VBS anyone?!

Vacation Bible School, or VBS, is a common outreach effort by mission groups who come to Mexico. Bible stories, fun songs and arts-n-crafts abound, but there's often one or two memories that stay with the kids. For the Orchard Lake group, there were 2.....

• The Hokey Pokey, a novel song and dance routine most American children know, and


• Individual Polaroid camera shots of each child and the frames they made to display them.

Now I must confess about the Polaroid thing.... I wasn't so sure how it would work out. Having learned the hard way years ago just how many kids can squeeze into the frame of a Polaroid camera (at least 25!) and how many of those kids can get the picture that magically appears (just 1!), I wasn't so sure this would work out the way the group envisioned. But let me tell you, it was priceless! There are few expressions quite as priceless as watching a young child examine a photograph of themselves and smile so openly and unashamedly. For the members of the Orchard Lake group, they have pictures of them doing the Hokey Pokey to savor, but for the kids with the Polaroid shots in their brightly decorated magnet frames, you can bet they'll savor and save their picture for years and years to come!