Article: A SUMMER TRADITION VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL CURRICULUM HAS BEEN UPDATED, BUT THE LESSONS ARE THE SAME.(VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON)

Byline: JO-ANN CLEGG, STAFF WRITER

REMEMBER VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL? Warm Kool-Aid? Stick-puppet Noahs directing traffic on the ark? Moses parting a flannel board Red Sea? The excitement of learning that the Bible was inhabited by people of the human persuasion?

These days the stick puppets may have given way to more sophisticated figures, Moses may work his magic on a videotape and the Red Sea parts in plastic, but some things about vacation Bible school remain the same.

The ubiquitous Kool-Aid still comes warm, and discovering that everyone from Adam to Paul really was a living, breathing and sometimes sinning human being still triggers that ...

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