Saint Elizabeth's Vacation Bible School Experience Report

In the August of 2016, I volunteered my time, talent, and skills to help “instruct the ignorant.” This is a Spiritual work of mercy, as instructing the ignorant helps us grow spiritually and emotionally while helping our neighbors. During this week long experience at Saint Elizabeth’s Vacation Bible School, I spent my time helping young, innocent children learn music that lifts praise to God. The whole experience was exhilarating. While this might seem trivial to some, it was a very fun and enlightening experience to me. I am sure that some of those children didn’t care much about what we did during the musical period and were mostly just happy to be dancing around instead of paying full attention, but I hope that others really took what we learned and used it to help them grow spiritually just as I did. …show more content…
Many of them looked overjoyed and excited while singing and learning the music. I hope that I helped teach them that singing is not only a fun activity, but that they could use their singing voice to pray to God in a unique way. At the same time, I feel like this experience helped me grow, as well. I learned that I had a talent for sculpting young minds and I actually pondered the fact that maybe I could eventually become a teacher in my adult life. With this new found enjoyment, I felt that the Lord was there with me everyday. He inspired and guided me to give my all to those children and helped me to teach them with my fullest