Stories from Singapore: VBS, Days 1 & 2

CERC's annual Vacation Bible School was held last week from Tuesday-Friday. Instead of spending the whole week at a chalet in eastern Singapore as they usually do, the first day and a half were spent at church (with no overnighter Tuesday night). The theme this year was "The Gospel: A Witness Unto All Nations." The organizing committee and the lesson leaders did an excellent job with this theme!

One of the special activities was a Skype call with Emmanuel & Sonali in Kolkata, to ask questions about Emmanuel's work there. The kids also enjoyed a chance to play the tabla, Indian drums.

The children were split up into four different groups for lessons and crafts.

The youngest group, taught by Wan Teng and her assistant Elena

Nicole taught the next group.

Yang Zhi showing his class something on his computer

Patricia had the oldest kids, who did some work

the first day on India and our church's work there.

Eric and Johann

Between lessons there was time for lunch and games.

On Wednesday there was an outing to Singapore's Changi Airport.

Emily and Charis on the bus on the way to the airport

Serene and Foong Ngee helped with the outing.

The kids were split into different groups and had activities to do throughout the airport, in the terminals that would take them to our sister churches and the mission fields in the Philippines and Kolkata.

One of the groups fulfilling the requirement to get a group photo

on the Skytrain as they passed the control tower

Crayon rubbings in Terminal 3

Worksheets about missions

Jessica and Nichelle had spent a lot of time making a Global Twister game--the same concept as Twister, but played on a map of the world. The game seemed to be a hit!