It’s the celebration of the year and you’re invited! Celebrate God’s welcoming love for everyone at Cokesbury’s Everywhere Fun Fair VBS, where God’s world comes together. At this exciting child-friendly fair, your children will experience welcoming neighbors from the Bible and explore the everyday life of neighbors from Japan, Zimbabwe, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Mexico. Children will discover that God’s love welcomes everyone, as they learn to love and serve God and be a neighbor to the world. Everywhere Fun Fair takes children to a global celebration with the look and feel of a world’s fair. Children will make friends with neighbors around the world and discover that God’s love can be found everywhere, including their own neighborhoods. Everywhere Fun Fair VBS addresses and represents the whole spectrum of people in the human family including different age levels, racial and ethnic groups, learning capacities and styles, stages of development, and the variety of abilities and disabilities. Everywhere Fun Fair uses proven techniques in Christian education to engage kids. By combining a flexible format with age-level appropriate lessons, kids will have multiple ways to discover that Jesus welcomes everyone. Through five Bible Stories called Today’s Celebration children will; Be introduced to Abraham and Sarah and encounter ways they offer hospitality to three visitors and discover that there is joy in helping your neighbor. Meet a widow who gives food to Elijah. Even when she isn’t sure she has enough food to share, she gives to a neighbor in need. Discover how a bold Samaritan comes to the aid of a person in crisis by making sure all of his needs are met. See how Jesus forgives Zacchaeus and how this life-changing action makes a difference in how Zacchaeus treats his neighbors. Hear about the experience of Peter during his time with Cornelius and the Gentiles. Realize how Peter gains the insight that God is welcoming to all people and why we should do likewise.