Banner Update

I dropped off the VBS Banner (that will be posted at the corner of Firetower and Redland roads) at Luckie Graphics to get the dates changed. I also found the larger "Welcome to VBS at the Mulder Church" banner that had been missing for awhile. I happened to mention to Barb at the church office that I couldn't find it. She said, "Hmmm...I wonder if it is that banner that had been in the conference room. It's in the worship closet...here's my keys." Sure enough, it was the missing banner. Praise the Lord! I will be ordering one smaller outdoors banner from Group that we will put out front until VBS begins, then move inside to use as part of the stage decor.

Planning Meeting

A group of eleven wonderful women showed up for our planning meeting this afternoon. We met in our new conference room. If you have not had the opportunity to check out the new digs upstairs, make sure to stop by soon. It was such a nice, comfortable environment to brainstorm some ideas for Power Lab.

We had a consensus to drop the Games station this year in order to include the Cinema Science (Chadder) station. There are so many positive reasons for holding our VBS in the evenings, but one thing that is not so great is that our time is more limited than if we held it during the day. We have to cut out much of the curriculum to trim it down to fit in a two hour session.

I also shared with those who attended that we are planning for, gulp, 225 K-5th graders and 75 preschoolers. I think Anne Payne may have swallowed her gum with that last part;)

Shirts

This is kind of scary. I ordered 359 shirts today.

Last year we ordered white shirts to keep our costs down and spent around $1400. I have heard from many folks from other churches who are amazed that we give away our VBS shirts. Most everyone else charges for their shirts. . I have been a little nervous about ordering shirts, because I knew we were going to have to almost double our t-shirt order.

We got our shirts from Luckie Graphics here in Wetumpka last year because I decided we should support local businesses instead of going to Montgomery. The owner was wonderful to work with last year...a real gem. Last week I drove by their shop and saw a sign out front that made me cringe: New Owner, Under New Management. Ruh-roh, I thought. There goes our deal on changing out our dates on our banners. After a few days, I decided to stop by and check them out.

Then, God got my attention and reminded me just how great he is.

The new owner, Susan Guy, was a peppy, sweet Christian woman who informed me that the Lord brought this business to her and that, for ministries, she only charges her cost.

Our shirts are going to be great. They will be lime green with a 5-color picture of the Power Lab graphic (as shown on right) on the front, along with our church information. We will get this all for less than $2000.

Yay, God!

new blog

I saw where another church blogged about their preparations for VBS and thought, "I can do that!". And, so, voila!