Friday, August 15, 2014

Spark's Ark Visits Vacation Bible School


2014 PUMC Vacation Bible School

Following a form developed by the Heifer Project the planning team led by Rosemary Herd and Carol Bruneau with the able assistance of Betty Splettstoesser, Kimberly Rusli, Chris Ward, Kathy Brann and Amy Wellington this year’s Vacation Bible school got underway and was held from August 11-14 in and around Ellis Hall. God’s presence in this world has been seen through the eyes of children in their study of animals and their relationship to the Bible.

On Tuesday a visit from Spark’s Ark brought the variety of creature life to Ellis Hall as Josh, the keeper of the Ark for almost an hour kept the children and adults enthralled with a wide variety of relatively small creatures that included a Barn Owl, Dragon, Boa Constrictor, and Hedgehog. Other small creatures were viewed and Josh fielded a number of questions from the children.

Using the material from Heifer has given these young folks preliminary introductions to what Heifer does in helping folks around the world. This introduction will continue through the fall in the children’s Sunday school program.

Peoples has had a long association with Heifer that dates back to the 1950s when live farm animals were seen on the church lawn and creatures from Heifers to goats to chickens have been sponsored for overseas delivery. Not to many years ago under the leadership of Merrill Kaiser the church raised over $5000 in sponsoring an “Ark”.

Church members thank the leaders and supporters of this year’s Vacation Bible School.










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