VBS Elijah Night 4

What a great night!

Now we finally know who let the dogs out. (It was God and he did it to kill Jezebel.)
And the Chariot went up without a hitch!

We broke down the set in record time. We were at IHOP @ 11pm! Wow!

Great job cast and crew! I've gotten a lot of great feedback and what to send that love on to you. You guys really make the show great!

Well, better clean up and do it all again next year.

VBS Elijah Night 3

It was GREAT!

Baal vs. God!
Elijah rocks the HSM2!
They loved Cody's falsetto!

Must paint!

VBS Elijah Night 2

Elijah Night 2: A VBS First.

Drama, Actually Drama. After the PoBs loosened everyone up we got into the story of the Widow and her Son. The boy got sick and died. He sang, she sang, Elijah sang and he lived!

And over those 15 minutes the kids got worried, got sad and some of them cried. People may question making kids cry in VBS but I think its an appropriate emotional reaction to the story.

They were attached to the boy enough so that when he got sick and died they felt it. Joe, Laura and Hutt sang beautifully. There were a plethora of little sniffles and sobs when the boy died. And a cheer when he came back to life.

As per usual Ahab and Jezy were funny. But the most memorable gag of the night might have been when the well started to fall onstage towards Laura and Hutt stopped it then held up a hand to to audience as if to say, "It's ok. I got this."

VBS Elijah Night 1

Night 1 of Elijah was a smash! We're off to a great start.

Night one has a lot of scene changes and the cast did them really quickly.

If you missed out you missed:

Evil Queen doing the Vogue Dance
A King who's not allowed to Sing
Some well dressed prophets of Baal! SHAZAM!
And an Unkindness of Ravens.

Yep, a group of Ravens is actually called an Unkindness of Ravens.

To bulk up this article I'll list a few more group of Animals names.

A Crash of Rhinos
A Congregation of Crocodiles
A Murder of Crows
A Congregation of Owls
and finally
A Flock of Seagulls... and I raaaaan, I ran so far away!

Workaholic or Playboy?

I picked up this little tract at Ryan's church. Until VBS is over I'm feeling a workaholic. But I will try and squeeze in a little Playboy in before its over.

Here are the bold text titles of the little sections of the tract:
* It's a Playboy world
* Day's work for day's pay
* Why work?
* The need for balance.
* Final thought
* Prayer

The chapter I'm currently interested in is "The need for Balance" unfortunately my balance doesn't allow flying to New York (as badly as I want to) but can include a Musical besides Elijah.

I love my interns enthusiasm, but I can't add 12 new events to an already crowded summer. Last summer we did at least one or two events a week on top of our normally busy church schedule.

What suffered?

• My health - At the end of the summer I crashed hard
• Their attendance - Gas prices and over scheduling led to people thinking, 'I can skip this one or that one.'
• My Social Life - Dead.
• Their Parents Patience - Eye rolling abounds
• The End of Summer Video - Although crowded with events we were too busy to document each event very well as one was ending the next was already running late.

THIS SUMMER: "Less is More."

We've consolidated some events. Instead of shotgun blasts of events I want each event to have a purpose and each event to have an impact. Now I just need some way to break my interns spirit.

VBS Nights 3&4

Also went well.

VBS Nights 1&2!

What a great couple of days. 2 Minor Miracles have happened thus far:

1) The Water from the Rock really only worked well ONCE! Luckily that once was during the performance.

2) We had to be under 40 minutes of footage for the video in the Night 2 or we might suffer loss of video! Our last practice ran 45 minutes. The actual performance took 39 minutes and 33 seconds!

God is clearly with this production and I've been amazed the number of visitors we've been getting this year!

Thank all of you cast, crew and teachers who are making it happen.

Want to be part of the fun? Bring cookies on WEDNESDAY! See you tonight!

VBS Tonight thru Wednesday!

Hope to see you all there for Joshua: Shout to the Lord.

Night One features Moses, the 10 Commandments and water from the Rock!

Night Two features the 12 spies (10 were bad and two were good), the Wilderness Wandering, and the Intro to Rahab

Night Three includes more Rahab and the crossing of the Jordan River

And Night Four the walls of Jericho fall down!

Pictures

Ok, so mine isn't a "picture blog", its a word blog, but here are a few pics. (I can't rotate the pics, please tilt head to the right.)

Here is the before picture of a bust of Shakespear.

Hereis the after picture... he is now an idol to Baal.

Also here is a picture of what happens to Chocolate Frogs if they are left on my laptop overnight.