The Saginaw Bay District Visual Resource and Prop Center can be used year-round not just during the summer months! However, due to the overwhelming response in this 2012 VBS season, all eight themes are being used throughout our district this summer. To check out Prop Center items for your church please click here. Please consider visiting the SBD Prop Center in September when all eight themes will be available for viewing for any of your upcoming events, such as family fun nights, youth events, dramas for worship, etc.
8 VBS Themes Available: (a variety of Christian Education Kits available)
Prayer Themes Available:
Holy Communion
Lord, Teach Me to Pray
Prayer Path
Renewal: Body, Mind and Soul Stations of the Cross (for Lent)
Woman at the Well
People are saying about the labyrinth:
"Every person that completed the prayer labyrinth thought it was a wonderful experience. Half of the participants finished the labyrinth with tears in their eyes. One couple commented that this should be mandatory for all members at Mapleton. Another member enjoyed the experience so much that she asked to do it again, and she immediately did!" - Pastor Len Clevenger, Mapleton UMC
"The use of video clips, candles, the hammering of nails into a large cross, writing our personal burdens and placing them on the cross, etc. really engaged my students." - Allison Kyro, Director of Children's Ministries, Midland First UMC
"We discovered that this ministry was very meaningful to all who participated. Before we even concluded the event, several people urged me to make it part of my lenten plans for 2011. This ministry brought people to a discipleship experience that usually would not have attended some of our more traditional offerings. I heartily commend this resource to your church." - Pastor Marcel Allen Lamb, Mio and Curran Sunnyside UMC
A Christmas Program To Go for your church!Children from kindergarten thru 5th Grade participate in a variety of 30 minute - Christmas themed worship arts workshops (see list from screen selection), including a Christmas play. After only 30 minutes at each worship arts workshops the children are ready to run through the entire program, as seen on the video. If these children can learn this Christmas Program in just half a day, then just imagine what a couple more practices at your church could bring!The scripts, choregraph descriptions, worship arts elements, props and music is given to each church at the Children's Worship Festival to take back to your church for one or two more practices, before your scheduledChristmas program. This program can be easily adapted to fit a wide range (minimum of 3 children or more childrenwith the flexibility of addingadults and youth, as needed)of participation. It is an al-a-carte program, as you can pick and choose what portions of the program you will incorporate into your program.
The next Children's Worship Festival is Saturday, November 3rd 2012!
