Only God Can Make a Tree

Only God Can Make a Tree

Rosanne Fortier - News Correspondent

Ten children between the ages of 4 to 11 attended the Vegreville United Church Vacation Bible School from July 19-23.

Rev. Pamela Milton and Holly Cependa were the Coordinators of this VBS.

On July 19, a team of Chairperson James Belliveau and Dharma Perez, Recreational Director for Camp Whitney, led a couple of the activities.

Cependa said the theme for VBS 2021 was bringing the camp to you, God’s wondrous world where their focus was on the trees; what trees provide for us and how we can be like trees.

Volunteers with students.

(Rosanne Fortier/Photo)

“On July 19, the children learned what trees do. They discovered that trees provide shelter, protection, and amazing things in nature. Then they had to find out what they could do to be this way too. For each day, there was a theme and a bible story that went with it. The children learned that they can share their talents with others and if the trees can make a difference in the world, they can make a difference too.

“The activities the children participated in were they made prayer books and went on a walk in our area where they listened to the sounds of nature and then they came back to the church and talked about what they heard. There were more nature walks, dancing, singing, crafts, and snack time.

Rev. Milton led the story time which held the theme, ``We Can Make a Difference.”

“We took the material from Camp Whitney this year. The activities we had were singing, storytelling, snack, crafts, praying, being in nature and learning how to interact with other children and adults. These activities are supposed to give children a positive experience of God and the people of God. They learn about Jesus and the Kingdom of God.VBS is meant to teach children to share and to make a difference in their world,” stated Rev. Milton.

“The purpose of VBS is to raise awareness of how we should live in harmony and in tune with nature and the wonders that are around us in God’s world,” Cependa added.