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The document discusses strategies for churches to hold Vacation Bible School (VBS) during the COVID-19 pandemic, including hosting smaller neighborhood VBS events, holding VBS over several evenings or weekends instead of a full week, creating virtual at-home VBS options, and providing support and resources from the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions. It also introduces the summer missionaries serving in the Montgomery area and provides their contact information for churches interested in assistance with VBS planning, community outreach programs, or social media support.

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20 05 14 Montgomery Assoc Color

The document discusses strategies for churches to hold Vacation Bible School (VBS) during the COVID-19 pandemic, including hosting smaller neighborhood VBS events, holding VBS over several evenings or weekends instead of a full week, creating virtual at-home VBS options, and providing support and resources from the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions. It also introduces the summer missionaries serving in the Montgomery area and provides their contact information for churches interested in assistance with VBS planning, community outreach programs, or social media support.

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♦M 14, 2020

Montgomery Bap st Priori es:


The Gospel Above All / The Plan ng and Replan ng of Churches for All People / The Sending of Missionaries to the Ends of the Earth

If your church missed our annual MBA VBS


VBS in the COVID-19 Season training in March or if you need to brush up on
Did you know that the first recorded VBS happened in a beer hall in LifeWay’s Concrete and Cranes, virtual training
1898 when Mrs. Walker Aylett Hawes hosted children for her is available on Facebook at VBS AL: Tips &
Everyday Bible School in New York City? For over 100 years, lives Training or on the kids’ ministry website
have been changed for eternity through VBS. If this was any other sponsored by the Alabama Baptist State Board of
May, your church VBS team would most likely be deeply involved Missions: https://kidzlinkal.org/vbs/. Even if you
in planning, preparing, and organizing Vacation Bible School for the do not use LifeWay’s VBS curriculum, you can
families in your community. But this May isn’t like any other May find six video sessions containing general
and we are all still working hard to navigate our new normal by principles for a successful VBS. Our VBS
staying healthy and safe through masks, gloves, and social promoter for Alabama is ALSBOM State
distancing. Thankfully, safer at home does not mean that your church Missionary Patty Burns. You can reach her at
has to cancel VBS in our city. In fact, now is the perfect time for [email protected] and she would be glad to Jennifer Blair Foster
your church to impact children and adults with the gospel. No matter talk with your church about adapting VBS. MBA VBS Director
the challenges, no matter the innovations…VBS is still most If your church has not hosted a VBS in recent
definitely worth it! years, now is the perfect time to begin small to have a large impact
In 4 VBS Strategies for the Summer, LifeWay Kids shares four VBS for eternity. LifeWay’s Go and Tell Kids ($44.99) and Backyard Kids
possibilities for your church. First, traditional VBS can still be held Club ($49.99) are two all-inclusive pieces that any size church can
in some churches. Be sure to follow the gathering guidelines offered use to share the gospel with kids.
by the Alabama Depart of Public Health. You might change an early Every church can host VBS this summer. It might look different. It
VBS date to one later in the summer. Second, consider hosting a might be smaller. It might be off-campus. It might be virtual. It might
neighborhood VBS. Find host locations in the neighborhoods near be at a later date. It might have a combination of strategies. Reaching
your church. Send small teams of VBS leaders to each site to teach a men and women, boys and girls with the gospel of Jesus Christ is
small number of children. Third, offer VBS at an alternative time worth our best thinking and our best efforts. VBS is worth it because
such as Labor Day weekend or fall break. You could also have VBS eternity is worth it!
during five Sunday or Wednesday evenings this summer instead of
your regular programs. Fourth, create a VBS at Home option for If I can assist your church in planning VBS or in hosting VBS for the
families. Use digital media to present VBS content to families in first time, please do not hesitate to contact me.
their homes. A virtual VBS experience is particularly helpful if it is Jennifer Blair Foster
not safe to meet in groups. The 4 VBS Strategies for the Summer is Minister to Women and Children / Heritage Baptist Church
available for free download at vbs.lifeway.com and includes specific Associational VBS Director / Montgomery Baptist Association
steps for implementing each strategy as well as adapting the [email protected]
Concrete and Cranes curriculum for each environment.

Welcome, Summer Missionaries!


Our summer missionaries will serve the River Region from May 1 to June 30 as teams through Love Loud Montgomery, Love Loud Lowndes County, and the
Rolling Grocery Store. They will also partner with our MBA churches to feed their communities and strengthen social media strategies. Contact Savannah Barber if
you would like their help with the Rolling Grocery Store at 334-640-5994 or for technology support, contact Robin Crowe at 334-462-7135.

Jack Yohn Jackson Cole


Heritage Flatline

Pictured left to right: Jake Dillon, Gateway; Christiana Hannam, Fresh Anointing; Stella Burton, Gateway; Angelina Walker,
Gateway; Whitney Morgan, Heritage; Brianna Spiers, Heritage; and Ty Grant, Eastern Oaks. Savannah’s team is learning new and
safer skills for Backyard Bible Clubs.
Montgomery Baptist Association • 20 Interstate Park Dr. • Montgomery, Alabama 36109 • 334-271-6227 • www.mgmbaptists.org
This publication is made possible by your churches’ contributions to Associational Missions.

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