The Incredible Race
Get ready for a race filled with fun clues to find, challenges to attempt, and a global scavenger hunt like you’ve never seen! At the same time, kids will learn about another race that started in the Garden of Eden. What race is that? The human race.
As we move around the world during our 2019 vacation bible school, we’ll make pit stops before, during, and after the Tower of Babel, showing kids how this event from the Bible matters today!
Who is invited? Kids! (Toddlers to 8th grade)
When is it? July 21st-26th @ 6-9pm
What happens at VBS? Games, Crafts, Food, and Studying God’s Word. See the daily themes below.
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For more info contact Darnell Marks (VBS Director) liveoutloud.ps100@gmail.com
DAY 1: READY, SET, GO: BEFORE BABEL
BIBLE PASSAGES: Genesis 1–11
REFUELING STATION LESSON FOCUS
As the race starts, we explore the beginning of the human race and why nobody has run a perfect race through life.
MILE MARKER MEMORY VERSE
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. (Romans 3:23)
DAY 2: HITTING A ROADBLOCK: AT BABEL
BIBLE PASSAGES: Genesis 11:1–9
LESSON FOCUS
On this leg of the race. we stop at the Tower of Babel and check out the important and loving roadblock God provided there.
MILE MARKER MEMORY VERSES
Its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the the face of all the earth. (Genesis 11:9)
DAY 3: ONE RACE, MANY NATIONS: AFTER BABEL
BIBLE PASSAGES: Genesis 10, Psalm 139, Acts 17:26
LESSON FOCUS
On leg three, we see how the human race develops into people groups with different languages, cultures, and physical features, but how we are still all one race.
MILE MARKER MEMORY VERSE
And he made from one man every nation. (Acts 17:26)
DAY 4: ONE WAY—JESUS: BABEL AND THE GOSPEL
BIBLE PASSAGES: Revelation 7:9–10
LESSON FOCUS
On our fourth leg, we discover the need to yield our lives to God as he reaches out to all nations, tribes, and peoples with his love through Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world.
MILE MARKER MEMORY VERSE
The Father has sent his son to be the Savior of the World. (1 John 4:14)
DAY 5: GREEN LIGHT—GO: WHY BABEL MATTERS TODAY
BIBLE PASSAGES: Luke 10:25–37
REFUELING STATION LESSON FOCUS
On this final leg, we learn that because God loves all people groups, we ought to treat others with love and respect, not prejudice and judgment.
MILE MARKER MEMORY VERSE
If God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. (1 John 4:11)