Friday July 11.  There was also a VBS celebration Sunday the 13th.

The church served the whole family supper from 5-6, before VBS started at 6 and went until 8:30-- but as is typical it ran over a bit.  My favorite part about this VBS is all their missions projects.  They don't come home each night with a craft/project, instead that typical part of a VBS budget is put towards a missions project.  The 5 projects for this year are listed below by each day ( but in no particular order b/c I don't know what they did on what day).

Monday: We were served deli sandwiches, fruit,  and a bag of chips and a cookie

Day 1 both kidlets

The main mission was heifer international.  All week we collected money to purchase animals for 3rd world countries.  As of close on Friday they had raised $276, enough to buy a pig and a llama.


Tuesday: We were served fried chicken, mac and cheese, fruit and veggies w/ ranch and a cookie

Tonight they decorated cookies for Parkview Mission.  They have a free supper on Wednesday nights for those in need of a hot meal, and part of their meal was a cookie from the VBS kids.

I brilliantly lost my key at VBS so walked home, and then back to VBS at pick up time.
Unfortunately Jayna was deeply offended this day when she was chatting with a boy in the group and not just some other kids but even the leader agreed that the little boy was her boyfriend.  She refused to go back.  So she went to her cousin's house on Wednesday after we went to the pool all together.

Wednesday: We were served either PBJ or deli sandwiches fruit, chips, cookie

The kids made a total of 93 I think Butterfly Hugs for cancer patients

Thursday: We skipped the supper, but I saw they had spaghetti (with meat so neither of us would have eaten it anyways) salad chips and cookie

The mission project was the Lynchburg Humane Society where they collected pet supplies and used towels and blankets all week.  They even got to meet this fellow (and one other too)

Friday: We skipped the meal again, but it was pizza, salad, fruit and cookie

The final missions project was for United Methodist Family Services: a care package for children entering the foster care program.

 Selfies on the church playground just before VBS started showing off the newer shorter hair do

Mo the Mole gave him a great hair scalping, 

if you notice the difference from "Monday"

It's Over!... for us, b/c we didn't attend the Sunday festivities

As silly as it may sound, all week ever since I walked on Tuesday, Anthony has wanted to walk home from VBS.  So on Friday, we did!  We walked the mile and a half home in just about 20 minutes-- most of it barefoot because we like to!  It was nearly dark by the time we got home!