YES!

I LOVE VBS! It is my favorite week of the summer! Why? Because...

• It generates excitement in our church family and staff.
• Seeing children worshipping Jesus at 9 a.m. five days in a row is AMAZING!
• Watching high school and college students alongside parents and senior adults teaching children truths from the Bible is what every generation together looks like.
• Children will hear the good news of Jesus Christ and have the opportunity to come to know Him personally.

Vacation Bible School is a wonderful week for your child to come and make new friends as well as strengthen existing friendships as they play and learn together. It creates shared memories for children. The memories will include Biblical truths, Bible verses, and fun had at church with friends.

This year our VBS is set at the International Spy Academy where recruits will come and learn to spy out truths in God Word’s and learn how to apply them to their lives. We will be:

• uncovering counterfeit gods
• finding fingerprints of God in our lives
• collecting clues that lead us the truth of the Gospel
• hot on the trail of Jesus as we learn to follow Him
• cracking the code to find our mission in God’s big story

To register your child for this amazing week, click here.

VBS is our biggest outreach to children here at Shades. We will have over 1000 children here between bed babies and 6th graders and need over 400 volunteers to make it happen!

Serving at VBS is one way for you to live our mission here at Shades by influencing the children who come for Christ. This can be done by playing games in small group, listening to a child tell you what they think about a Bible story or just by giving a child a smile and an encouraging word.