{"id":2988,"date":"2014-06-20T14:26:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T21:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2988"},"modified":"2014-06-20T14:26:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T21:26:00","slug":"prowling-the-vbs-front-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2014\/prowling-the-vbs-front-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Prowling the VBS Front Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>While the building was quiet and empty,<br \/>\nAnd my soul was needing a break,<br \/>\nI gat me o&#8217;er to the edifice so dainty,<br \/>\nAnd, lo, a verse to my heart did spake.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, so quick rhymery it is but hardly wholly sensible poetry. But, hey, you&#8217;re getting your money&#8217;s worth, so don&#8217;t fuss at me. Just scroll on and enjoy the scenery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/sbs14-verse.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/sbs14-verse.jpg\" alt=\"Bible verse\" title=\"a verse for my soul!\" style=\"width:400px; height:300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was so blessed to read that verse! I took it just for me! (I also thought of several of my troubled friends&#8230;) <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"verse\">&#8220;And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus&#8221;<\/span> (Philippians 4:7).<\/p>\n<p>That was upstairs in the classroom for grades 7 and 8. Thanks, Marvin and Esther!<\/p>\n<p>Then in the basement, in our daughter Chayli and her friend Beka&#8217;s classroom, I found more for my soul and those of my friends&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/sbs14-song.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/sbs14-song.jpg\" alt=\"SBS song\" title=\"Got any rivers you think are uncrossable?\" style=\"width:400px; height:300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Got any rivers you think are uncrossable?<br \/>\nGot any mountains you can&#8217;t tunnel through?<br \/>\nGod specializes in things thought impossible.<br \/>\nHe does the things others cannot do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Next, the bell used by several generations (I suppose) of Summer Bible School superintendents (the newest being Travis) at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2013\/hopewell-summer-bible-school-2013\/\" title=\"Hopewell Summer Bible School 2013\">Hopewell Mennonite Church<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/sbs14-bell.jpg\" alt=\"VBS Bell\" style=\"width:250px; height:335px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And a stack of the magnetic signs that go on the vehicles used to transport children:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/sbs14-car-signs.jpg\" alt=\"Hopewell Mennonite Church magnetic signs for vehicles\" style=\"width:400px; height:124px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And how about this chalk-on-aged-blackboard masterpiece by Connie, the wife of Superintendent Travis!<\/p>\n<div class=\"capt-pix\"><a href=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/sbs14-motto-in-chalk.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/sbs14-motto-in-chalk.jpg\" alt=\"Sumer Bible School motto done in plain chalk\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>God the Creator<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Meanwhile, outside&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/sbs14-church-sign.jpg\" alt=\"Hopewell Mennonite Church sign announcing Summer Bible School\" style=\"width:300px; height:322px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s the closing program at 8:00 pm.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wherein I scope out the Summer Bible School venue for Hopewell Mennonite Church<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[186,894,351],"class_list":["post-2988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-my-photos","tag-hope","tag-inspirational","tag-mennonites"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-Mc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}