VBS shows kids how to ‘Bring the Light’

This summer’s Vacation Bible School at CrossWay Christian Church, Nashua, New Hampshire, used a replica of a Nairobi, Kenya, slum home to illustrate the week’s theme, “Chase the Light.”

The missions project for the VBS was the church’s upcoming short-term trip to Kenya. The workers on the trip will use the money to purchase supplies for the project known as “Bring the Light,” in which clear plastic panels are inserted into the roofs of the small slum shanties, bringing a bit of light into the darkness. To help the children understand how the people in the Kiandaruru slum live, CrossWay church member Pete Paradise built a small shanty on the church property.

“Pete rigged it with a pull string that would open a small hole in the roof, about the size of a ‘Bring the Light’ hole, that would let the light in,” writes CrossWay minister Ron Kastens. “Kids could pull the rope to see the difference ‘Bring the Light’ makes to a Kenyan family. The whole project was incredibly cool and a very powerful lesson for our church family.”