VBS Teams Now Forming
Each summer, one very specialized team is called to step in when and where they are needed. Here's the team history: as early as the 1860s, wise people began enriching kids' summer vacations with a chance to learn God's Word. In the 1890s, Eliza Hawes devised strategies to head off summer boredom and give greater meaning to the lives of kids in the slums of New York City. Her program offered music, Bible stories, games, nature study, crafts-and lasted six weeks! (Can you imagine?)