Meeting notes from January VBS Meeting

VBS Planners
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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!