Tic tac toe

Last week was Vacation Bible School at our church and the theme was Pandamania, or God is About You. Nathan and Camden both were able to attend the night session while I was a helper. Camden is actually a year too young to go to the real VBS, but since he was the only 4 year old in the preschool section and the only other child was only one year old, they moved him up to the rising K5 group. He was a little anxious at first, but started to really enjoy all the excitement.

Being the youngest, he spent a lot of time following along with what all the other kids were doing. He especially liked raising his hand to answer questions. But he didn't really know the answers! The first time someone called on him, he answered "Tic tac toe!". Of course this produced laughter and he liked that. So he kept answering questions with "Tic tac toe" all week. What is really funny about this is that he doesn't even know about the game tic, tac, toe.

I was on the story telling team this year and the guy working with me egged him on one night by calling on him. Of course he answered "Tic tac toe". By the fourth night, all the kids in his group were answering "Tic tac toe". That night our story was about Peter and the persecuted church. We walked around the church grounds pretending to hide from Roman soldiers and then had our story in the secret hide-out. After the "tic tac toe" answer, George decided to turn that into our code to use when we saw Roman soldiers. This was our code for saying "God loves you".

Camden and Nathan both learned at VBS this year, and even though some of the stories were over Camden's head, he did come away from VBS knowing that God loves him; that God is wild about him. He came away knowing about "tic, tac, toe". So next time you are out to dinner and playing the simple game of tic, tac, toe on your child's menu, remember...God loves you!!! Tic, tac, toe!!!