Young Children Raise UMCOR Awareness

Children at The Chapel’s KaBoom Camp raised $1,000 to purchase UMCOR cleaning buckets.

By Anne Bosarge*

This summer, children at The Chapel’s KaBoom Camp Vacation Bible School are exploring Jesus’ love through science and raising awareness about the disaster relief efforts of the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) around the globe.

During this four-day adventure, the children focus on how high, deep, long, and wide is Christ’s love for us, while exploring science concepts like explosions, light, wild weather, and chemical transformation. Each night they heard how UMCOR expresses that love to others by responding to national and international disasters as they watched a video that explored UMCOR’s cleanup and recovery efforts in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, the Oklahoma tornados, Hurricane Sandy, and the earthquake in Haiti.

So far this summer, the children at the elementary camp have raised $1,000 to purchase cleaning buckets for disaster survivors, and later this month, the preschoolers will have another chance to raise even more! The children were also excited to see five-gallon buckets line the stage as they displayed one bucket for every $55 raised—the cost of filling one bucket with cleanup supplies.

*Anne Bosarge is the Director of Discipleship at The Chapel.

The Chapel is a growing United Methodist Congregation in Brunswick, Georgia. Under the leadership of Jay Hanson, Senior Pastor, The Chapel seeks to provide environments where people can encounter God and fall in love with Jesus. They do this through innovative and creative programs like KaBoom Camp Vacation Bible School. Visit The Chapel’s resource page for more information.  

If you’d like to learn how you can do KaBoom Camp Vacation Bible School at your church, contact anne@thechapelbrunswick.com for curriculum and implementation instructions.