By Mary Jacobs

The Vacation Bible School at Bailey Memorial United Methodist Church in rural Rosemont, W.Va., may be small—38 kids this year—but it’s breaking new ground.

Bailey’s program was a test run of Cokesbury’s new VBS curriculum for 2012, entitled Operation Overboard. Directing was church member Albert Simon—who believes he’s the only man to field-test a Vacation Bible School curriculum in the U.S.—with help from 25 teen and adult volunteers, about half of them male.

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