VBS 2012

We have had two meetings about VBS 2012. 

View the notes from those meetings here.

• VBS 2012 will be Sunday, July 29 to Wednesday August 1.
• We will meet from 6:00-8:00 p.m. with a worker meal from 5:00-6:00.
• Theme will involve Scooby Doo helpling us along the way as we build faith in our kids.
• Begin a T Shirt/Logo Design right away with a January target for T Shirts for advertising, etc.
• Begin mapping out the main thoughts for curriculum development.
• Start talking in our circles to connect with LTC and build excitement in the church.

Love to have your thoughts and input. Leave a comment!

Guffey Acres Corn Maze - October 7, 2011

Teacher's Meeting

We had a fantastic time with our teachers and children's worship leaders on October 2. It is such a blessing to have so many people who want to love kids one step closer to Jesus!

Go to the Teacher Zone for the Notes

Teacher Zone Notes

Our VBS Lunch

We chose to celebrate and appreciate the many volunteers who helped us with our Vacation Bible School this year. You can get more details on that at the 2011 VBS Recap. A bunch of kids and some awesome adults pitched in to help prepare, serve, and honor our fabulous volunteers. Thanks everyone!

Center Road Kids

I am really blessed with the wonderful children and families we have at Center Road. Our fall classes are now started—and  I can’t wait each week for the kids to arrive. Our children’s worship is also going very well. I am so encouraged by the teachers and children’s worship leaders. We have a few openings for the rest of this year in children’s worship—if you can help out. Here are some other plans in the works for kids (and their parents and leaders) at Center Road.

O Mini Golf, Sunday Afternoon, 9/26. info & signup in cafe

O TEACHERS Lunch—October 2—get updates and give feedback to me in an hour or less...

O Hayride, Sunday Afternoon, 10/16. info & signup in cafe

O Guffey Acres Corn Maze, Friday Evening, 10/7 (note change of date)   info & signup in cafe

O Family Game Night, Saturday Evening, 11/5.  info & signup in cafe

O Winter Wonderland, Sunday Afternoon, 12/4.  info & signup in café

O LTC for kids 3rd-12th Grade will be beginning in the next few weeks. We have several resources for studying Genesis already available.

Be sure to check out the childrens section on the church website. That section is a new site just for the kids ministry at Center Road. Please know that I pray for you. If you have any question, concern, or suggestion—please contact me anytime.

honored to serve with you

VBS Was A Blast!

I would like to invite everyone who helped with VBS in any way, as well as those helping with children’s Bible classes or children’s worship—to lunch on September 11. We’ll have chili and soup—and such. I would like to get feedback on things that went well at VBS as well as things we need to take a look at for next year.   Rusty

Email me to let me know you can come!

vbs 2011 slide show from Rusty Maynard on Vimeo.

We have a lot to celebrate this week. Our VBS was well received by a host of people. I have gotten lots of encouragement from church member and non-church member alike… So great job Center Road!  Attendance was as follows:

O Sunday—91 students and 35 adults, plus approx 65 workers.

O Monday — 100 students and 32 adults, plus approx 65 workers.

O Tuesday — 90 students and 22 adults, plus approx 65 workers.

O Wednesday — we didn’t take role—but the place was full and “alive”.

Center Road is blessed with an army with serving hearts.  We said over and over that no person’s help or contribution to the effort was unimportant. I want to dedicate the rest of this article to acknowledging them. I’ll try not to, but if I happen to miss someone, I’ll correct it in the future.  I’m glad to say that I saw a bunch of “gooey” people this week — and that’s a good thing.

Teachers.

O Nursery—Kathy Simpson, Ariel Simpson, Laura Wiley.

O 2's/3's - Tracy Shaffer. Helpers are Melissa Wiley, Shawnda Schulessler, and Kelsie Gee.

O 4's/5s  - Melody Ayres & Kim McNeill. Helpers are Erin Hasler and Sarah Wagner.

O Kindergarten - Andrea Simpson, Laura Wavra, Linda Wentz, (Pat Hasler). Also,  Fletcher Miller Helped in class.

O 1st/2nd Grade - Nicole Lockridge. Helpers: Jane Millspaugh, Carla Alford, Janyce Forehand,  and Tyler Lockridge and Logan Maynard.

O 3rd/4th Grade - Dean & Susan Melcher and Bonny Peterson.

O Teen Group (5th Grade and Up) - Doug Wiley and  Tony Ayres, Heather Caprio Helper.

O Adults - Walt McIndoo, Mike Forehand, Lynn Brust.

Drama. The Incredibles and our Bible characters taught us about following Jesus just like Paul. Kimberly Maynard Coordinated this effort. Cast: Erica Melcher (Edna Mode), Jonathan Wagner (Mr. Incredible), Erin Hasler (Elastigirl), Sarah Wagner (Violet), Logan Maynard (Dash), Paul (Brett McNeill), Silas (Alan Edwards), and Bible Characters—Kelsie Gee, Spencer Gee, Kaleigh Atchley, Molly Peterson, Austin Maynard, Timothy Lockridge, and our narrator—Dylan Maynard. Paul Bauer practiced when he could.

Crafts / Activities. Robin Helm coordinated with the help of Troy Helm, Bev Carey, Diana Bauer, Dee Young, Janine Harless, Kelly Bowman & Christy Stiner. Also helpers Dakota Helm, Matthew Jackson, and Timothy Lockridge.

Experiments / Teen Devo. Tom Peterson did incredible experiments to show the kids how neat God is. He also lead the teen devotionals—and other stuff.

T Shirts. Our church was fantastic to purchase the pre-T Shirt and which also allowed us to provide the kids a T Shirt. Robin Helm coordinated and organized. Madeyln Wiley-Miles designed the cross logo.

Registration. Everyone did a fantastic job bringing friends and getting the forms taken care of our. Our  own Penny Rossini did a great job managing registration. Thanks also to Mark & Courtney Wagner.

Food. Worker meal coordinated by Melissa Wiley. Also,  Bob & Faith Peterson, Ed & Joyce West, Donna Kline, Shirley Stockton, BerthaGates, Melody Ayres. Snacks: Judy Black & Beth Ann Leonard, Patt Bragg & Susan Hewitt, Lisa Wagner,  Bev Carey, John & Kathy Gee. Ice Cream Social: Faith Peterson, Judy Black, Kimberly Maynard and a bunch of others… NOT TO MENTION ALL THE COOKIES, ICE CREAM AND SNACKS THAT YOU PROVIDED.

Transportation. Jan Keller headed up our transportation effort with the help of Bob Peterson, Brett McNeill, Kimberly Maynard, Erica Melcher.

Puppets.  Our puppet teams did a great job. Molly Peterson, Jamie Edwards, Kelly Edwards, Faith Miller, Peggi Miller, Jason Edwards, Timothy Lockridge, Logan Maynard, Dylan Maynard, & Tyler Lockridge.

Audio Visual. Michael Allen did a good job coordinating our A/V this week. Dean Hasler and Kevin Sagarsee helped when they could.

Other Important Stuff:

O Moral Support. Our brother Rich Rossini was with us in heart, and he loves VBS—even though he was not feeling well enough to join us.

O Prizes—Cindy Kady picked out and ordered our prizes for the prize patrol.

O Posters—A bunch of the kids gathered at various times to help us make the posters you still see around. I can remember: Jaime, Kelly, and Jason Edwards, Hannah & Ariel & Rebekah Werner, Maynard boys, Mindy Peterson, Aidan Belt.

O Other help—Matt Jackson and Ethan Belt. Heather Caprio helped with photography. Fletcher Miller and Austin Maynard moved stuff for us for the skits.

Hummmm… not sure that’s everyone.  I’ll work on it some more later. Thank you all for your incredible gift of serving God!
May GOD BE PRAISED!!

Be Incredible!

We can’t wait for Vacation Bible School! We hope that everyone enjoys and benefits from the week. God Makes Us Incredible… we are more than conquerors. Our focus will be on the life of Paul—Paul was so Incredible, and God made him that way. He will make us Incredible too. Inside there is a piece especially for teens, but we are hoping a lot of people will step up to help us out. VBS is July 31 to August 3, from 6pm to 8pm each evening. We’re counting on the evening time helping families with day shift workers.  Here is a brief explanation of what we asking you to do.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR VBS NOW

Teacher Staffing

Several have stepped up to help teach… and we need people to help out. Anyone who can help us out, please put your name there… or make corrections… this is certainly a work in progress. Topics are chosen and ready to go.

Craft Preparation

Our Crafts/Activities Team will need a hand getting some crafts and activities ready. We truly appreciate volunteers in this department.

Craft/Activities

We have built in a time each evening of class for students to have an activity/craft to reinforce what they are learning. Tell us when you can help out.

Snacks For Each Evening

Each evening we need a leader—and helpers to dish out snacks. This can be different people for different days. You tell us...

Social on Wednesday Evening

Our last night of VBS will be an INCREDIBLE social for kids, parents, and the congregation. We need help getting that figured out.

Worker Meals

VBS starts about the time dinner is for a lot of people, so we are going to have a light meal each evening before VBS for our Volunteer Staff and Family. Melissa Wiley has volunteered to lead this, so pitch in to help her out.

Additional Items

• Taking pictures is a vital part of our celebration with the kids. We’ll have a slide show during the social on Wednesday evening. We need lots of picts.
• Fast fingers. People who can take and help slap together video in a hurry.
• Greeters. Our greeters will be helpers to Penny Rossini, who will be in the Lobby at VBS Central. You’ll help with security as well.

More to Come...

Take a look a t the board in the Lobby… and stay tuned for more info! 

Incredible Teens

We are very proud of our teen group at Center Road.  Everyone did a fantastic job honoring our incredible seniors last week!

CLICK HERE  To Register for VBS

In addition to fantastic summer plans, our teens provide a very important part of our VBS. Teens help many ways, especially in the classroom, but not just there. So, here’s the plan so far.

YES (I’ve been asked if teens are helping) - YES is the answer. If you can help us out, please sign up on the board in the Lobby, especially in the area of classes.

End of Each Evening. There is time allotted for our teens to lead a devo/mixer at the end of each evening for 3rd Grade and Older. Why?

Cause teens are awesomely gooey… in a good way! It’s a chance for you to use your gifts from God to let other people “stick to you” and see Jesus.  Why should a young person come back to Center Road, if they are visiting with us?  You are a super billboard.

Ongoing Activity.  7th Grade can choose to attend class. Also, I hope that we can have an ongoing activity that provides a place for teens to connect when they aren’t busy helping.

Most of all, please pray that God uses us incredibly for Him… we want to love people one step closer to Jesus… and our teens are a huge part of that!

May 15 Meeting

We had a fantastic meeting on  May 15. You can view the notes and the papers we handed out when you click here:      VBS May 15 Meeting.

Love to hear from you.

Feel free to comment below with your thoughts. Nothing is unimportant!

You can also send a message to our facebook group.

or contact me, Rusty Maynard.

VBS Meeting Notes from February 9, 2011

We met last Wednesday evening to talk about VBS. One of the goals of the meeting was to discuss Bible Stories that would help illustrate the God Makes Me Incredible: How God changes us into what He wants us to be. One of our younger team members, Mindy Peterson had a great suggestion: how about Saul of Tarsus changing to the Apostle Paul. Then we were off and Running!  We decided to focus on the Life of Paul for this VBS - since God really did make him Incredible. Here is a further breakdown of our discussion.

• Sunday, July 31.  Saul of Tarsus went from persecuting followers of Jesus to teaching people to follow Jesus, and boldly. We can also talk about the Gospel, how then Saul obeyed Jesus and was baptized into Christ. We also  talked about Paul putting on the Christian Armor.

• Monday,  August 1. Paul Travels. We can use the "vikings" idea - boats at sea and how Paul traveled on Roman boats. Another thought was when Paul departed the Ship in Malta and the poisonous snake bit him - but had not effect on him. Paul was  a courageous traveler - but as a prisoner - because he was brave enough to teach people about Jesus, no matter the cost. And he saw opportunity no matter what his circumstances.

• Tuesday, August 2. Paul is not afraid to speak for Jesus, even when he was in dangerous prisons. There are several prison illustrations from Paul's Life. The one we talked about most was the Acts 16 story of the Philippian Jailer - when Paul could have escaped, but didn't and so many became Christians because of his willingness.  Paul was content to in be Jail for Jesus - he was not in jail for doing wrong - just for talking about Jesus. 

• Wednesday, August 3. Will be a mixer - possibly a meal or an ice cream social with a brief program highlighting our week. The main goal is to encourage the kids and get  to know their parents.

We brainstormed some people in addition to the normal workers we hope will be able to help us this year. Alicia C., Matt & Laura W., Mike & Peggi M., Doug & Melissa W., Vince & Shannon S., Richie & Tiffany M., Rob & Sherrye D., Tracy & Tammy M., Troy & Robin H., Dean & Susan M., Ross & Stacy S., Kent & Traci H., Tony & Melody A., Butch & Pam S., and others.

Other  concerns are T Shirts.  Rusty wants to print T shirts now that tie in LTC and VBS to advertise. There are some hangups with taking this approach.  One of them is that we would have to sell several of them to make the math work. We took it to consider.

Other items we need to work on:

• Meal for WORKERS - it will be difficult to get kids fed and to VBS on time - so we hope to find help to provide a light meal for the worker bees each evening.
• The Wednesday plan needs to be worked out.
• We need to adjust the schedule because the time frame is 2 hours, rather than 2 1/2 hours. One suggestion was to do more "teaching" during the skits that teachers can build on to reinforce.
• Tracy S. volunteered to teach 2's/3's.

Next meeting is March 2, 6:00-6:45, Room 100.

Update Run In Window About VBS

VBS Plans

We are still working on the plans… but our VBS is shaping up to be another wonderful VBS event. Here are some highlights.

Theme. The Theme is “God Makes Me Incredible”. Two Reasons.

• First, Incredibles 2 is due out next Summer—so theme will automatically be on kids’ minds—as well as mine and several other adults I’ve talked to.
• Second, LTC Connection. This is a dream come true for me. God makes us Incredible, and we are More Than Conquerors! This year, we are asking our LTC Coaches and Participants to plan to use their projects in our VBS! Not only are our kids being encouraged to lead by LTC, they have the opportunity to share the Gospel right here in our community. Yeah, pretty stoked about that...

Date. The date is Sunday, July 31 through Wednesday, August 3. The time is 6-8 in the evening.

• We are starting on Sunday evening for three evenings of VBS program and instruction. Wednesday will consist of a Mixer for everyone and a Short VBS Program.
• We are trying the evening time slot, to allow people who work during the day to help us without taking vacation time, which is getting to be a premium. We want this to be a CHURCH WIDE event… So, please make plans to help.
• Got teacher anxiety about prep? We have blocked the building the entire weekend before VBS to allow for prep.
• This should be well before school starts… and still give time for a breather before the school year.

Help Us. Ways to get involved:

• Pray. Please pray. More than anything, we want God to take what we see as a unique opportunity and use it for HIS good.
• Planning. Our next planning meeting is Wednesday, Feb 2, 6:00-6:45. We’ll have to run a tight agenda to honor everyone’s time. Anyone welcome to join us.
• Ideas. I welcome ANY ideas. We want to include every ministry that we can in this effort. Contact me anytime.
• People. Start talking about this with friends, neighbors, and relatives. Excitement is contagious. We’ll get some literature put together soon, but this page is a good start.
• Willingness. Every year you prepare crafts, classes, snacks, provide rides, and give us lots of smiles… keep ’em coming!

Meeting notes from January VBS Meeting

VBS Planners
This page is especially for people helping plan and lead VBS 2011. You can contact Rusty Maynard or send and email to everyone helping when you send to vbsplanners@centerandpark.org This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

NOTES from our Last Meeting (emailed to everyone who came and/or Rusty could think of)
I appreciate the wonderful group that met with me Sunday about Vacation Bible School and Teacher Update.
In this message (and also posted at centerandparkorg, look for the "God Makes Me Incredible" button)

I apologize if you get multiple copies of this - I'm working on that - but it's challenging to keep all the lists straight. I appreciate your patience.

• Update to All Teachers
• Date and Time for Vacation Bible School
• Theme for Vacation Bible School
• Our next meeting to work on VBS (February 2, 6  p in room 100)

Update to All Teachers

• Mark April 30 on your calendar, which is a Saturday. We are having a special workshop for teachers and anyone interested in working with our kids. We have a guest coming from IUK to work with us and we will also offer some other training - so please mark the date. Click here for more info on the workshop.
• We are continuing to work on our curriculum filing and planning. More to come.
• LTC is underway. We changed the Bible Class teaching event so that students actually teach under a teacher - and tour the resource room, rather than just video a class. Please help students with this effort.
• Our children's ministry is growing, we had a record crowd last Wed night.

Date and Time for Vacation Bible School

• We wrestled with this issue for a while. Since more and more couples are both working, we think we need to adjust our time of day to allow more couples, especially our men folk to help mentor our children and especially children who don't have a male role model.
• We did some checking to eliminate doubling up as much as possible and set the date and time.
• Date: Sunday Night (July 31) through Wednesday Night (August 3)***
• Time: 6 p to 8 p each evening, except Wed may be shorter.

***Wednesday evening will be a celebration & short program - a mixer of sorts - NOT another night to teach!!  :-)
***Also, since we are starting on Sunday night, we blocked out the calendar for the entire weekend right before VBS to allow for easier prep and set up - this is to avoid anything being scheduled in the building to inhibit prep for VBS.

Theme for Vacation Bible School

• We want for LTC projects to be used in our VBS this year - we see a lot of benefit in this for everyone.
• Also, the Incredibles 2 movie is coming out this summer - Which I can't wait to see - LOVE that movie - this will help our publicity.
• We settled on:

God Makes Me INCREDIBLE
(more than conquerors)

The idea is that it is by following God's Word that we are more than what we can ever be on our own. I think this is very exciting!!!

Our next meeting to work on VBS (February 9, 6  p in room 100)

• Time passed quickly, so we agreed to take this info to pray and think about how we can make it work. We need to think about:
• Classes on Bible Stories we can use for the various ages.
• Rethink our rotation schedule to fit the Time  Frame.
• Think of PEOPLE who can help us.
• Added by Rusty: In addition to LTC, I would like to see how Scouts or SLS or Golden Agers - or other ministries can be visibly involved- or represented - to encourage those works.
• We have allotted 45 minutes for our next meeting -- and we will have to stick to our agenda.
• We did not discuss super sundae Saturday yet, for time sake.

Request of You

• Please Pray about this opportunity.
• Mark your calendars so your family can participate and help out.
• PLEASE SEND THOUGHTS, SUGGESTIONS, IDEAS, CONCERNS to  me ( rustym@centerandpark.org This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).

I praise God for YOU!   I can't wait to see what God does with this effort!