Yours in Christ,
Wade
This year my church, Berean Bible Church and Life Way Church teamed up to do Vacation Bible School. There were about 32 children and I was asked to teach three Science Lessons on the subjects of rock layers in the Grand Canyon, earth’s water cycle and earth’s tectonic plates and the effect they have on earth quakes. The three lessons fit very well with what we learn from the book of Genesis. For example: the 20 rock layers of the Grand Canyon all contain fossils from the Ocean. God caused rain to fall on the earth for 40 days and nights. But He also broke up the fountains of the great deep which would result in massive amounts of fossil containing sediments being washed up on land. Some of the layers are bent without the rocks being broken. That indicates they were bent before becoming rock. That helps us understand how the Grand Canyon was washed by the massive waters returning to the ocean while the sediments were still soft. The weather cycle includes the rainbow, God’s promise that He would never again flood the whole earth. The tectonic plates were discovered after World War II when sonar was developed to discover enemy submarines. In peace time sonar is used to discover and map the bottom of the oceans. Massive upheavals have been discovered where magma and perhaps more water were pushed upward increasing the depth and violence of the Genesis flood. When the tectonic plates move and rub against each other today it causes earthquakes. The pictures were turned into stickers so the kids could take them home. Interacting with the children was very different from my usual ministry to the elderly.