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I Love Vacation Bible School … Teachers!
As I write this, we are preparing for our annual VBS work night. While our teachers can work for several days before our Vacation Bible School begins, we always have one night when we open up our building and ask as many as can attend to come and help with some of the “larger” or more time-consuming projects that are necessary to make a room really attractive. I am writing this sentence at 1:47PM. Our work night starts at 5:30. So, why am I sharing this? Because almost half of our teachers are already here, and have been for some time. In fact, several were here yesterday, some for around…
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5 Inexpensive Ways to Promote Events
Nearly every congregation has “special” events (as if Sunday worship isn’t special!). At Lebanon Road, we have a Vacation Bible School each summer, and we are holding a Gospel Meeting in late September. One of the challenges that a congregation gives is to invite friends and neighbors to these events. That’s a great challenge, but do we help? We need to give congregations the tools to promote events. Most congregations make flyers to hang in stores or to canvas certain neighborhoods with. Those are fine, but they must be well done. If you do a poor job with advertising, you are hurting your results instead of helping. So, here some…
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9 Steps to a Successful “Special Event”
Nearly every congregation plans special events. These are usually things like Vacation Bible Schools, Gospel Meetings, youth rallies, or other events. Sometimes, we have these events “just because we always have,” and then we wonder why things don’t go the way we would like. Recently, I was listening to a lesson from Mike Winkler from this year’s Polishing the Pulpit on planning a successful Gospel Meeting. While most of what he said were things that I knew, hearing them in one lesson was very helpful, and a much-needed reminder. His thoughts are reflected in much of today’s list, too. Here are some things you can implement, no matter the size…
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Summer Series #2: “VBS Memories” by Christina Gillim
[This is the second installment in our summer series. Each post is written by college students who are spending their summers working for the Lord and not on vacation.] Today’s post is written by Christina Gillim. She has a site on Tumblr that you can read here. Enjoy her post! ————————————– So a couple of weeks ago we had VBS at my home congregation and it was so much fun! I helped with crafts so I actually wasn’t able to watch the kids sing, which is my favorite part, but that’s ok. I was encouraged by them in other ways. 🙂 Seeing the kids get so excited about God truly…
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7 VBS Memories and 13 Posters
Earlier this year, Lebanon Road held a Ministry Fair, where we encouraged every member to see all the areas of work in which we are involved and to indicate areas in which they would help. I was one of the folks who helped with the exhibit for Vacation Bible School. We were able to get several folks to see just how much work it takes for us to put on VBS each year. As part of our exhibit, we asked folks of all ages to share their memories or “favorite things” about VBS. Seven responded and we used them on some posters, among many pictures of past Vacation Bible Schools.…
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I Love Church Vans!
Sunday and Monday nights, I got to continue an odd “love” I have. We were at the Area-Wide Gospel Meeting in Paducah and, as we walked up to the Carson Center (a performing arts building), there were lots of church vans in the parking lot. When I see that many church vans, I read the names of every one I see. I saw vans from Fulton, Kentucky; Dexter, Missouri; Paducah; and many other places. Whenever we host something at Lebanon Road–and when we used to host things like our youth rally at 9th Avenue–it was my tradition to walk around the parking lot and look at all the congregation’s vans…
