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• VBS Wrap Up: What a Week!
  Our campus was filled with music and excitement as we explored the gospel of Matthew at TRUE NORTH: Trusting Jesus in a Wild World. We had 70 campers, our highest number since 2019! It was only possible because we also had an abundance of volunteers – 19 youth and 36 adults. Wow!! Huge thanks to everyone to contributed to VBS, especially the center leaders who organized the various areas. Their hours of preparation made the week run smoothly. There is no tired quite like “VBS tired,” but there’s also nothing quite like “VBS energy.” The songs will be playing on loop in our brains for weeks to come, and the sheer joy of witnessing the unrestrained exuberance as the children experience God’s love in our sacred space is incomparable. As always, the presence of the Holy Spirit was palpable the entire week, so it was perfectly fitting that Friday’s theme was all about Pentecost and the Great Commission. Truly, we lived out the Great Commission this week. The army of volunteers who made VBS so successful: Crafts: Laurel Goetz-Williams, Nancy Griner, Sharon Hansen; Music: Heather Roca; Recreation: Greg Andrews and his fabulous granddaughter Cheyene Hencley; Snack: Pam Denton, Vicki Conway, Diane Eberhart, Cheryl Wheeler, Liz ...