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www.oakvillebeaver.com · OAKVILLE BEAVER Friday, August 6, 2010 · 12 Bible camp in Egypt PHOTOS BY KAREN NEWMAN OAKVILLE BEAVER GOING BACK IN TIME: The recent Vacation Bible School at Maple Grove United Church set up an Egyptian Market Place with themed tents such as embalmer tent, basket making, barber shop and beauty salon. Clockwise from above, Sam Persons Parks wears the Anubis mask in the embalmers tent. Anubis is the Greek name for a jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife in Egyptian mythology. Shelby Eddy (left) with her mom Bobbi-Jo Walker stand with an Egyptian sarcophagus outside of the embalmers workshop. Sam Denovan (left) and Natasha Wandel make bricks out of mud and straw. Reegan D. makes a pectoral plate. Pectoral plates were worn in Egypt as symbols of wealth and power. Mary Jane Morton makes sure all the kids are getting some cold water and fruit at the food tent. Marie McCloeman (left) has Egyptian-style makeup applied by Alana Greig in the beauty salon tent.