Porcupine VBS "Day 1"

The Puppet Wagon comes to Porcupine. We had our first of two days VBS today. It was a warm, 92 degree day but we have seen much hotter days.


The theme of VBS this year is The Fruits of the Spirit. You can see the puppets show with fruits singing and telling the Bible truths. Notice the girl in pink top, she has been given a yellow piece of paper with one of the Fruits of the spirit, these slips of paper were given out as children showed Kindness, Love, Joy or Patience. At the end of the day they received a gift if they had received a Fruit paper.

We had smaller groups for the Bible lesson. This is Pastor Andrew Utecht with some of the boys.

Our VBS today was especially blessed by having this young couple bring their 6 week old baby boy to be Baptised. There were about 55 children and a doz adults there for the Baptism and you could have heard a pin drop. Before the actual baptism, Rev. Robert Utecht did a great job of explaining the Baptism as being adopted by God as His very own child. How wonderful for all these VBS children to witness a baptism.

Everyone enjoyed the cake and cup cakes along with other treats and kool aid.

This small group was led by Magdiel (Max) who is a summer Vicar for Pastor Andrew Utecht. Max is from Mexico and his father is a LCMS pastor. Max name is from the Bible, Genesis 36: 43 (a descendant from Esau). Max did a very good job with the Bible lesson. Most of these little girls even learnt the Memory verse. 1 Thessalonians 5:15 b Always try to be kind to each other and to everyone else.

Max made sure everyone knew which page he was on and took time to explain everything very thoroughly.

Pastor Andrews son Amos along with Max Guitar accompaniment, led the group in music. Some of the songs being "JOY, This Little Gospel Light of mine and Father Abraham".

Craft Time! Sand pictures with a cross and heart. The children has a great time with these and were very proud of their sand craft creation.

The older children, 12 yrs old and up got to make this nice cross with shells and sand, FOOT PRINTS is the message on the cross.