{"id":8276,"date":"2025-05-01T10:38:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T14:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ecityemc.org\/resources\/?p=8276"},"modified":"2025-05-06T11:54:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:54:40","slug":"vbs-2025-true-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecityemc.org\/resources\/news\/05\/01\/vbs-2025-true-north\/","title":{"rendered":"VBS 2025 &#8211; True North"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ecityemc.org\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/25-vbs-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ecityemc.org\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/25-vbs-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.ecityemc.org\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/25-vbs-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ecityemc.org\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/25-vbs-1024x473.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ecityemc.org\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/25-vbs-768x354.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ecityemc.org\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/25-vbs-1536x709.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ecityemc.org\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/25-vbs-2048x945.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ecityemc.churchcenter.com\/people\/forms\/960301\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here to Register!<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Our theme this year is &#8220;True North &#8211; Trusting Jesus in a Wild World.\u201d Kids will explore how easy it is to lose sight of what\u2019s true in our wild world today and learn that Jesus is our true north. 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