I am excited to announce this year’s Vacation Bible School theme, Compassion Camp: What Every Living Thing Needs. This exciting curriculum was developed by Illustrated Ministries and incorporates creativity, fun and games, music, Bible lessons, and more into an awesome week of learning about caring for the world, each other, and ourselves.

VBS at Mount Olivet is available for children ages three and above through 4th grade (5th grade through middle school kids can help be team leaders during VBS and can participate in Summer Spree in the afternoon) and runs from 9am  to 12:00 noon. VBS this year runs from August 14th through 17th.

From the publisher:

“As we look around the world, our deep need for compassion becomes increasingly evident with each passing day, perhaps now more than ever. Compassion Camp aims to cultivate compassion for each other, ourselves, and the world. We will examine different places in our lives where we can cultivate compassion. Using each Compassion Camp component, we’ll explore themes of compassion as they relate to each session’s scripture. Through Compassion Camp: What Every Living Thing Needs, participants will explore what all living things need to live—shelter, food, water, air, and community—and how they can have compassion for the living earth, especially in their local ecosystems. Through awareness, gratitude, wonderment, reciprocity, and kinship, participants will consider how to become co-sustainers and participants in the work of God’s creation. Using Psalm 104 as their grounding text, along with additional supporting scripture, participants will closely examine the interconnectedness of the whole earth—humans alongside the more-than-human world.”

We are super excited to share Compassion Camp with our community this year! Look for a volunteer sign-up to come out in the next few weeks. If you would like to help with the VBS planning team, contact me directly. If you would like to register your child for Compassion Camp VBS this year, do so by filling out this form.

I am looking forward to a great week of fun, exploration, learning, and compassion! 

Pace
Director of Children and Family Ministry