Vacation Bible Camp - Day 3

Another fantastic day at St Thomas Vacation Bible Camp!  Today was a bit different from our other VBC days because we had a church service with Holy Communion.  The youth Story-tellers told the story of John the Baptizer baptizing Jesus in the river Jordan.  John was kind of a wild man (you should have seen the “camel skin” clothes and the unruly beard!) who lived in the wilderness, making his meals of honey and wild locusts.  And yes, it’s true, people still do eat wild locusts – but they are mostly poor people.  John the Baptizer was God’s representative of the marginalized people of the world, the people Jesus often sought out and spent a lot of time with. Was John ever surprised when Jesus asked to be baptized by him!  John’s response was probably much like you and I would respond… “What??? You want ME to baptize YOU?”  Seems backwards, doesn’t it?  But the story shows us that we are all the same in God’s eyes, and every single one of us precious to God.  The story shows us how baptism brings us all together and makes us into the Body of Christ in the world even today.
 

We did something very special to make the world a better place today, by making sack lunches for the children participating in the Salvation Army Summer Day Camp.  The littlest ones decorated the lunch bags and the older children made sandwiches, packed fruit and chips and helped to make everything ready for delivery to the Salvation Army.   We continue to collect food for Bellevue’s Renewal Food Bank and to sell stainless steel MiiR water bottles, which support clean water projects all over the world.

We are delighted to be sharing this time with your children… they are surely a blessing to us!  Many thanks and blessings to you and yours, Karen Haig †