VBS VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Working with children brings with it a huge responsibility - to the parents and the God we serve.

Here at Bethel, we take pride in delivering a high quality VBS program to your children. We define the quality of our program not just in security and fun, but more importantly the Biblical principles we teach and live by.

We'd love to hear from you if you think your service meets the convictions we hold ourselves to. Please take time to read through the various positions we need to fill for this year's program. Want to register to volunteer or register your child? Please click here.

Bible Bowl Committee

Gathers materials needed and makes copies of study booklets.  Organizes youth helpers for Bible Bowl and runs the game daily for 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders during VBS.

Comforters Committee

Committee of women offers tender loving care and First Aid during VBS.  Comforters are for any child having a hard time adjusting or needing First Aid.

Crafts Committee

Inventories and orders supplies for the craft activities in each classroom.  Prepares and distributes supplies to individual boxes for each classroom before the week of VBS. Provides craft teachers with any materials they need during VBS week.  Using teen and adult volunteers as they are available during the week to prepares for the next years VBS. Collects and stores boxes with extras on VBS Friday.

Craft Teacher - Need 20 People

Reinforce the lesson while presenting and helping the children complete the prepared craft each day.

Equipment Committee

Inventories rooms as currently arranged.  Collects lead teachers’ Equipment Request Forms with number of tables, chairs, etc. needed (a diagram of classroom set-up if helpful) and special equipment requested, such as a TV/DVD player, easel, flannel board, etc.  Also gets the map of the Friday Night Picnic.  Organizes deacons and others to help on set-up Sunday and Friday and is available during VBS week if needs arise.

Friday Night Picnic Committee

Requests food donations and gets teens to sign up to help during the picnic.  The picnic takes place outside after the program in the sanctuary and allows the children, workers, and families to relax and visit after a long week at VBS... hundreds are served every year.

Gospel Tent Committee

Available at any time during VBS to clearly explain the message of salvation on an individual basis.  Prior to VBS, workers will meet with any teacher who needs ideas for presenting the Gospel in the classroom.  Tent is set up on the Sunday before VBS.  Students are given tracts, Bibles (if needed), and certificates if they profess Christ.  Records of decisions are made, so that children will receive follow-up.

Hospitality/Teachers’ Lounge Committee

Helps with lunch for the April chairmen meeting.  Maintains the hospitality suite for the adult volunteers serving the week of VBS.  They request and coordinate food donations during the VBS week and keep the refreshment table replenished.  Orders ice and paper goods through the church office for the parlor and coordinates the Friday lunch for VBS volunteers/workers.

Music Committee

Recruits leaders of music time and works on songs selected for VBS.  Prepares CD’s to distribute to each VBS family.  Plans daily morning singing times from 8:45-9:00 for VBS workers’ kids and gets help from teens.  Plans and coordinates the Friday night music program in the sanctuary.

Notebooks/Curriculum Committee

Updates notebooks each year with current information, such as job descriptions, schedules, and curriculum changes.  Also checks to see that curriculum boxes contain teaching materials needed for the week’s lessons.  Distributes notebooks and curriculum boxes (as needed at that time) to teachers at the May Fair and collects them at the end of VBS.  Also updates all chairmen notebooks before the April meeting and keeps track of them after VBS.

Nursery Director

Makes sure the nursery is clean, safe and staffed with loving, capable caregivers.  Nursery during VBS covers infants through toddlers and hours are from 8:30am-12:30pm each day.  Nursery care during the closing program/picnic begins at 5:45pm on Friday and is only for children of VBS workers under two years old.

Photography Committee

Pictures of each child are taken, printed and distributed to each classroom in the 1st part of the week for use in classroom activities.

Prayer Committee

The committee comes together regularly before the week of VBS to pray for requests and concerns related to the preparation of the weeks activities.  The committee prays throughout VBS week in the library for daily request received by the committee.  Early prayer time is from 8:40-8:55am each morning and is open to all.

Recruitment Committee

Works with registration chairman and recruits volunteers for the classroom, including lead, assistant, and craft teachers.  Keeps teachers informed about their teams before VBS.  Also recruits substitutes if a teacher has to be absent during VBS.

Refreshments Committee

Request donations of food.  Orders and serves sandwich lunches for all VBS workers/families on set-up Sunday.  Buys or collects donated snacks to serve the children in the courtyard during VBS…(youngest kids are served in classrooms). 

Registration Committe

Oversees registration of all VBS attendees.  Responsible for an email distribution and and mail out campaign to invite all of last years participants to register for VBS.  Coordinates classroom assignments and notifies all participants of their class assignment, teacher name and room number the last week of June.  Mails class rosters to lead teachers that same week.  New students are added to classrooms as space allows on Monday and Tuesday of VBS.  The committee also tracks daily attendance.

Resources Committee

Assists teachers by making notebooks, nametags and other “disposable” classroom items such as memory verse key chains, etc.  Teachers fill out Resource request forms for any item that needs to be added or changed from the year before.  Work with teens on VBS resources for next year.  Collect extras on Thursday and Friday of VBS 

Sixth Grade Boot Camp Committee

Signs up Bethel’s incoming 6th graders and their friends.  Plans and teaches them to serve Christ by serving others with personal gain.  Each day consists of morning devotion, followed by a guest speaker and a team service project in the community.  Snacks are provided and plans are made for a party Friday after VBS is over.

Supplies Committee

Reviews supplies lists and buys needed items for each classroom’s box.  Teachers may fill out Supplies request forms by June 15 if there are any changes or additions since last year.  Supplies boxes, as well as paper towels, Kleenex, food items, grocery bags, attendance charts, poster board, and items for play dough will be delivered to classrooms set-up Sunday.  Bulletin board paper is found in the Sunday School supply closet that day.  Supplies boxes are turned in after VBS on Friday.

Teacher Helper – Need 20 People

Assist the lead teacher running the classroom and teaching the prepared curriculum.

Teacher Lead – Need 20 People

Communicate to helpers and craft teachers the plan for teaching the prepared curriculum.  Plan the room layout.  Execute the teaching plan the week of VBS.

Teen Coordination Committee

Recruits and trains teens 7th - 12th grade in preparation for VBS week.  Coordinates the placement of all teen workers in classrooms and other positions, according to needs indicated by teachers and chairmen on their Teen request forms.  Oversees and staffs the teen refreshment table and supervises teen conduct during the week.

Teen Helper

Be available the week of VBS to diligently and enthusiastically assist the adult volunteers.

T-Shirt Committee

Orders and distributes the official VBS T-shirts to all participants, students and volunteers.   The T-shirts are to be worn throughout the week and for the Friday program. Registration inputs sizes for kids, then prints a roster so that the correct numbers/sizes may be ordered. Adult workers fill out T-shirt forms with sizes requested. On set-up Sunday t-shirts for teaching teams, chairmen, and students are delivered.

Videography

Takes footage and still pictures of all ages during the week of VBS and edits it for presentation at the Friday night program in the sanctuary.

Interested in serving in this year's Vacation Bible School? Please take a minute to register for a volunteer position online by clicking here.