St. Peter’s Vacation Bible School, Barnyard Roundup, is set for July 25-29
Our VBS has been growing for the last several years, and we are thrilled with this. Please help us continue to teach young people God’s Word by sharing a link to this post or our dedicated VBS page: http://www.saintpetersforestville.org/vbs2016/
Today we focused on the theme “Jesus Give Me Faith,” and we learned about how Jesus gave Bartimaeus his sight.
Today we learned about Deborah and how, like her, God gives us wisdom to serve others. Today we hit the number of fifty kids involved. Pretty exciting for a little village church like us!
What a wonderful first day of Camp Discovery Vacation Bible School! A great group gathered as we focused on how “God gives us courage.” We learned about how God gave David courage to face Goliath, and so our craft was a slingshot.
The Door County Advocate just published a great article about our youth mission trip to NYC. You can check it out here: http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/local/door-co/news/2015/06/30/newi-students-nyc-mission-work/29537577/
Our final full day in NYC, and we made every minute count.
We began the day with the children, once again. This day’s lesson was about Jesus’ Death and Resurrection, and we emphasized that Jesus takes away our sins. A real highlight of the day was our activity to reinforce the lesson: we planted flowers out in Christ Lutheran’s garden. As we planted the flowers, we reminded the children that, like flowers, Jesus came up out of the ground. He’s alive!
After working with the children, we finished up a few projects around the church, ate a little lunch, and then went to Manhattan for some sightseeing. We started out at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and spent two hours there. Pastor Jackson’s group even found Lucas Cranach the Elder’s painting of Martin Luther!
We then took a stroll through Central Park and proceeded to the Statton Island Ferry to get our pictures of the Statue of Liberty.
After the ferry, we traveled back to Woodside, and quick got ready to visit (not worship at!) the Sikh Gurdwara a couple of blocks away.
We finished out the day with our meeting and praying Vespers.
Monday was our fullest day so far. We began the day working with the children at Christ Lutheran’s childcare, teaching them about how Jesus loves children. We were excited to see that the children remembered some of the details from Friday’s lesson and how they expressed a love of Jesus. During the school time, some of our group broke off to work on other projects around the church.
In the afternoon, we traveled to Manhattan for several activities. We first went to the 911 Memorial, where we found the name of Ronald Bucca, a son of Christ Lutheran and a firefighter. He ran to the World Trade Center and up many dozens of flights of stairs and made it to the impact floor. This was a very moving experience.
From the 911 Memorial, we went to True Light Lutheran Church, an LCMS congregation in Chinatown. Their pastor, Matthew Staneck, informed us about the history and ministry there, and we helped out by doing a little bit of organizing and cleaning. We then proceeded to Hop Lee restuarant, where we had our main meal of the day. After the meal, we let the young people loose in Chinatown to do some haggling over souvenirs, etc.
We then went out to see the Mets play in an exciting game that went into extra evenings!
A very full, long, but fulfilling day.
Sorry that this post wasn’t posted this morning!
We spent the bulk of our day on Saturday working at a community health fair put on by Christ Lutheran and a local health organization. Our people helped by assisting in set up, standing out on the street to invite people in, and offering children’s activities. Meanwhile, four of us went up into the gym to paint a couple of worn walls. We then helped clean up after the health fair, and then it was time for our evening activities.
Pastor Hollmann took us down to 5th Avenue, and we set the youth free to take in the sights and do a little shopping. This was also the youths’ first introduction to street food, as they got some for dinner. Pastor Hollmann and Pastor Jackson, meanwhile, went down to the Apple store so that our trip could purchase a new Ipad as a gift for the church and its educational ministries.
We all met up on the steps of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and we took a brief tour of it before proceeding to “Top of the Rock.” We timed our entry onto the observation deck to give us a view of the sunset and the street lights turning on. A really great time.
It was time to head home, then, but that turned out to be an adventure. The train we wanted was not stopping at the station we entered, so we got onto a train that took us near to the Tram that crosses the East River to Roosevelt Island. Taking the tram wasn’t necessary for us to get home, but it was certainly a lot of fun, one of the group’s favorite activities.
Once on Roosevelt Island, we took a number of subways to make it back to Christ Church.
A big day of hard work and play that left us all tired and ready for a more restful day on Sunday.
St. Peter’s is excited to announce her 2015 Vacation Bible School: Camp Discovery! We will offer Camp Discovery on July 20-24.
Want to learn more or register? Click here!
Here are some pictures from last year:
Ash Wednesday: February 18, 7:00 PM – Divine Service with the Imposition of Ashes
Lenten Midweek Services: Wednesdays February 25 through March 25, 7:00 PM. Preceded by a parish meal at 6:00 PM
Sunday of the Passion (Palm Sunday): March 29, 10:30 AM – Divine Service with Procession of Palms
Holy (Maundy) Thursday: April 2, 7:30 PM – Divine Service with Stripping of the Altar
Good Friday: April 3, 7:30 PM – Chief Service
Holy Saturday Easter Vigil: April 4, 4:00 PM at our sister parish, St. John’s, Algoma
Easter Sunday: April 5, 10:30 AM
