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Faithful God Theme

5/1/2015

 
Our second year of making aDIY VBS, we decided to be more creative and utilized an idea that we had done at church years before with our youth group. Faithful God was born out of this. Below is the information on how we did it.
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2015 VBS Team on Sabbath at Bethel, AK

Lesson Inspiration

Old Testament Men and Women of Faith

More on where their stories are found is below...
Women:
Eve
Rebekah
Naomi
Rahab
Esther
Men:
Noah
Joseph
David
Daniel
Shadrach,Meshach,and Abednego

Schedule- 5 day VBS

  1. Music – 15 min
  2. Memory Verse- 5 min
  3. Arts and crafts-20 min
  4. Lesson part 1- 10-15 min
  5. Activity- 10 min
  6. Lesson part 2-10-15 min
  7. Snack- 5 min (as leaving)

Lessons

Day #1- Even when we make mistakes, God is faithful
Eve- Read Genesis 3 for ideas
​Noah- Read Genesis 6- 8 for ideas

Day #2- When our families aren't perfect, God is faithful
Rebekah- Read Genesis 24 for ideas
Joseph- Read Genesis 37, 39-42 for ideas

Day #3- When we seek God, God is faithful
Naomi- Read the book of Ruth for ideas
David- Read 1 Samuel 17 for ideas 

Day #4-No matter where we are, God is faithful
Rahab- Read Joshua 2 for ideas
Daniel- Read Daniel 6 for ideas

Day #5- When we are in trouble, God is faithful
Esther- Read the book of Esther for ideas
Shadrach, Meschach, and Abednego- Read Daniel 3 for ideas

This year we started to add a daily tagline to learn within the theme. Each  tagline added to the theme for the week.

We also had the kids repeat back to us the tagline: "God is faithful". So by the end of the week we'd say "GOD IS....." and the kids would yell back, "FAITHFUL."

Church time: We added an additional lesson for sabbath school time this year. We did the story of the leper found in Luke 17:11-19. We improvised the script and then performed a song to music to emphasis the story. 

The lessons were done in two parts as shown in the schedule. We'd have the women go first each night and then the men would share. We shared the lesson in a first person monologue complete with costumes. Some examples below. The file below contains all the scripts for the women. Feel free to download and use.

women_of_the_bible.ot.program.pdf
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Memory Verse

Psalms 25:10 - "All the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful toward those who keep the demands of his covenant." - NIV
 
or

Psalms 33:4 - "For the word of the Lord is right and true; he is faithful in all he does."- NIV

Registration

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Registration table
Registration: Name tags as usual. We add stamps for the tags for fun. We also make sure to leave all contact information with the hosting church to do follow up.  

Crafts

Day 1: Rainbow craft 
(from Noah's story)
Supplies needed: Construction paper(all colors), cottonballs, glue, stapler for putting together

Day 2: Rebekah's bucket for drawing from the well (from Rebekah's story)
Supplies needed: Paper cups, crayons, string, hole puncher, popsicle sticks, scissors

Day 3: Grain craft
(from Naomi's story)- link here
Supplies: Construction paper, glue, ribbon, scissors

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Day 4: Lion cup
(from Daniel's story)- link here
Supplies needed: Paper cups, crayons, construction paper, googly eyes, glue, scissors

Day 5: Fiery furnace bag craft
​(from Shadrah, Meschach,and Abegnego)
Supplies needed: Paper bags, construction paper(yellow, red, orange for fire), crayons, glue, print out of Shadrah, Meschach, and Abegnego


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Day 1: Rainbow craft
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Day 2: Rebekah's bucket to draw water from the well
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Day 5: Fiery Furnace bags

Music

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Song practice
Theme song: God is so good

We had two madolins and a guitar player this year. It was tough to come up with a theme song, but this worked well. We taught the kids basic ASL to this song.

For more information our drama group On Fire for Him, click here:
Musical extras:
We are fortunate to have had many years of drama performing to music with our youth group. While not a requirement for you to do this VBS, we encourage you to use creativity and what you have on hand. So, the way we used our talents was to perform a specific song each night about the lesson. Below are some photos. 
On Fire for Him

Goodies and Snacks

Again, we chose to do a goodie bag this year. We used a wide array of items anything from the theme of the evening to generic toys like bouncy balls or crayons. We separate our bags into boys and girls bags for ease of passing them out at the end of the night.  It's also a great way to use up old kids lesson like the guide or primary treasure (which we happened to have had).

Snacks: This year we decided to go with baked goods at the suggestion of one of our team members after feedback from the children that they didn't like the crackers from the previous year. So, cookies and cupcakes it was! Feel free to try your own healthier version. 
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In the kitchen

Activity Time

This year's activity time was led out by our pastor who play fun, creative games with the kids between lessons to get the kids thinking and give them a break before the next lesson.

Decoration

So right about now would be a good time to remind everyone that this is a traveling VBS team. That means not only are we limited by space but also when we fly we are restricted by baggage and weight. This is why you see lightweight items in the themes such as this year, balloons, streamers, and paper decorations. Those of you who have a stationary VBS, can afford the space to make bigger large cutouts and decorations, etc.  

Anyways, the inspiration for this year's theme was Old Testament characters so we created what we called an Old Testament marketplace. The main room was decorated with our theme saying: God is Faithful and each night we'd add a paper copy of the tagline for the night. This was a small way that we could add to decoration each night to make it different without having to add a lot more decoration like we did in a previous theme. Also we decorated the entrance with the mini-theme papers. Down the hallway we had water and boats going into the craft room. And into the craft room we happened to have had Daniel themed decorations that we hung in there. As usual, this is only limited by your imagination in how you decorate for this theme. 

Ta-Dah! A DIY Faithful God VBS

 We hope this has inspired you to try your own version of a DIY VBS Faithful God. We had alot of fun this year with the new stuff we tried. We all personally learned more about God's faithfulness to us which was timeless and invaluable. As always feel free to copy what you see here and enjoy!
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    DIY
    ​Vacation Bible School

    In 2014 the Wrangell VBS team was formed. What began as a mission trip to a remote location on a recommendation of  a friend, has become a yearly event. We have done a VBS in the following locations in Alaska: Bethel, Craig, Ketchikan, and Wrangell.

    This blog is intended to share some of the things that we have learned in creating our own VBS themes over the years. #1 it doesn't require a fancy package. #2 it is not a hard as you think #3 it can be a lot of fun.

    So we hope you enjoy our themes. You might even be inspired to DIY your own VBS. Feel free to use the materials/themes here to create you own VBS program.

    Brooke, Wrangell VBS Team Leader. 

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