Comments on: VBS…remember when http://kylemeadors.com/2007/06/07/vbsremember-when/ Kyle Meadors - The Man The Myth Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:27:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Kyle http://kylemeadors.com/2007/06/07/vbsremember-when/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Kyle Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:21:49 +0000 http://kylemeadors.com/2007/06/07/vbsremember-when/#comment-31 I would love to have to gone to one of Granddaddy's VBS's. I am sure his crafts would have been better than the ones I had at Harmony. I would love to have to gone to one of Granddaddy’s VBS’s. I am sure his crafts would have been better than the ones I had at Harmony.

]]> By: Daddy http://kylemeadors.com/2007/06/07/vbsremember-when/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Daddy Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:17:27 +0000 http://kylemeadors.com/2007/06/07/vbsremember-when/#comment-29 I truly feel sorry for someone who grows up and never has a VBS memory! My Daddy, being the church minister, was always the principal. I remember when we were at Harmony and the pastor was not the principal of the Bible School. I was sort of stunned at that, as I thought the preacher was always the principal! My Daddy had to be one of the best Principals or Directors ever. He seemed to really like VBS and he worked hard to make it good, especially the crafts. You mentioned some of them being corny, and I suppose they were, but some of my memories of VBS are of my Daddy spending many days in the basement of the church pouring plaster of paris into molds making Indian heads and other neat figures which we later painted. Daddy always painted one too and his turned out so nice, I remember. We also did things like painting on glass to copy pictures from coloring books. Then we framed them with frames he had made and which we got to stain. I have never seen anyone do crafts, especially for the older children, as well as my Daddy. Of course, he had lots of practice. When he was an associational missionary in Harlan County I think he did many Bible Schools at small churches, several in one summer and often more than one in a day, with my mother hauling us 5 children around in a Jeep over mountain roads and into towns no bigger than a crossroads. Daddy also took a lot of delight in the opening and I remember the children begging to be the one to carry the flag or the Bible. He teased with them a lot and would always remember the next day who he had promised the day before. So, I kind of feel sorry for children who attend very large churches for Bible School because, while it is still very exciting and neat, they don't have some of the interaction and the marching and such as smaller churches can. Yes, I remember many things about Bible School. The clearest memories are of the marching, the "sit down/stand up" of the piano, the crafts, and the ending picnic. I don't have a clear memory of the Bible story time, but I am certain it impacted me. You are certainly correct when you say that Bible School is possibly the greatest outreach ministry available to our churches, especially when compared just in terms of impact during the time of its presentation. It is a powerful and influential week in the lives of children. Daddy I truly feel sorry for someone who grows up and never has a VBS memory! My Daddy, being the church minister, was always the principal. I remember when we were at Harmony and the pastor was not the principal of the Bible School. I was sort of stunned at that, as I thought the preacher was always the principal! My Daddy had to be one of the best Principals or Directors ever. He seemed to really like VBS and he worked hard to make it good, especially the crafts. You mentioned some of them being corny, and I suppose they were, but some of my memories of VBS are of my Daddy spending many days in the basement of the church pouring plaster of paris into molds making Indian heads and other neat figures which we later painted. Daddy always painted one too and his turned out so nice, I remember. We also did things like painting on glass to copy pictures from coloring books. Then we framed them with frames he had made and which we got to stain. I have never seen anyone do crafts, especially for the older children, as well as my Daddy. Of course, he had lots of practice. When he was an associational missionary in Harlan County I think he did many Bible Schools at small churches, several in one summer and often more than one in a day, with my mother hauling us 5 children around in a Jeep over mountain roads and into towns no bigger than a crossroads. Daddy also took a lot of delight in the opening and I remember the children begging to be the one to carry the flag or the Bible. He teased with them a lot and would always remember the next day who he had promised the day before. So, I kind of feel sorry for children who attend very large churches for Bible School because, while it is still very exciting and neat, they don’t have some of the interaction and the marching and such as smaller churches can.
Yes, I remember many things about Bible School. The clearest memories are of the marching, the “sit down/stand up” of the piano, the crafts, and the ending picnic. I don’t have a clear memory of the Bible story time, but I am certain it impacted me. You are certainly correct when you say that Bible School is possibly the greatest outreach ministry available to our churches, especially when compared just in terms of impact during the time of its presentation. It is a powerful and influential week in the lives of children.

Daddy

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