Every year they call me to accompany the kids at Vacation Bible School and teach them and I have always been pre-occupied. This year for a change I decided to make myself free and a good decision it was.
As kids we were sent to our native village for Vacation Bible School (VBS). It was supposed to be a fun time learning the virtues of a good life through the parables from the Bible and loads of fun activities. There are a few things about VBS though that come to my mind, like hot karingali water. Kottayam has a very tropical climate and during the summer temepratures would soar really high, imagine being served hot water to quench your thirst.
We were practically thinking of living in the Meenachil river and people were serving hot water here. There were loads of other fun things to remember but let me concentrate on my tryst with destiny as the VBS teacher my first time ever :), needless to say I was super excited about it.
So here is the deal you need to teach 6 year olds concepts such as Gratitude, Compassion, Forgiveness, Grace and Faithfulness. Basically walk them through parables in the Bible that emphasis on the importance of each of these characteristics and get them to talk about their real-life experiences where they have displayed these characteristics and I'm thinking, more than children its the elders who need this training class from a humanitarian aspect.
As kids we were sent to our native village for Vacation Bible School (VBS). It was supposed to be a fun time learning the virtues of a good life through the parables from the Bible and loads of fun activities. There are a few things about VBS though that come to my mind, like hot karingali water. Kottayam has a very tropical climate and during the summer temepratures would soar really high, imagine being served hot water to quench your thirst.
We were practically thinking of living in the Meenachil river and people were serving hot water here. There were loads of other fun things to remember but let me concentrate on my tryst with destiny as the VBS teacher my first time ever :), needless to say I was super excited about it.
So here is the deal you need to teach 6 year olds concepts such as Gratitude, Compassion, Forgiveness, Grace and Faithfulness. Basically walk them through parables in the Bible that emphasis on the importance of each of these characteristics and get them to talk about their real-life experiences where they have displayed these characteristics and I'm thinking, more than children its the elders who need this training class from a humanitarian aspect.
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