VBS Highlights

The Directors of our Children and FUSION ministries shared highlights of how we went Above & Beyond this year with Vacation Bible School:

• A student leader bought Bibles for kids in her group who don’t have them
• 441 kids and 209 leaders
• 289 families registered
• 38 families with no church home
• 74 families from other churches
• The number of fusion kiddos here for VBS!! Danielle – can you give exact numbers?
• Over $2600 for Hesed House raised in 4 days!
• Student leaders sharing how VBS is their favorite week of the whole year!
• Shared our décor set (which took months to create) with another church who has their VBS in July and will then share it with another church – so 3 churches get to use it!!
• Some kids who have never heard before that Jesus died on the cross or who Jesus even is!
• Leaders who thought they were ‘helping’ out realizing that God desired this for them personally as much as for the kids in their groups
• 13 FUSION kiddos with one on one buddies
• 1 FUSION kiddo that only stayed three days because he needed a more self-contained/sensory room that will benefit from our new space!! 
• 17 FUSION kiddos that had special needs and we worked with their small group leaders to give them the support they needed. 
• One FUSION kiddo told his mom he wants to come to church at Good Shepherd because he loves it here and made a lot of friends. 
• Two FUSION kiddos who are best friends didn’t even know they went to the same church—until they ran into each other at VBS
• Another group had a kiddo in a wheelchair with a tray—instead of doing group work on the ground, they brought the work up to his level and used his tray so he could see what was going on (no prompting from me—totally the leaders/kids idea!) 
• MANY FUSION parents left with tears in their eyes bc they saw their kids with special needs having an amazing time, being included with their peers, and learning about God’s purpose for their lives.