Vacation Bible School Essay

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Amid the last few years, I have been volunteering to watch, interact, and ensure the safety of the little preschoolers in the sandy playground amid their time at Vacation Bible School more ordinarily known as VBS to the substantial majority of the people that live in the Prescott area and the surrounding towns and cities such as Chino Valley, Dewey, Cottonwood, and a number of others. “VBS by definition is a weekday program of Christian education for children featuring religious study courses, arts and crafts, and recreation conducted by local Christian churches for one or more weeks during the summer vacation” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). Through those years there are hundreds of children that attend this program and there have been quite

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