Taking a Bird’s Eye View of Vacation Bible School at the Wooster GBC
Posted by Liz Cutler Gates on June 29, 2009
Galen Moomaw, a long-time member of the Grace Brethren Church of Wooster, Ohio, has combined his long-time hobby of photography with a newer hobby of building and flying radio controlled airplanes. He has mounted an Aiptek Action HD video camera to a radio controlled airplane, which he flies over scenes he wants to photograph.
Recently, he captured this bird’s eye view of vacation Bible school at the north central Ohio church. Children are dropped off at the church’s main entrance. They gather by class, then enter the building together.
“I thought I could land close to the arriving cars… maybe too close,” he admits. “All ended well.”
VBS09 from Galen Moomaw on Vimeo.
“My plane is a design originated by a guy in New Hampshire,” says the retired farmer and former staff member at the church. “I call it my Fishin’ Pole Plane since it is built around a fishing pole. The wing is six-feet wide made by cutting the shape from a block of foam with an electrically heated wire. It is 48-inches long and weighs about five pounds including camera, motor, and battery.” He estimates it flies about 100 to 200 feet in the air.
If you look closely, you catch a glimpse of Galen at the end of the video as the plane “comes to Papa.”
Click here to view more videos shot by Galen.
One of interest, he says, is “Soccer Farm.” It shows the soccer program developed on the family farm by his son Randy, who is associate pastor of worship ministries at the Wooster church.
“He will have up to 50 boys practicing on the three soccer fields he has built,” Galen says, adding that the younger Moomaw is planning a soccer camp this summer with many of the coaches from the Wooster GBC.
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