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Advice From the Experts: Choosing VBS Curriculum
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 Dr. Diane Lane, Preschool and Children’s Specialist, Baptist General Convention of Texas. You are looking for Vacation Bible School curriculum and it looks good—bright colors and childish– but is…
Advice From the Experts – Using BKC to Reach Your Community
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 Vicki Hulsey, Childhood Education Specialist, Tennessee Baptist Convention. Vicki helped develop, test, and train others to use Lifeway’s Backyard Kids Club resources. Acts 1:8 teaches that we are to…
Take Time to Tell Your VBS Story
We spend weeks, if not months, pleading with the congregation to volunteer, to donate craft supplies and snacks, and to invite neighbors and friends. We put announcements in the bulletin and newsletter, cajole from the pulpit, and decorate the walls with posters. We perform skits, project videos, and hold pre-event enlistment and registration events. All…
Advice From the Experts – Working with Preschoolers in VBS
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 Arizona’s own Kelli McAnally who writes and trains extensively for Lifeway’s VBS resources. Start simple. Whether teaching a Bible phrase or motions to a song, start with the basics…