A Mile from the Beach...: This is Cool...

Sunday, August 12, 2007

This is Cool...

This past week my kids were at a Vacation Bible School sponsored by one of the local Lutheran churches in town (and for you Lutherans who are reading this, it is a Missouri Synod congregation). They had a fantastic time on the "Quest for Truth" about Jesus, and their week culminated in a short pageant on Friday night in which each class recited a memory verse and sang a song. Additionally, their artwork and projects were on display on tables throughout the hall.

Of note was that with my daughter's class, each child was given a Bible...Today's NIV translation, slimline, with faux leather cover. Margaret was thrilled...hers was pink!

When we got home, she thumbed through her new Bible and saw a reading schedule to read the Bible cover to cover in one year, and proclaimed that she would start that on Saturday morning.

Sure enough...when I got her out of bed, she said she had read the readings for Days One and Two.

And she packed it in her tote bag yesterday to read when she spends this week with Hank and their grandparents!

If an 8 year old can begin reading the Bible cover to cover yesterday...how about you?

Labels: Christian life, family

4 Comments:

At 12 August, 2007 22:32, John said...: This has actually been a goal of mine for a while now to read the whole Bible, but I've never started on it since I was 12 and got through about 8 books of the Old Testament before forgetting about it. I guess there was a lot of extra baggage in what Jesus was saying when he told us to "be like little children," and this is one more thing we can learn from their example.
At 13 August, 2007 06:50, Love said...: Is she reading the Old and New Testaments?
At 13 August, 2007 10:10, Andy said...: Thanks for coming by John. I've done the Bible cover to cover 2x in the past two years.

Love, yes, her plan is to read both. She got started with the first few chapters in Genesis - on Saturday she had read up to the Tower of Babel.
At 14 August, 2007 10:45, Peter Burch said...: the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. well done andy. this reminds of a wellington boone message at PKs. i think you remember the one.