Last year we were cowboys, this year pirates with the wacky

VeggieTales thrown into the mix. You never know what

you will find at DBC during VBS week. One thing is for sure though,

everyone goes away learning a lot about God in a

whole different way, and hopefully even a little bit about themselves

that they didn't know before.

No one could wait to see what crazy antics Bumpo and Bones

would perform each night. The Commodore tried her best to

keep them in check, but they seemed to have minds of their own.

By the end of the week though, even they realized

they had what it takes to be real heroes for Jesus.

Our numbers may not have been huge, but everyone who

participated put their all into this year's VBS.

Participants traveled from the Yo-Ho-Ho Opening Show to one of four stations.

Each night they visited Rock Monster Science Lab, Spyglass Bible Theater,

Whipcrack Island Games and Clapping Rock Crafts in their small "crews".

They met together in Spyglass Bible Theater Snacks half way through the evening

to create snacks based on the Bible Story each evening.

At the end of their group rotations they met again as a large group back at

Yo Ho Ho Closing Show before they left for the evening.

This year's Mission Offering for VBS went to Heifer International.

To make it more fun for the participants, we decided to give them a visual

image of how much money we had raised each night. We blew up an image

of a goat and cut it into 12 pieces. One share of a goat is $10 and

a whole goat costs $120. Each night we put another piece of our goat

on the picture in front of the sanctuary. By the end of Wednesday evening

we had enough money to already purchase one goat and by the end of the

celebration service on Sunday we had enough to purchase two for a total

of $240 raised. As part of DBC Youth's mission project for 2008

we will be matching the VBS donation, so we will be sending a total

of $480 to Heifer International. This was an amazing gesture

on everyone's part and the VBS staff would like to let everyone

responsible know how grateful we are for their generosity.

And to think, our goal was only one goat!

Our VBS Celebration Sunday brought everyone together one more time

to share with our congregation and the participants' families

everything that we learned and experienced during the course

of the week. Heather and I also took that opportunity to thank everyone

for all of their hard work and dedication because without

everyone's support, this community outreach wouldn't be possible,

Everyone enjoyed a potluck picnic immediately after the service

and shared some great food and fellowship.

Once again, Mr. John Rudiger came through with a special celebration cake surprise. Thank you "Mr. John" it not only looked fantastic, it was delicious!

As part of our Yo-Ho-Ho Closing Show each night,

a slide show was shown from pictures that Bumpo and Bones

took each evening. To view some of those shots, click

on the logo below to move onto the next page.