Praying Over Your VBS

Have you been praying steadfastly for your VBS?

We want our VBS to be amazing. We want kids to register for VBS and respond to the gospel message. We want to see boys and girls having fun, volunteer roles filled, new families joining our churches, and discipleship happening in the hearts of the boys and girls. We want all of those wonderful (and worthwhile) things to happen at VBS.

Since God is sovereign, why would we not steadfastly and intentionally pray for our VBS?

Thankfully, those things aren’t up to us. What happens in the hearts of boys and girls isn’t up to us. God is the one who changes hearts and turns them towards him. He knows which child needs to be at your VBS and what volunteer needs to say that specific thing to that specific child. God knows what families need to be reached and what the fruit of our service will yield. Since God is sovereign, why would we not steadfastly and intentionally pray for our VBS?

Pray for:

• Volunteers to sign up
• Children to register
• The health of the leaders
• Finances and supplies
• Children’s boldness to invite their friends
• Preparations
• The seeds being planted
• Lesson times
• The work God has already begun in hearts
• The work God will continue to do after VBS
• God to use your church
• God to speak through volunteers
• Safety
• An outpouring of God’s love
• The families represented
• Energy levels
• Fun
• God’s will to be done

Don’t let praying for your VBS be an afterthought. Be intentional with it!

• Have a prayer coordinator.
• Have a prayer team.
• Use social media to give specific prayer prompts leading up to and during VBS.
• Ask Sunday school classes and small groups to pray.
• Have church members intentionally pray for a child who is attending.
• Send out prayer calendars leading up to VBS to your church family.
• Make a prayer board with the names of volunteers and ask your congregation to take a name and pray for that leader.
• Share your VBS prayer requests at staff meetings and with leaders.
• Kick off each day of VBS with prayer, and end with prayer as the last thing boys and girls hear before going home.

Pray for your VBS.

Enlist others to pray with you.

Pray continually and intentionally.

As believers, we can approach God with confidence, knowing that He hears our prayers (Jeremiah 29:12), will answer our prayers (Jeremiah 33:3), and knows even what we need better than we do (Romans 8:26). So, what are you waiting for? Pray first and pray often.