Vacation Bible School
June 22-26, 2026 – Camp Kindness
Join us for Vacation Bible School: Camp Kindness! from June 22nd to 26th from 9 am to 12 noon daily. Hosted by Bethlehem Lutheran Church and St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church. Click HERE TO REGISTER.
This year’s camping theme will focus on spreading kindness through exploration of Bible stories centered on friendship. Kids will engage in exciting rotations, including Around the Campfire (Bible Story), Cooperation Station (Science), Interactive Music, and Teamwork Time (Games). Each rotation will inspire kids to work together, celebrate our differences and spread kindness in our world. We will also be exploring different ways that we can spread kindness in tangible ways around the neighborhood.
Camp Kindness! VBS is designed for children Age 4 – 6th Grade. Cost is $75 for the first child and $30 per each additional child. Scholarships are available.
Get ready for a week of joy, friendship, and spreading kindness to our neighbors!
Are you excited to volunteer for Camp Kindness! VBS? Click HERE and come and join the fun!
Questions? Contact Jana Hegg @ childrensministry@blcenc.org.
Through the Years of VBS:
June 2025 – Just Like Me
This year’s garden theme focused on inclusion, celebrating how we are all wonderfully made in God’s image. Kids engaged in exciting rotations, including Digging Deep into the Bible, Creation Time in the Garden, Interactive Music, and Garden Games. Each rotation inspired kids to embrace their differences, celebrate their similarities, and grow in faith together.
June 2024 – Scuba: Diving into Friendship with God
Our 2024 SCUBA themed Vacation Bible School was a huge success! We spent the week “diving into friendship with God” and building community with the children who spent the week in rotations that included Bible Stories about the Parting of the Red Sea, Jonah and the Big Fish, Jesus Calming the Storm and Lydia and her Purple Cloth. In the Imagination Station, the children were excited about Magic Bubbles, Sun Prints, Lava Lamps, Elephant Toothpaste and many other science explorations. Music included catchy songs with hand motions, and rotations with musical instruments and movements. Playing kickball, Drip Drip Drop and TP Tell All, were favorites during our Games rotation. We ended the week with a “Friendship Day” and a showing of the movie “Finding Nemo” and Water Play. Here are some impressive facts about SCUBA VBS 2024:
- 57 children ages 4 – 6th grade were in attendance
- 54 volunteers from both BLC and St. Andrews led the way
- The children in attendance were from 14 different churches
- Chris LaClair built a life-sized, 40 ft sperm whale that the children named Fruit Loops
- We collected $170 dollars in offering that will be used to buy over 400 single subject notebooks for Bethlehem Serves
- We are already planning for next year!
June 2023 – Stellar: Shine Jesus’ Light
Our week together for Stellar VBS took us out of this world on some incredible space adventures! We gathered daily at our launch pad with the planets lined up above us as we learned all about how to share Jesus’ light in the world around us. We were greeted daily by our own astronauts and we got to experience their space adventures as they learned how to work together to complete their mission in space.
We listened to Bible stories each day about shining the light of Jesus in our daily lives, and we made our own “bouncy planets” and straw rockets in the Imagination Station. We also learned new music, played instruments and spaced theme games, and of course, we had water play. We ended our full week with a movie, astronaut ice cream and a real rocket launch!
Stellar VBS 2023 was out of this world!
June 2022 – Monumental: Celebrating God’s Greatness
During the week of Monumental VBS, we went off-road for an exciting adventure through the colorful canyons and sunbaked trails of the southwest desert. During our time in the desert, we experienced God’s awesomeness and we learned about the greatness of God’s love through the following daily themes:
- God loves you no matter what
- God is with us everywhere
- God is stronger than anything
- God is surprising
At the Imagination Station, we made slime and participated in some cool experiments. We also celebrated the awesomeness of God through music, and we played fun games and enjoyed water play. Our time together helped our children to form a rock-solid faith for the road ahead.
