Summer Blast 2021: Press Play and Get in the Mix

My kids struggled with our church’s virtual Vacation Bible School program this year.  Last year, YouTube and Zoom events still held some novelty, and we did the best we could to stay on task with the zillions of craft and games and verse memorization and service projects that the team put together for us.  This year, even though I carted four boxes of the church’s well-prepared supplies over 2,000 miles to our final summer destination, thanks to our enormous cartop carrier, my kids had trouble getting into it.  My oldest one could at least express her preference for in person events.  The others just groaned.

Hopefully we weren’t the only family who had a hard time.

Before they (we) gave up though, we got to know a few of the new songs, and we enjoyed a few of the YouTube programs.  They included worship songs, Bible teaching, and games, but our favorite part was the So & So Show! 

“Can we watch that again?” one of my kids would ask.  

Or, if the show was already playing when one of them walked into the room, they might grab their forehead and complain that,

“Oh no, I missed it?!” before doubling over in tears.

(It’s pretty easy to restart a YouTube program, it turns out.)

If you’re at all interested in checking it out, click here for Day One (of five) of our church’s Vacation Bible School, which we call Summer Blast.  And, it turns out that there’s a whole channel for the So & So Show as well -- 145 episodes apparently!  You can find episode 1 here.

Maybe, like our family, you’re pretty much spent on virtual programming.  But I suspect someday the desire might come back...perhaps next winter when we’re cooped up in the house.  I’m going to keep this one in my back pocket.  Good comedy.  Good teaching.  I hope you can enjoy this or something similar as well.