VBS Blog

Do you welcome parents of visiting children to stay with their child for VBS? If so, how do you address child-safety concerns?

How can your VBS get through the hectic check-in and checkout times smoothly?

We’re excited to announce the 2019 Answers VBS theme is . . . The Incredible Race: Exploring God’s Love for the Nations.

You can enter our Answers VBS 2019 Giveaway contest every day through Sunday, June 3, 2018, for your opportunity to win prizes.

We’re excited that through Answers VBS we can partner with Children’s Hunger Fund (CHF). This ministry feeds people around the world in Christ’s name.

Due to sensory processing issues, some children can’t handle the overload that VBS brings to their senses. Some churches host a special sensory-friendly VBS.

To help you prepare, we’ve collected questions VBS leaders ask, such as “What is the easiest way to get the glue off the soup cans for the pencil holders?”

For one of the crafts in Time Lab, you’ll need containers for time capsules the kids will decorate, fill, and take home to hide and open in a few years.

On our Answers VBS Discussion Group, VBS leaders, teachers, and volunteers have shared their Time Lab décor finds to help others get started.

Through the Answers VBS partnership with Children’s Hunger Fund, your kids can help meet the physical and spiritual needs of underprivileged children.

Encourage your kids to bring in quarters for CHF to help provide meals for people in the areas affected by Hurricane Harvey.

Through this article from Children’s Hunger Fund, VBS Directors and parents can learn more about Food Paks and the impact they are making.

We’ve been counting down the minutes, and it’s finally time to announce the 2018 Answers Vacation Bible School program!

Beginning May 22, 2017, you can enter our Answers VBS 2018 Giveaway every day through Sunday, June 4, 2017, for your opportunity to win one of three prizes!

Each day of VBS, a video introduces a child in need of physical and spiritual help. Here is one way that God is using CHF to reach people for Him.

Lynda Freeman, the curriculum reviewer of About the Children’s Department, selected Answers VBS Operation Arctic as her “Top Pick for VBS” for 2017.

Village Missions has started a program called Reach 19, and is partnering with Answers VBS to provide Vacation Bible School programs for rural communities.

You can get a free sneak peek of our 2017 Vacation Bible School, Operation Arctic, in the Creation Museum’s Discovery Hall on January 27 or 28, 2017.

What if everything you were looking for was packed into one solid VBS curriculum? We think Answers VBS can make 2017 your best VBS ever.

Whether you are starting to explore VBS or have thought about starting a program for a while, we hope this blog answers some of your questions and concerns.

VBS music can leave a lasting impression on children. Even months after VBS has finished, many of them will still remember the words to the songs.

Have you ordered your 2017 VBS kit yet? All of the PDF guides are now online, so you can start planning your week of Operation Arctic.

With VBS coming to a close, now is the perfect time to think about what went well and what could have gone better.

Regardless of what your particular role is, you’re ministering. You’re sharing the news of Jesus Christ to kids that will be called the saints in His kingdom.