If you sent your school aged child to our VBS, and they came home with a giant scroll made out of fabric and had pictures depicting the theme that Christ is prophesied throughout the Old Testement, would you think that was cool? OR would you rather have a bunch of little cheapie crafts like key chains and picture frames?
I’m asking seriously. I have to make a decision in a couple of weeks about craft for this year, and I want to make sure I have input.
So lurkers, frequent posters, friends and passers-by, please lemme know if you think that craft is cool or not. Thanks.
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April 25, 2007 at 7:05 am
Queen of Carrots
I think that craft is way, way cool. I would definitely rather my kids came home with that.
April 25, 2007 at 9:51 am
Mike Benoit
That would definitely find a place on the wall. Good find.
April 25, 2007 at 5:29 pm
ellie
go scroll! All the way
April 25, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Devona
Hmmm. OK. Keep the comments coming
April 26, 2007 at 8:00 am
Lisa
Lisa dropping in to comment…
Who cares what we (adults) think? Ask a kid what they want…not what they want to take home, but what they want to do. It’s all about the doing, I would think.
The scroll is amazing, but it involves the same sort of “doing” throughout. And yet with the proper instruction, they may enjoy telling about the scroll later.
April 26, 2007 at 10:06 am
mutti
My boys are 15 anc 14 and my daughter is 9. When she was very young the boys made these awesome wall hangings that they still have in their rooms. They have three sections: Baptism (shell with three little pearl beads glued on red felt). Then 10 commandments: a mirror with the 10 commandments stamped (third use=guide) on it (second use of law=mirror) and with a very thin wood (balsa? wood) framing it( first use of law=Curb). and last a picture of Christ on Cross. I should take a picture of it and post it…
April 26, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Devona
mutti, that sounds really awesome!
And asking a kid is a good idea. Good thought, Lisa.
April 27, 2007 at 3:09 pm
kerner
I want the cheapie key chains and picture frames. They have utilitarian value. Besides, they were good enough for me when I was a kid, wnd we shouldn’t change time honored traditions. Stick with the tried and true, Missy.
I’m KIDDING…Just KIDDING! Of COURSE the scroll sounds better…
April 27, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Elle
The scroll is way better. They won’t go through their junk drawers in a year or two and wonder where they got it and why someone gave them something so cheap. The scroll, they’ll be proud to be able to explain.
A neighbor hosted a vbs type thing when I was probably about 6 or 7 and we made felt wall hangings with John 3:16 written on it in silver glitter. After seven moves, dragging my junk clear across the country three different times, I still have it. I didn’t hold on to any of the cheap plastic stuff.
Mutti, I love the wall hanging idea! Very cool!
April 28, 2007 at 8:55 am
Devona
I have gone over and over the craft directions. I am really beginning to love the scroll! The Lamb of god is on Matza Bread! That is the coolest thing in the whole world!!!!!!
Every Lutheran Church should do pax domini’s VBSs. They have a game in the recreation section that has a child playing the “Angel of Death.” It’s called Passover Tag.
April 30, 2007 at 7:29 pm
Wow
Angel of Death tag! Doesn’t “pax” mean “peace”? Is the object of the game to pass over the Kids who have blood splattered on them already?
Antagonistically,
Andy
April 30, 2007 at 7:35 pm
Devona
Is the object of the game to pass over the Kids who have blood splattered on them already?
Yes. Only it’s a collection of red lamb necklaces that the kids find in order to be safe from the Angel of Death.
May 2, 2007 at 1:41 am
Andy
I think the consensus on this end is that “Angel of Death Tag” is pretty creepy.
May 2, 2007 at 8:57 am
Devona
That’s why you’re not a Lutheran.
May 2, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Andy
So you have to be Lutheran to take God’s judgment and turn it into a game of tag?
May 2, 2007 at 10:38 pm
Rob
Lutherans thrive when the stakes are high.
May 4, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Mary
I just took a look at the scroll. Dan, (the cute craft hater), would be really proud of that. Emily would want a different color scheme.
Overall, I give it 4.5 out of 5 stars. I think my kids would approve, too.
Keep up the good work, Devona!
Mary
May 18, 2007 at 12:41 am
Rev. Peter Burfeind
As the craft designer for Pax Domini, I appreciate these comments. (I do a google on our stuff periodically to see what pops up). You should check out our “latest model” for “The Remissin of Sins.”
BTW, to the critic of my recreation idea… Did you ever think that the “Pax Domini” (peace of the Lord) is spoken while the “blood of the Lamb” is presented to the people, during the singing of the Agnus Dei? In the Reagan days, it was peace through strength. In the Church, it’s peace through blood.
Thanks for all your encouraging comments!