Why in the World Do We Have VBS Anyway?

  [274 words] I know that VBS is a challenge. I mean if you have been around children for any length of time you know if you get 70 (or more) children together – you have your hands full. But it is important! This week, I fired up my computer’s Bible search engine and began reading all the various scriptures about children. This is some of what I found: There are over 400 different references in our Bible about children – about the joys and challenges of raising them right. But what I really found interesting is that there were two scriptures about children that really tugged at my heart. The first was: “Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it” (Proverbs 22:6). Many times our kids are so bombarded by other things – such as school and athletics and…