VBS 2014 Tour Stop 1: Jump Start Kit

Over the next few weeks I will be taking you with me on a tour of the improvements, updates, and changes you will soon experience with Agency D3: Discover. Decide. Defend!
The improvement that will be most noticeable at first – especially to VBS directors and pastors – is the absence of the Sampler and Super Sampler. For 17 years Lifeway has offered a Sampler, and more recently a Super Sampler, of the many resources designed for that specific year.
We said “Sampler” but many of you thought “Starter Kit”. While this may seem like a trivial difference, it can be a huge distinction, especially when a sampler does not include everything needed to get started. You spoke and we listened!
So out with samplers and in with Starter Kits! The first is the Jump Start Kit that will be available beginning in October (previously VBS resources, including samplers, have not been available until December).
 

As the name implies, the Jump Start Kit is designed specifically to give directors a jump start in planning, enlisting workers, and promoting the theme and dates of VBS.
The Agency D3 Jump Start Kit includes an Administrative Guide for Directors, a copy of Decorating Made Easy, Music for Kids CD, a sample of the Kids Evidence Kit for Grades 1-6, Special Agent Carabiner, Special Agent Rearview Sunglasses, Catalog, Jump Start Poster, Promotional DVD, a master of the new Takin’ It Home CD, an exclusive Director’s Badge, all packaged in an official Agency D3 metal attache case.
The VBS 2014 Jump Start Kit is $34.95. Except for the exclusive Jump Start (“save the date”) poster and Director’s Badge, all other resources of the kit can also be purchased separately.
My favorite part of the attache case is the way it is written into the Agency D3 worship rally script. Each day the director or pastor will be instructed to open the case to reveal information that is vital to the investigation for that day. In addition to the case, directors will want to wear their exclusive badge along with their rearview glasses and carabiner.
Agency D3 is a theme kids will love! But more importantly it is a theme that challenges kids, teens, and adults to explore God’s Word for themselves, decide what they believe about the truths discovered, and then have the ability to defend their beliefs.
Sure, VBS is about the fun of a theme that leaders as well as kids enjoy, but more importantly it is about the Bible content and the way it is presented to move kids into a transformed relationship with Jesus Christ. Lifeway has never produced a VBS resource that is more evangelistic then Agency D3. Beginning with day one the Gospel is clearly presented and kids will be challenged to respond.
Next week, Tour Stop 2: Starter Kits!