Look at the length of the registration line for VBS. Everyone has got to have a name tag. It took over an hour to get everyone "inside". It even rained a little and no one budged. The kids are really patient and polite.
This is another view of the main facility. Parents were required to stay out of the VBS activities. Some of the parents have been known to want to take over for the kids and we wanted the kids to do all of their own crafts. The parents respected this request and socialized around and in the kids normal classroom. Interesting turn of events...
We had over 200 kids in attendance for VBS. It lasted two plus hours for three days. It started with singing led by own own bilingual super teacher and skit by the local high school kids.
Then the kids were divided into eight groups based on their random name tag animal/color combination. Each group did four activities each day, three crafts and a snack station. The kids stood around tables to do the crafts and shared supplies. Julianna has been blessed with years of craft training and had only a small amount of difficulty understanding the instructions in Spanish.
The theme of the week was " Firmes en Cristo" from Primero Corinthios 16:13.- Again, I was paying attention.
Julianna actually adopted a small girl each day and tried to assist them with their crafts. She did find time to create a nice puppet for herself.
The girl in this picture is Reyna. Two years ago when I came to Nicaragua, as I was packing, Julianna on her own accord brought me a picture of herself, a piece of candy and a small stuffed animal. She gave me the instructions to find a little girl her age and give her the toy and candy and show her the picture so they could be friends. This is that girl I chose two years ago. It really made me happy to see them get together.
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Okay, so the story of Reyna brought tears to my eyes. How very cool!
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