Learning on Safari
Sandy Larsen
When summer Bible school outgrew the tight facilities of Joy Lutheran Church in Prescott, Wisconsin, workers found alternative space in the great outdoors: They took some of the kids camping.
Prescott is in a vacationland with several state parks nearby. The oldest Bible school children (fifth and sixth graders) had their own three-day campout.
Materials had to be adapted for the outdoors, but many creative crafts were naturals for the rocky Wisconsin woods. The group camped in an open space by a river, had all the room it needed to re-enact Pharaoh's pursuit of the fleeing Israelites and the panic by the Red Sea.
Even some adversities of camping were turned into teaching opportunities. The campers took responsibility for cooking all meals and cleaning up. One afternoon a heavy rain flooded the campsite and canceled the planned activities. With nothing else to do, all the campers and staff wound up huddled in the biggest tent. As everybody talked, the jealousy between the two grade levels came out, followed by a time of getting things into the open and talking about how Christ could help the conflict.
The campout worked so well Joy Lutheran repeated it the next summer.
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