Come on out and help on Tuesday

Do not forget that this coming Tuesday, June 3, we will be meeting at the church to work on decorations from 9 am - noon. Meet downstairs in the nursery area. Tuesday is also voting day, so be prepared for a full parking lot. Just enter through the downstairs doors and head through the double doors on your left into the nursery hallway. Just listen for the sound of people having fun and you will find us:)

Busy, busy, busy

We had good luck with registrations at church Sunday morning and are now up to 92 children pre-registered. Many thanks to Vicki Jackson for helping with the registration table!

Some last minute chores before VBS starts in TWELVE DAYS are:

1. Finishing the prep work on the crafts
2. Start work on prepping for decorating
3. Copy, laminate and cut Bible Buddy Trading Cards
4. Finalize and copy Bible Story pages
5. Decorating Day on Saturday, June 7 from 9 am until we finish. Pizza provided for lunch to those who come!
6. Wait for last part of order of Science Kit from Group Publishing
7. Wait for nametags and laminating sheets order
8. Find crew leader bags hiding in the Supply Closet
9. Create, print, laminate and trim Schedule tags for crew leader bags

If you can help with any of these activities, please let us know:) Thank you in advance for your willingness to volunteer!

Wow!

We have 75 children pre-registered and over 100 volunteers registered as of today. Many thanks to you all! We still need some help in the following areas:

Snack supper oversight and transport
Registration
Prayer

Aha!

I was so happy to see so many volunteers show up for our training last night. My closest estimate of the number of attendees is 65! Other than 'experiencing some technical difficulties' when I learned that the bulb was blown on the projector system (putting the kaibash on watching the DVD or seeing any of the slides I had put together), it was a pretty successful evening.

One of the items we practiced was our "Aha!". That is the response that we will teach the children to say each time anyone says the Bible Point during VBS week. I do not believe it is a coincidence, but a "God-incidence" that part of my bible reading today was Psalm 35. I got a huge smile on my face while I was reading it this morning. Here is a portion of verse 21 from the New Living Translation:

"They shout, 'Aha! Aha!'... "

What a perfect way to begin my day and week. Praise God for all his many blessings!

Training Session

I hope everyone that can makes their way downstairs to Carter Hall tomorrow night from 6-7 pm for our VBS Training Session. I will do my best to get straight to the points and get finished as soon as possible. I finished up the manuals tonight and will also have them available for anyone unable to attend tomorrow night's meeting.

Our t-shirts have arrived and will be available tomorrow night. I think you will like them as much as I do. Many thanks to Luckie Graphics for giving us such a wonderful price. It would have been unaffordable to have such nice, colorful shirts without their giving spirit.

Pre-registration Update

Today we had our 40th participant pre-register. I know there are many children in the church who have not yet pre-registered. Please encourage anyone you see this Sunday to register their children. They may register online at the link to the right OR there will be a pre-registration table set up Sunday morning in the Foyer outside of the Worship Center upstairs.

The more pre-registrations we have, the smoother life will be for us all on Sunday night, June 8!

Mulder Youth are great

We have such a huge response from our Youth who want to be crew leaders this year. I have just been so blessed by each of them as they have volunteered to serve the community through helping with VBS. I am starting to think we are actually going to be prepared for 300 children after all!

Thank you, Casey!

My sweet friend (and nursery coordinator extraordinaire), Casey Hudson, made a few calls today and drummed up some more volunteers! I see a light at the end of the tunnel and a load off of my shoulders. Thank you, Casey!!

What a wonderful group of people make up our church. I am just amazed at the fact that we have 92 people who have volunteered to help with VBS this year and we have over 3 weeks left before it begins.

God is so good:)

Look at our volunteer list...

We still need a minimum of 20 more people to serve as crew leaders.

Registrations

We have 28 children registered and 80 volunteers to help. Now, I do not want this information make you think we do not need your help. Although we only have 28 children registered today, we may have over 200 registered by the end of the day on June 8. We must be prepared to minister to those children. Last year we had 125 volunteers. We need at least that many, if not more by June 8.

Percentages

We need crew leaders. Right now, our elementary crew leader positions are almost 50% filled and our preschool crew leader positions are only 33% filled. So, if you have not already volunteered, be prepared for a phone call soon:)

Items needed...do you have them?

Lab Coats
One clothes rack
Microscopes
Scales (food or lab)
Beakers
Jars
Test tubes
Goggles
Periodic Table

If you have any of these items, please comment here and bring the items to the church anytime after Wednesday, June 4.

Online Registration

We have 22 children pre-registered as of today! Many thanks to the parents who are pre-registering, especially through the website (see link on the right ----->).

Stressed out much?

Please pray for me. I need each and every person who reads this blog to pray for me every day between now and June 13 (of course, you can continue after that date, too, if you would like!). I have the tendency to get a little bit stressed out this time of year (Barb is probably chuckling at the 'little bit' comment). It hit me today that VBS starts in FIVE WEEKS! AAAAaaaaaccccckkkkkk!!!!!!

...and I still need a whole lot more crew leaders. ALOT. If you know anyone in the church who is not listed in the volunteer column on the right, please encourage them to volunteer this year. It would mean the world to me.

Part of me absolutely loves the planning and seeing everything come together for a great week of VBS. The other part of me just wants to run away and hide and let somebody else pick up the pieces.

Pray that the first part comes through this year. Thank you!

Registration

Registration forms are now available at the Visitor Center upstairs by the Worship Center for those who choose not to registration online. I encourage everyone who can to use the online registration if at all possible. The link is to the right above the Power Lab logo.

More volunteers

Thanks to the following gracious folks who agreed to volunteer during VBS:

Boyd and Carrie Taylor
Camden Smith
Betty Firman
Glenda Ray
Ahna and Buster Baggett
Kay Kirtland
Barry and Kathy Corbman
Rebecca Corbman
Lauren Adam
Jennifer and Jason Trippe
Leigh Walker
Carol Rattan
John Dean

New volunteers:)

Thanks to Mark and Misty Lampman who have volunteered to help with elementary crafts!

T-shirt update

Met with Susan at Luckie Graphics and okayed the final logo information for the t-shirts. The new Slapstick font is perfect for the tag line:) Susan was so nice, as usual, and even showed me how they screen print the shirts with the 5 colors. Don't forget to support this local business!

I also met with Mike at Play at Home to start the arrangements to rent several of their inflatables for the Friday night celebration. Ken Pogue from Mulder works with Mike at their new business located in the old Ox Yoke restaurant site. They were great to deal with when we rented inflatables from them for our Easter Egg Hunt in March.

Fonts and crew names

I found some cool new fonts to use that match up great with the Power Lab logo fonts. I forwarded that information to Luckie Graphics to use with our church name information on the T-shirts.

I also finalized the names of our crews. Our Squeaky Beaker preschoolers will be divided into the Red Moons, Yellow Suns, and Blue Planets. Our Power Lab elementary crews will be Atoms (K), Molecules (1st), Protons (2nd), Neutrons (3rd), Electrons (4th) and Nucleons (5th).

I am still searching the web for the Cinema Science Kits for our Chadder stations. The Group Outlets is out of stock. I found a company in Canada that may have them. Say a prayer!