Pastor Brad from Experimental Church wants to take the VBS (Vacation Bible School) to the next level.
How?
SHOCK and AWE.
What does that mean for the church’s Noah’s Ark themed VBS?
Well, a live animal menagerie, for one.
Now most churches would spend their week building paper mache animals, eating gummy treats, and singing about the “arky arky”. Not Ridge View. We don’t play around here. I just called my buddy Ty, who owns a big game hunting park in Ohio, and reserved 18 live animals for VBS. Next Monday a truck is going to arrive at the church with:
* 3 white tailed deer
* 2 leopards
* 1 miniature bison (I didn’t even know such a thing existed!!!)
* 5 coyotes
* 1 American alligator
* 2 albino rhinos
* 3 box jellyfish
* 1 small whale (or porpoise?)
And then there’s the Noah’s Ark Flood Simulation Tank.
Here’s how it will work. The baptismal will be filled to the brim with ice cold saltwater. Sitting above the baptismal will be a contraption that allows a person to be suspended by their feet. Each child will be locked into the contraption by their feet and then slowly lowered, head first, into the freezing saltwater. They’ll stay submerged in the saltwater for approximately thirty seconds.
This simple, yet profound device, will allow each child to experience, first hand, what it would be like to be swept away in a flood.
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