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!