VBS is over...

So it's over for another year. Somehow in my original job description - helping out with Vacation Bible School - was written in. I have usually enjoyed VBS, typically my responsibilites lie with the music end of things. This year was especially fun cause the theme was FIESTA! In the band we got to cover a couple of Salvador tunes. I had a bit of a struggle this year cause some people have such a crappy concept of volunteering. It kinda feels like we have all lost the original intention of this event which is to build relationships with kids and thier families. We have such a huge opportunity to interact with our community with this event - but often it seems that some people just want to get away with doing as little as possible. There are those who volunteer gladly every year and you know you can count on. But of course as usual these are the ones who volunteer for everything and you know they are over taxed.
It was fun this year working with my oldest boy as one of the 'mascots' for the VBS time. He and a few of his friends formed the three or more amigos. The kids loved them. they had to preform gross out tricks that Mark Dyck set up for them. Mark was the Gross Out Gaucho. The boys had to drink tooth brush rinse water, drink a slurpee out of the mouth of one of their friends, eat refried beans, catch wet tortillas with thier sombreros and eat a smokin hot burrito.
I have some serioius fun setting up all this stuff.