DOWNTOWN VBS!!!

Downtown VBS!
Vacation Bible School will be June 25-28. Our theme is “Avalanche Ranch: A wild ride through God’s word.” We are sharing VBS with 2nd Congregational United Church of Christ, Emmanuel Episcopal Church, and First Presbyterian Church. We will be rotating buildings throughout the week. We need 2-3 members from each church to join the steering committee for Downtown VBS, and then of course we’ll need volunteers for OUR day. Court Street’s Day will be Thursday, June 28. We get the last day! We really want to show off our Court Street PRIDE! We need the following volunteers:
Before VBS:
Registration helpers: We need volunteers to help go through the pre-registrations and keep all of the things organized.
Aritists: we need some large cut outs and such of the characters.
General volunteers for the days before to prep our building.
Decorators to make every station look great!
Givers! Financial support of this program would be greatly appreciated.
For All 4 Days:
2-3 (or more) volunteers to be Ranchers (group shepherds). Group shepherds don’t have to do any preparation for activities, they are just there to guide their group from rotation to rotation and help the various rotation leaders.
Junior Ranchers: these are youth aged 6th grade and up who will assist the Ranchers.
For Thursday, June 28:
Wild Bible Adventures Leader (This is the bible story leader.) The scripture for the day is Mark 15-16 and Psalm 47:2. The bible point is “God is Awesome”. This is the day the children learn about the crucifixion and resurrection.
Operation Kid to Kid Leader: This is a project where the children stuff bears to be sent to children in Africa and South America. This is a project where our children really get a chance to reach out to others.
Cowpoke Crafts leader: This will be a craft that the children make. You will not have to come up with the craft idea. The craft, all the supplies, instructions…everything will be provided for you!
Chadder’s Wild West Theatre Leader: This is a lesson that has a movie and an activity. Children get to meet with “Chadder” the chipmunk and learn more about the bible verse of the day!
Chuck Wagon Chow Leader: Chuck Wagon Chow is a snack time where the kids create a fun snack and then eat it. We will likely need 2 leaders for this to help with the creations. The Snack for the day is “awesome avalanche surprise” and is basically a pre-packaged cup of vanilla ice cream with crushed oreos.
Horseplay Games Leader: This is recreation time and there are games! This will take place in our gym and should be great fun. 2 leaders might be needed for this group as well! You don’t have to invent the games, but feel free to add creative games if you want to!
Sing and Play Stampede helpers: Rob will be leading the music, of course, but he will need helpers! If you like to sing and help children learn songs, this is where we need you!
Lunch Crew: I need a group of people to plan, create, and serve lunch to our children. This does not need to be a fancy lunch. Hot dogs, burgers, sandwiches, even pizza…anything would be fine.
Show time roundup leader: This is the end of the day activity for the children and is a worship/celebration service reviewing the points of the day.
Photographer: Someone will need to take pictures throughout the day. We need specific pictures that will be used in the Showtime Roundup, but we also want a lot of really great pictures for future use here at the church.
All volunteers will be asked to attend a one-time, short training session where you will meet the volunteers from the other churches and receive basic training for the VBS. This will take place Wednesday, May 23 at 6pm at 2nd congregational. Everyone is asked to bring a dish to “pitch in” for the meal.

Please contact Becca ASAP if you are willing to help with any of the above activities! Thanks in advance for your support of Downtown VBS!