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Jen Bradbury
Jul 03 · 5 min read

The gift of VBS

When the kids filled the space and I briefly wondered how we were going to make this year’s VBS work in a building under construction, I was shocked when the word that popped into my head was “gift.”

That word kept reverberating in my head all...

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#VBS #children's ministry

Jen Bradbury
Jun 28 · 5 min read

7 Reasons Why Group May Not Be the Easy VBS

Scuba

One of the reasons we chose Group’s SCUBA VBS was because it’s marketed as the “easy VBS.” Maybe that’s because small group leaders do not have to do any prep (which, I’ll admit, is very appealing.) That said, having just finished our week of...

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#faith formation #discipleship #curriculum discipleship #VBS

Jen Bradbury
Jun 27 · 5 min read

4 Things I Appreciated About Group’s SCUBA VBS

Scuba

We just finished a week of VBS at our church. By every metric, it was a huge success. For several reasons, we opted to use Group’s SCUBA curriculum this year. While this curriculum certainly isn’t perfect, there were four things I appreciated...

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#curriculum #VBS

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