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!

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!