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.