I am very thankful for all the people who put in so much time to make VBS happen this year. I know I'm biased because my wife had a big hand in writing out the curriculum, but I do think we put together a great week of VBS. From the snacks to the games to the crafts to the decorations to the teaching to the skits and everything in between, along with the leadership of Susan and Callie and a number of others, I was thankful for how everyone was pulling in the same direction to facilitate an engaging and spiritually edifying VBS week. I was reminded that not every church is doing that. One of my daughters got invited to a much larger church's VBS, and her takeaway after the first day was that they didn't really teach about the Bible at all. They did however tell the kids that if they asked Jesus into their hearts, they could get their picture taken in a photo booth and have their photo placed on the wall. They were using the acknowledgement and approval of their peers, and what I would call cheap affirmation, to motivate young people to "say yes" to Jesus in a hyped-up environment while presenting little content of what the gospel actually is, says about us, or calls us to. These kinds of empty calorie calls for decisions, that leave people confused about what it actually means to believe Christ (if I may put it rather bluntly), make me very thankful for our own kids ministry and its approach to long-term discipleship and truly understanding and knowing Jesus. VBS is only a small part of that. Many thanks to all who served, and continue to serve our young people with wisdom and faithfulness.