Mt Carmel is one of our schools that we teach VBS to on Wednesday. It was our second week there as a team and my first week there personally. The kids are about 10-12 years old. I did the review from the week and then started our new subject, God is Never-Tiring. Instead of a story, Anna went through some passages with the kids about how God sustains us. (Psalm 3:5, Matthew 11:28, and Hebrews 1:3) That was our lesson but God had a much bigger lesson prepared. We then asked the kids if they had questioned. We normally teach nursery schools so we could not have even planned what happened next. All the kids started asking so many questions about the Bible. Almost every question had nothing to do with our lesson, but the kids completely opened up to us. The questions ranged from "How tall was Goliath?" to "Is God and Jesus the same person?" They were asking so many amazing questions. Teaching this age group really shows us the importance of VBS. The kids are at a crucial point in their life and I feel so honored to be able to answer these critical questions for them now. At the end of our time one kid came up to me and said in a timid voice, "I am black and you are white and there are people of different color, so what color is God?" It was so precious.

Each week we make a poster with the name of the lesson, the memory verse and the key points. When we were leaving one of the kids ran out and asked us if they could have the poster to hang in there classroom.
It is so amazing to me that these kids can't get enough of the Lord and they are the age of our middle-schoolers. After the teacher had thanked us multiple times he told us that other teachers in the school were wondering why HIS class gets to have us come teach VBS and none of the other classes get it. :) Enough Said

Oh and by the way we teach these kids during their recess/ break. This is how they would like to spend their time. As we say here: God is good all the time. And all the time, God is good. And that's his nature.