Babylon — Holy Land Adventure Vacation Bible School 2012
Kids, join your friends and travel back in time to ancient Babylon, the most exciting city in the world! While your are traveling you will meet Daniel — a boy torn from his childhood home and forced into the king’s service in Babylon. Join Daniel in facing the amazing struggles of growing up in a foreign city. You’ll learn how Daniel learned a new language, made new friends, faced unbelievable difficulties. You will explore exotic sights of Babylonian marketplace. Your nose will wrinkle from the smells in a Babylonian bazaar! You’ll learn how Daniel and his friends became leaders because they were so faithful and trustworthy. Most importantly, you’ll find how God helped them every day so that they would be stronger than their enemies and braver than their fears!
A note to the parents: We plan a sponsor a float in the Silverdale Whaling Days Parade to advertise the VBS, and then our VBS Program will run from Monday, July 30th through Friday, August 3rd.
We are actively recruiting for several positions. Volunteers in the VBS program must be members of Anchor of Hope Church or a neighboring church and must pass a background check.
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Acts 16 — 20The Spirit of God sometimes coaxes us in dreams and visions (Acts 2), empowers us with boldness (Acts 4) and Great Power (Acts 8) and then creates tender forgiveness and affections (Acts 11). The Spirit of God tugs and teases us onward like the desert wind. But… It’s sometimes true that the desert wind is a sandstorm, a grinding and relentless storm of opposition and resistance. Certainly, that was Paul and Silas’ experience as they blew into Greece and western Turkey near the year A.D. 50. From beatings to jailings, their lives were always at the mercy of the storm. Most of us, at one time or another, face an uphill and grinding challenge for a while. It could be work or family, sickness or regrets. It could be sin or simply the broken heart of a loving parent. Following the Spirit of God is no guarantee of smooth sailing with a following wind. Sometimes following the Spirit of God is a matter of hanging on faithfully as we complete our race. Don’t worry — you’ll make it to the end successfully.