Another year, another Vacation Bible School. This year's theme? 'Backstage With the Bible'. Everything went smoother by far than last year, where I had lead helpers dropping out and crazy shenanigans from cohorts left and right. This year I enlisted my friends Casey and Nik (who was supposed to help me last year but had a car accident on the way because life is that convenient) to be worship leaders with me. I was in charge of the whole entertainment department--again--but this year, I knew how to make things work.
It started with set build, which I couldn't do because I had a rehearsal for another show I got asked to do. A simple black curtain, stretched all the way across the stage, with a part in the middle and a rope cordoning off the "backstage" area. A red carpet rolled from the part in the curtain off the stage and down the steps.
We ended up improvising the skits, because the kids wouldn't pay attention if we read them off of a monitor. When we made that switch, the kids ate it up. The (annoyingly catchy) worship songs made them go crazy.
And then there was the pie contest.
Three worship leaders: Me, Nik, and Casey. Three buckets for the children to put offering in, each with one of our faces on it. The kids put their money in the bucket of the person they wanted to see get pied. I didn't know this, but there had been a big uproar with a bunch of the little boys last year about how all of my youth group guys ganged up on me and put two more pies in my face than was required. The little boys thought it was an "outrage" and it was entirely "unfair" because I'm a girl and they're chivalrous little gentlemen who teenage boys need to take a lesson from.
Naturally, they put all of their money in the boy's buckets this year. At the end of the exciting week (during which there were TWO 4.0 EARTHQUAKES and ONE smaller one but you could still feel it here in lovely Southern California) I came in last place, with eight dollars in my bucket. Nik came in second place, with around twenty dollars in his bucket, and Casey came in first with about fifty. Poor redhead.
I expected another trick. Usually, the people doing the pie-ing get pied by someone else.This year nothing happened. We pied Casey like normal.
It was a disappointment.
Oh, well. VBS still went very well, the kids had fun, and I gained some more experience along the way.
...the end.
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