Vacation Bible School
Making Jesus Real to Kids
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VBS Program Options
Handcrafted With You in Mind
No matter which Group VBS program you choose, you’ll get a fun, engaging, hands-on Bible learning experience that’s easy to do and adaptable to your church’s size and budget. It’s a win-win!
Shipwrecked
2018 Easy VBS
Venture onto an uncharted island where kids survive and thrive. Anchor kids in the truth that Jesus carries them through life’s storms.
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Shipwrecked
2018 Bilingual VBS
Venture onto an uncharted island where kids survive and thrive. Anchor kids in the truth that Jesus carries them through life’s storms.
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Starter Kit
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Babylon
2018 Holy Land Adventure
Join Daniel—torn from his home and forced into the king’s service. Explore exotic sights and smells in a Babylonian bazaar!
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Polar Blast
2018 Weekend VBS
Sled into an ice way to spend the ultimate summer weekend. Kids chill with new friends and warm up to Jesus—the coolest friend of all.
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Roar
2019 Easy VBS
Make your VBS the mane event! This epic African adventure engages the whole herd. At Roar, kids explore God’s goodness and celebrate a ferocious faith that powers them through this wild life.
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Athens
2019 Holy Land Adventure
Imagine leaving a life of privilege and power to face angry mobs, painful imprisonment, and chain-breaking earthquakes—all to spread the life-changing truth of God’s love.
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Need help finding the best VBS for your church? This quick and easy quiz will walk you through a few questions and make a recommendation to you.
The Group VBS Difference
Helping You Make Jesus Real to Kids
Group VBS makes it easy for you to create your best VBS yet! All of our programs are field tested and designed with you in mind—we do the work, so you don’t have to!
All Group VBS programs include these six core features:
Single-point Bible Learning
One memorable Bible Point reinforced throughout each day—makes it easy to apply long after VBS is over.
Easy Bible Reinforcement
Helps families continue exploring the Bible messages.
High Quality Music
Solidifies life-changing Bible truths and will have kids and adults singing about God year-round.
Unforgettable Bible Exploration
Brings Scripture to life with interactive lessons and activities that reinforce the daily Bible message.
Life Application
Gets kids to actively watch for God and recognize that he is working in their lives.
Operation Kid-to-Kid
The largest child-to-child mission project in the country.
Testimonials
Trusted by Thousands of Churches
Group gives you the recipe and the resources you need to do VBS. It’s so simple yet so profound at the same time. Easy to put together, full of energy, the kids stay connected, and every step is so completely intentionally done.
Group VBS makes every moment count with life changing experiences using relational, experiential, applicable, and learner based techniques. My kids know my adults by name and my adults know each of their kids by name which create long lasting friendships and mentorships.
Our church just wrapped up VBS - what an awesome program! All of the kids and adults involved had a blast and were busting at the seams with love for Jesus by the end of the week!
Thank you for providing such a great Biblically strong foundation for us to use!
My two daughters (age 7 and 4) recently attended VBS at our church. Their reaction to it was nothing short of amazing. They came home every day singing songs about Jesus and God's love. They were willing to share the dances they learned, and the lessons of the day, which were easy for them to remember. Thank you very much for bringing joyful songs of Jesus back into their lives.
VBS Tools
Complement Your VBS With Awesomeness
After you’ve made the decision to host the best vacation Bible school yet, you’ll have access to these incredible resources. Designed to help you at all stages of your VBS, these resources are crafted with care and special super powers!
Digital VBS Tool
Promote, take registrations, and organize your VBS online.
VBS Training Events
Training events that equip you to host a successful VBS.
Background Checks
Don’t take the risk. Make sure your VBS is safe for your kids.
Video Training
Train your volunteers and staff the easy way with videos.
Clip Art
Incredible artwork for your church's design needs.
Decorating
Creative inspiration and instructions for décor.
Videos
Downloadable videos for your visual needs.
Updates & Resources
Fixes and extra resources that come in handy at VBS.
Faq
Answers to Common Questions
New Living Translation (NLT)
We are an interdenominational company.
Evidence of God in action everywhere around us, every day of our lives! It’s the small things like a smile or a sunset, and it’s the BIG things like being healed from sickness, or being rescued from a storm.
Yes! Operation Kid-to-Kid (OK2K) is the largest child-to-child missions project in the world! OK2K gives kids real ways that they can help share God’s love in a meaningful, hands-on project. In 2012 alone, kids raised over 1 million dollars in Mission Mali.
Preschoolers have their own age-appropriate activities at Group VBS to help them connect to the Daily Bible Point in meaningful ways.
Organization is a snap with VBS P.R.O.! This FREE online tool helps you Promote, Register, and Organize your VBS!
Give us a call at 800.447.1070 or email us at info@group.com.
Easy VBS has a new setting every year. The look and feel is very contemporary. Cross Culture VBS explores a different country every summer and helps kids see the big picture—an exciting world of faith beyond their own backyard. Holy Land Adventure VBS takes a step back into the Bible. It has an old-world, Bible times look and feel. Weekend VBS is a shortened program (just 2 days and a closing show). This is designed for churches who are just getting into VBS, thinking of quitting, having trouble getting volunteers, or are such HUGE VBS fans that they need another program every year!
No. but, we highly recommend it! All of our programs are field tested in the real world, at a real church, with real kids—so we know it works! It’s like a recipe, if you start changing the ingredients it may not come out right.
We realize that each church's needs are different. Please contact us to discuss the unique factors surrounding your VBS so we can give you a recommendation that's tailored to your needs. Our team of experts are here to help you pull of the best VBS yet!
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