VBS Changes Lives

VBS changes lives all over the world.  Stories of how God used a church to plant a seed in the life of a child and that child since has chosen to follow Jesus and change the world around them.

Share your VBS story of how VBS has changed your life or your families life. Send your story to vbschangeslives@standardpub.com or leave a comment at the bottom of this post. Share how important the outreach of VBS is in this world. Check out Standard Publishing’s current VBS at www.vacationbibleschool.com.

Read stories of how VBS changed the lives of others below.

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The love of kids has been a lifetime passion for this young 85 year old woman. She has always taught Sunday School, VBS and held most of us as babies in the nursery. She is an amazing woman.  What we love about our friend Hatie is that she remembers the names of a lot of the kids who have came through VBS.  She tells us stories of how Jimmy* became a missionary or how Susie* became a State Senator and how God has used all those kids to make a difference for God.

Continue reading ‘A lifetime of changing lives’

As a preacher’s kid I’ve been to more VBS’s than I can remember. I loved going to VBS- the crafts, the stories, and the songs. But it wasn’t until I was a senior in high school that I understood the power of VBS. That week I was asked to play a leading character much like the ones in Hero Headquarters. Continue reading ‘The Power of One!’

I was working at VBS one summer as the Mechanic that talked to the puppet which was a car. I dressed up in my dad’s oil stained mechanic clothes.

I remember this one little girl who came up to me everyday and gave me a hug. She said that I reminded her of her “daddy”. The thing about this is that her daddy did not live with her and this girl’s mother. It made me feel something inside that I can not explain in words. Continue reading ‘Just an Actor’

My favorite memory of VBS is an accumulation of 25 years of teaching VBS.  It is seeing unchurched kids who were dropped off at VBS by their parents, and then 15 years later, they are now bringing their own children to our VBS.  And not just VBS, but to church as well.  Because they felt something at our VBS, something that touched them, an unconditional love that they felt.  A seed was planted.  And now they are returning, bringing their children to find that same feeling they felt all those years ago.  They have bloomed.

Raylene M.

“I LOVE VBS. I was not raised in a church that did VBS so it was a fairly unknown concept to me until I started attending a Christian Bible College. Even then, it wasn’t until I had first hand experience with VBS a couple years ago that I REALLY understood what goes into it. But let me tell you this, I know VBS changes lives because, as an adult, I have watched it happen before my eyes. I know VBS changes lives because it changed MY life, as an adult. It didn’t change my life when I was 5 or 8 or 11. It changed my life at 24. Continue reading ‘I LOVE VBS!’