Babylon

 

 

 

Vacation Bible School is this week, and it is a family affair! I am assistant co-chair, meaning I am "shadowing" the chairs and will be co-chairing the event next year. Callie is attending VBS as an Upper Elementary youth which affords her many "big kid" priveleges such as field trips to our sister school and learning about Caritas of Austin's Refugee Resettlement Program. Today, her snack was rice, plain white rice, in an effort to learn about hunger here in our city. The kids then portioned out donated rice in one pound bags for Caritas to use in their program. Madden is experiencing VBS for the first time as a volunteer, and it has been such a joy to watch her joy! She is a preschool tribe leader, i.e. shepherd for a group of 4 & 5 year olds. Precious. And then there's Porter. He has found his niche playing the role of Daniel, a.k.a. Daniel in the Lion's Den. He is acting out the story of Daniel for our 100 preschoolers! And boy, is he making an impression, as today a little boy burst into tears when Porter, I mean Daniel, informed them that the King might kill Daniel and his friends! I'm told it was a serious case of uncontrollable tears at the thought of it. (For the following performances - he repeats the show 4X/day - Daniel said the King was only going to punish the men, not KILL them!)