Vacation Bible School 2014 Daily Themes

I have so much I want to write about using Vacation Bible School as an outreach ministry on your field of service, whether it be in the States or on the foreign field. I truly believe that as a result of the prayer, sweat, and tears we have put into this part of our ministry, God has blessed and allowed us to see the fruit we have seen during our time here in Russia. I love VBS programs and organizing them can be lots of fun. One major challenge in the planning is figuring out what your theme and lessons will be. It often seems like that is the part of VBS planning that I spend the most time on. Not all ideas you find online will work on every field so most of our themes and lesson plans are developed by us in order to best fit the spiritual needs of the children to whom we minster. Once the theme has been chosen and the daily lessons developed, the rest seems to flow together more smoothly.
I would like to begin sharing our VBS themes/ideas in hopes that it would inspire someone else to be able to put these themes to use in their churches/ministries and see fruit that will remain as a result!

Theme for the Week: Tis' So Sweet to Trust in Jesus

Idea: To have a daily sweet treat to give away at the end of the program.
Goal: To help the children learn more about Jesus and His saving power and grace.

Day 1: Theme: Jesus is the only foundation on which we can build our lives.
Story: Wise Man and Foolish Man
Verses: Matthew 7:24-29
Sweet Treat: 

I don't have a good photo of the kids eating their sweet treat of cotton candy on Monday but you can see the little buckets of cotton candy here in our stack of supplies to take for the first day of VBS.

For each day, our talented daughter made signs which we hung on the registration tables each day so the kids could see what the "sweet treat" was for that day of VBS.


Day 2: Jesus has the power to give sight.
Story: Blind Bartimaeus
Verses: Mark 10:46-52
Sweet Treat:

Chocolate bars!

Day 3: Jesus has the power to give life.
Story: Lazarus
Verses: John 11:1-44
Sweet Treat:

Cupcakes, glorious cupcakes!

I can not tell you how much mileage we get out of cupcakes! My SS kids LOVE my cupcakes!



Day 4: Jesus has the power to forgive sin.
Story: Man with palsy let down through the roof.
Verses: Mark 2:1-12
Sweet Treat:

Bubble Gum!

Day 5: Jesus is the ONLY way to Heaven!
Story: Wide and Narrow Gate
Verses: Matthew 7:13-14, 21-23
Sweet Treat:

Ice cream! It sure was a hot enough day for ice cream! A perfect treat!

 I have yet to post the daily photos from VBS 2014 and plan to do that to give you an even better idea of how the week went. So, watch for those photos coming soon!