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From the Archives: Follow-Up Actions That Work
We asked VBS leaders from each state to tell us about follow-up actions that work. Here are a few of their suggestions: Enlist a Follow-up Leader at the same time you are enlisting other VBS team leaders and department directors. Include follow-up as a part of overall VBS planning and preparation, conveying at every opportunity…
From the Archives: Moving VBS Participants to Sunday School
Sadly far too many churches fail to make follow-up a VBS priority and therefore never see the true benefits of their efforts. They invite the unchurched to VBS but they just don’t know what to do with them afterwards. Follow-up doesn’t happen automatically. The most effect way to capitalize on this yearly harvest of…
Advice from the Experts: Reaching Families for VBS When Your Church is Outside the Bible Belt
The best VBS leaders are learners, and the best learners enjoy sharing with others what they have learned through trial and error. Today’s advice comes from Leigh Ann Stark, Childhood Ministry Specialist, Northwest Baptist Convention. Reaching families in communities without churches on every corner means building relationships, defining events and creating a buzz that makes…
From the Archives: Planning for VBS Follow-Up
As we all know too well, VBS follow-up or continued connections does not automatically happen just because we hope or assume it will. Over the past few years the blog has included multiple posts on the importance of being intentional about follow-up. Connections begin during VBS and it is our responsibility to insure those connections…