On the Move Snacks
On the Move VBS 2009 features both a snack and a full meal menu for four days in the Snack Leader. Both options relate directly either to the Bible lesson or the heritage emphasis.Session One
This day’s Bible lesson is about Deborah who sat under a date palm tree and delivered justice for the people. The snack for the day is dates. The full menu includes crab cakes because the heritage story occurs in Maryland Eastern Shore and everyone knows that Maryland is famous for its crab cakes.
Session Two
The Egyptian Pharaoh has a dream about seven cows coming up out of reed grass, a marsh. Rice grows in marshes and rice is one of South Carolina’s main crops, especially during the colonial period. The heritage story is in SC and Georgia. So rice cakes are the snack and rice is on the menu. Seafood is also on the menu, a seafood broil. The dessert is grilled peaches. Peaches are grown in both SC and GA.
Session Three
Jesus takes five loaves and two fish to feed a crowd of over five thousand people. For a snack, give the participants a baggie full of goldfish crackers and mini breadsticks. For a full meal, use cheese. The heritage lesson will inform about an event in Mississippi in which the local government denied federal commodities like cheese and peanut butter to black people registering to vote. Most kids like mac and cheese and grilled cheese sandwiches. They will love Mississippi Mud Pie for dessert.
Session Four
A queen visits King Solomon from a land that spanned the Arabian peninsula into the horn of Africa, known by the ancients as Sheba and known to moderns as Yemen, Djibouti, Eritrea, and Ethiopia. Corn and bananas are foods grown there so for snack, give students bananas and/or popcorn. Corn pudding is on the menu and grilled meat fried green tomatoes and baked apples are favorites in Tennessee, the location of the heritage event.
Session Five
The fifth session is a celebration, a celebration of the way humanity has been reconciled to God through Jesus Christ and a celebration of how we can be reconciled to one another like Paul was with John Mark. The Civil Rights Movement was about reconciliation and James Farmer’s bus ride, The Journey of Reconciliation, was to show the world that Blacks and Whites in America could be on the move in peace. The Love Feast or Communion are representative of the meal that churches celebrate to commemorate God’s reconciling act as they experience Christ’s gracious presence in the midst. Top off your program by celebrating Communion or having a Love Feast and then invite all to a meal of Virginia favorites: grilled chicken, Virginia ham, sweet potatoes, and turnips greens.