If your church is anything like mine, it's currently hosting hundreds of children for Vacation Bible School (VBS): a week-long program of Bible stories, worship, missions projects, crafts, and games. And if you're anything like me, you're both volunteering for VBS and wondering just when this model of Christian education became a staple of the church year.
In 2015 Michael Altman noted the lack of a good history of VBS. Now, I'm not the historian to write that book, but I did have some time last week to dig a bit.
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