July 27, 2014 Community Vacation Bible School Worship We gathered for worship with five other churches to celebrate our third community Vacation Bible School. Our VBS program this year was "Workshop of Wonders from Cokesbury. The top attendance day, we had 94 children! The week was wonderful, entertaining and exhausting! Worship was exciting, inspiring, and fun! Sauk Valley Gazette picture: The children led us in singing, we celebrated communion together, and enjoyed the fellowship. The scripture presentation was the story of Esther, led by Nannette Pashon, Director of Christian Education at First Presbyterian Church. I followed up with these brief comments: Did you like that story? Me too. It is a favorite of many. It has all the elements of a good melodrama – a beautiful and smart woman, a good-hearted and wise man, a powerful king, and a totally despicable bad guy. That makes the story fun to hear, fun to read. Something interesting about the boo...
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