So this past week at Journey’s Treasure Island VBS, the children discovered that God wants us to treasure things like loving our family, helping others, and caring for creation. They learned how to be reverse pirates – instead of greedily seeking treasure for themselves, they gave of their treasure to help kids in Haiti. But at the same time, everyone had fun learning how to talk like a pirate. We dressed up as pirates and peppered our language with silly pirate phrases all week. So that the rest of you can keep up with the Journey kids in conversation now, we thought we would provide you with a brief tutorial on “how to talk like a pirate.”

Ahoy, mateys – general greeting, “hi there”
Aye, Aye – yes
Arrgh – pirate exclamation for a wide variety of situations
Avast – pay attention
Shiver me timbers – expression of fear and surprise
Smartly there – hurry up
Me Hearties – my dear friends

So the next time you bump into one of the Journey kids as you are sailing the high seas, great them with an “Ahoy, matey” and take them back to their time on Treasure Island.