Regular Baptist Ministries
Vacation Bible School
VBS Evangelism Is a Big Deal!
RBP VBS is known as The Evangelistic VBS. Our approach to presenting the gospel is clear, consistent, and comprehensive. That’s why we are the only VBS endorsed by Child Evangelism Fellowship, the world’s largest evangelistic outreach ministry to children.…
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Churches Rejoice over VBS 2023
Churches using RBP’s Stompers & Chompers made “ground-shaking strides,” sharing the Good News with students and helping Christian kids build their faith in God’s big plan.
Rejoice with them! Here is a sampling.
Rejoice!
New Estate Baptist Church in Surlere,…
Engage Learning Styles to Share the Gospel
Do you know kids who have to handle an item they’re learning about—touch it, stand on top of it, or tear it apart—while other students prefer to listen quietly? That’s not surprising, because kids learn best in different ways. So…
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VBS Offering Provides Oasis during Crisis
At Kookaburra Coast VBS, kids ventured throughout Australia, making great memories with eternal impact. A special memory for many of them was the missions project. By participating in Operation Oasis, they assisted people who badly needed help—when they needed…
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Relating to Kids: Workshop 3 VBS 2023
Your third Stompers & Chompers VBS workshop can focus on relating to kids in areas such as motivating desirable behavior, preventing child abuse, presenting the gospel, leading a student to believe on Jesus as Savior, and having a child-friendly demeanor.…
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Getting Down to the Nitty-Gritty: VBS Workshop 2
While VBS workshop 1 introduced your team to Stompers & Chompers: Building Dino-Sized Faith in God’s Big Plan and provided a good start in preparing for VBS 2023, workshop 2 addresses the nitty-gritty. This workshop will train workers on how…
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Your First Workshop: Workshop 1 for VBS 2023
You’ve prayerfully recruited a great VBS team! Now your teammates need to know how to make the most of the theme, Stompers & Chompers: Building Dino-Sized Faith in God’s Big Plan; use the VBS resources; comport themselves in kid-friendly…
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Postcards Become Prayer Cards
Fairly soon children will be stomping and chomping their way through your “jungle” as they enjoy Stompers & Chompers: Building Dino-Size Faith in God’s Big Plan. In the meantime, how do you line up and communicate with prayer warriors…
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VBS 2023 Prayer Warriors
“Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints” (Ephesians 6:18).
How will you be letting your community know about Stompers & Chompers: Building Dino-Sized Faith in God’s …
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Check Your Checklist and Ask Others to Pray
As you prepare for your visitors to Stomp and Chomp Jungle during your 2023 VBS, Stompers & Chompers: Building Dino-Sized Faith in God’s Big Plan, it would be easy for something to fall through the cracks. The list below should…
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Dino-Sized Faith in God’s Plan for VBS
Imagine What God Might Do!
Stompers & Chompers: Building Dino-Sized Faith in God’s Big Plan is a once-in-a-few-millennia opportunity! Here faith grows in dino-sized ways.
This isn’t just any dinosaur world. It’s a whimsical adventure that will have dinosaurs and…
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VBS 2023: Welcome to the World of Dinosaurs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.—Churches and their communities are invited to a “dinormous” time of learning and fun at Stompers & Chompers: Building Dino-Sized Faith in God’s Big Plan. This “world of dinosaurs” theme allows kids to explore our…
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Tagged dinosaurs, Discipleship, Genesis 1-12, pre-Flood world, VBS, VBS 2023, world of dinosaurs
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The ‘Why Factor’ Answers Kids’ Questions about the Bible
50 Years of Vacation Bible School
The Why Factor of VBS
Is The Evangelistic VBS™ for Christian kids? Absolutely! It’s for every child. Even kids from Christian families and solid, Bible-teaching churches need to understand why they should believe what they are being taught. I call it the “why” factor. And…
VBS 2021: Wrap It Up with Follow-Up
With the passage of Labor Day, summer is fading fast, and VBS 2021 is history.
Or is it?
Consider wrapping up VBS 2021 with follow-up throughout the fall and into the new year. Here are six ideas for now,…
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9 Questions for You to Ask after VBS
Ask these nine questions to evaluate the execution of your VBS strategy.
Did you reach your goals? Why or why not?
Did you choose the best workers for each department? (Review the job descriptions on the Director Resources CD of…
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Thank VBS Workers for Their Service
Your church family prayed for VBS. Don’t leave them ignorant of how God answered. If you haven’t already done so, hold a special service, or set aside time during a regular service, to report on VBS and express appreciation…
Touch Base with VBS Families
An Awesome Australian Adventure Awaits at VBS
Volunteers Make VBS Glow
Create the Glow!
With your black lights, background material (black plastic or cardboard painted black), and glow chalk purchased, you’re ready to take the next step to create Big Fish Bay, with its shops, church, seafood restaurant, harbor master’s office, lighthouse, marina,…
Shorter Program, Same Power: A Three-Day VBS
Glow in VBS: Use Black Lights
A VBS That Keeps Working: Growth with Goals
CHILDREN ARE FASCINATED with growing. They love to measure themselves against how tall they were last year (or even against Mom or Dad)! It makes them feel “all grown up.” Growth is also a big part of what a church…
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A VBS That Keeps Working: Family Discipleship
WATCH WHAT HAPPENS just after a VBS leader has led a student to the Savior. Both are absolutely “walking on air”! There’s nothing like it in the world. At first, much of what happens with that student is one-on-one.…
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A VBS that Keeps Working: One-on-One Discipleship
A HIGH POINT in the year spiritually for many people is Vacation Bible School. That’s largely because of the relationship factor and God’s love being poured out on children and their families at VBS. Students are impacted forever! That depth…
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Make Big Fish Bay Your Back-to-School Event
Kids Given Opportunity to Bless Orphans This Summer
News Releases Invite Your Community
Send news releases to local newspapers, radio stations, and local cable television stations. If you’re not sure how to do that, read about sending a press/news/media release. Also post information on your church’s website and social media sites.
VBS 2020…
Charting a Course for VBS 2020
Yes, VBS May Be Unique This Year—but also the Most Evangelistic Ever!
Many things stand out about VBS leaders, but one amazing skill is their ability to adapt and work with almost anything. Part of the giant stage decorations could…
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Six Ideas for Family-Directed Advertising
Enter a VBS Float in a Community Parade
Advertise your church’s VBS program by entering a float in a Fourth of July or other community parade. Decorate your float like an Eastern Seaboard fishing village. Check out the Director Resource CD Set for patterns and decorating ideas to…
COVID-19 and Vacation Bible School
Editor’s Note: Since the publication of this article, a resource for Charting a Course for VBS 2020 has been released.
Perhaps more than anything else in recent history, the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the uncertainty of life. As James wrote,…
Recruit a Great Team
12 Weeks’ Worth of VBS One-Liners
Interact with Your Community to Publicize Your VBS
Publicity Overview: Countdown & Checklist
Don’t let publicity fall through the cracks as your team prepares for VBS. This countdown overview and checklist will help you and others keep on top of publicizing your Big Fish Bay VBS.
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Vacation Bible School Publicity Countdown
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Set a Goal, Reach a Goal in VBS
What You Wear Says a Lot!
In certain restaurants, all the waitstaff wear white shirts, black pants, and nametags. Or maybe they all wear a certain color or style of shirt. Or hats. Likewise, all the employees of your favorite grocery store may wear the same…
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Thinking Ahead: When It’s Time to Say Good-Bye to Big Fish Bay
Before you say good-bye to Big Fish Bay, host a cookout, picnic, or fish fry. Be sure lots of friendly church members are there to greet and interact with guests. Sing some VBS songs and quote VBS verses.…
Game Time: Leviathans vs. Otters
A Puppet Matinee!
If you only do the Will Ketchit Skits during VBS, consider presenting a matinee performance of the Big Fish Bay Puppet Skits. Here are three possible ways to present the skits:
Have your church’s puppet team present them.
Invite…
Have a Family Fun Fair in Big Fish Bay after VBS
Keep having fun and learning after VBS! Use the Big Fish Bay postcards to invite students and families back to your church for a Big Fish Bay family fun fair. And when you visit students for follow-up, invite the family…
Summer Days in Big Fish Bay
RBP’s 2020 VBS program, Big Fish Bay: Hooked on God’s Mercy, has so many great ideas that no church could include them all in one week of VBS. So why not stretch the fun and learning to include more…
Rotation Names in Big Fish Bay
When you call rotations by theme names, every place in VBS becomes part of Big Fish Bay. For example, snack time is now Tall Ship Treats, and that little extra touch helps students become sailors! Decorating the locations according to…
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‘Operation Safe Harbor’ Missions Project
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.—Regular Baptist Press is once again emphasizing orphans. As the RBP team prayed about next year’s VBS missions project, God led them to choose orphans as the offering recipients. Then, tying it in with the 2020 theme, Big …
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When VBS Goes Dark
LEXINGTON, N.C.—Higher Ground Baptist Church added to the excitement of Giddyup Junction: Taking God’s Love to New Frontiers by going dark.
Nighttime in the city can’t compare to a starlit night on the prairie. Using fluorescent paint and fabrics, glow-in-the…
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Still Looking for a Missions Project?
Spread the Good News of God’s Love through Follow-Up
The Good News went to many new frontiers through your VBS. Students were reached with the gospel, to the glory of God. But after VBS, how can you help them grow and keep the good news of God’s love spreading?…
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Don’t Trash Your VBS Decorations
Regular Baptist Press 2020 VBS Available for Preorder
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.—The 2020 Regular Baptist Press Vacation Bible School, Big Fish Bay: Hooked on God’s Mercy, is available for preorder at 2020.rbpvbs.org.
Big Fish Bay features a nautical theme built around Psalm 103:8, “The LORD is merciful and…
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A Refuge for Ourselves and Others