Comments on: Post VBS Review of Group’s Rome http://ministry-to-children.com/vbs-groups-rome/ Children's ministry should NOT be so hard . . . Ministry-To-Children.com exists to help you. You'll find thousands of lessons, ideas, and resources for telling kids about Jesus. All of this is 100% free and easy to print.. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:51:27 +0000 hourly 1 By: Roxanne Meyer http://ministry-to-children.com/vbs-groups-rome/comment-page-1/#comment-28677 Roxanne Meyer Sat, 19 Feb 2011 20:25:15 +0000 http://ministry-to-children.com/?p=2831#comment-28677 Use a Gazebo/yard tent for the market places. Then we used our tables from throughout the church covered in disposable table clothes. Use baskets with real fruit (cheaper than artificial fruit) for the kids to snack on. Then pottery people own to decorate, use woven rag rugs and woven blankets to cover the floor to look more like a small market shop. Use urns with greenery to decorate around the area. Goodwill and thrift shops are great for many of these items. We made a chariot with corrigated paper from school supply store and wrapped around the pulpit and cut lower in the back to form a chariot. If you need more ideas let me know. Use a Gazebo/yard tent for the market places. Then we used our tables from throughout the church covered in disposable table clothes. Use baskets with real fruit (cheaper than artificial fruit) for the kids to snack on. Then pottery people own to decorate, use woven rag rugs and woven blankets to cover the floor to look more like a small market shop. Use urns with greenery to decorate around the area. Goodwill and thrift shops are great for many of these items. We made a chariot with corrigated paper from school supply store and wrapped around the pulpit and cut lower in the back to form a chariot. If you need more ideas let me know.

]]> By: Irma Gould http://ministry-to-children.com/vbs-groups-rome/comment-page-1/#comment-27992 Irma Gould Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:07:22 +0000 http://ministry-to-children.com/?p=2831#comment-27992 We are a small church about 30..we want to have a one day VBS we are planning on a Saturday. We would like to do the Marketplace theme, can anyone give us some ideas on how to do this theme,and make it great for our communtiy kids. We are a small church about 30..we want to have a one day VBS we are planning on a Saturday. We would like to do the Marketplace theme, can anyone give us some ideas on how to do this theme,and make it great for our communtiy kids.

]]> By: Tony Kummer http://ministry-to-children.com/vbs-groups-rome/comment-page-1/#comment-15506 Tony Kummer Mon, 03 May 2010 00:55:28 +0000 http://ministry-to-children.com/?p=2831#comment-15506 I would try three places: the swap shop section in the group VBS forums, Kidology.org, and eBay I would try three places: the swap shop section in the group VBS forums, Kidology.org, and eBay

]]> By: Trish Lee http://ministry-to-children.com/vbs-groups-rome/comment-page-1/#comment-15483 Trish Lee Sun, 02 May 2010 16:21:00 +0000 http://ministry-to-children.com/?p=2831#comment-15483 Hello We are prayfully looking for some of this material for this year. We are so concerned that we can not find the Extollo Leaders guide. Shop keepers and Game Leader guide and the post card. If there is any way you can help us we would be so so thankful Please let us know please. Hello
We are prayfully looking for some of this material for this year. We are so concerned that we can not find the Extollo Leaders guide. Shop keepers and Game Leader guide and the post card.

If there is any way you can help us we would be so so thankful
Please let us know please.

]]> By: Janette http://ministry-to-children.com/vbs-groups-rome/comment-page-1/#comment-7428 Janette Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:21:37 +0000 http://ministry-to-children.com/?p=2831#comment-7428 We also did Rome. We have been doing the Holy Land series for about three years. I love that it is so different and not like any other program. This year, we had several churches come take a peek at our Rome. We mix our preschool with our older children. We only allow 4 preschoolers or less with each group. We also have opened up our nursery to allow the youngest of our families time and space away to grow on their own. The preschoolers start with us during our meet and greet (families meeting in a common area) and then during Extollo. One by one, they are brought to the nursery. They had their own little group. Some stayed and enjoyed the rest of the day with their tribe familes. Since doing Holy Land, we have incorporated 10 crafts into our market place. The first year, however, was a huge learning curve, I was at the store almost daily trying to find something inexpensive and new. The 2nd year, I ordered enough, this year, we reused prior crafts from our rotation sunday school, beads and used aluminum foil for the carvings, we found cheaper ways to do the same crafts. We do have our crafts broke down to day 1, 2 and day 3-5. Day 5 is a day that they can make what ever they didn't get to make before. Our kitchen (food market) was located in a different area this time. Each day we used hotdog papers and put on different cheeses, raisens or dates, grapes, pita chips, sausage for this year. Using the papers, we had very little thrown away compared to the bread from previous years. We had a lot of teens working this year. They totally enjoyed playing the parts. They taught, sang, was our underground church family, played a huge role in the marketplace and they did it with a joy of serving 'tude. For us, our hugest hit was Paul. My husband played Paul and one of my teen leaders played Brutus. The kids witnessed to Brutus and prayed for him daily. Paul shared much of the book of Romans with the children. In ours, Brutus (went on vacation the 4th and 5th day) on the 4th day was talking to Caesar about letting Paul go. The kids prayed that Paul would be released. They did tell Paul that he needed to be quieter about talking about Jesus so he wouldn't be in trouble, Paul said, I am sorry, we can't because Jesus loves us so much and wants us to share the Good News with others. Some of the groups even prayed with Brutus to accept Jesus as his Forever Friend. We always do a closing night to show parents what we have done and the songs that we have sung. This year, the children signed a gown for Paul and presented it to him. Paul let them know that Brutus was able to free him for a while and the kids cheered so loud! We run two VBS together, one Sunday - Thursday PM and one M-F AM, we have about 65-90 children in each along with plenty of volunteers. We can't wait to pack our bags for Egypt! We also did Rome. We have been doing the Holy Land series for about three years.

I love that it is so different and not like any other program. This year, we had several churches come take a peek at our Rome.

We mix our preschool with our older children. We only allow 4 preschoolers or less with each group. We also have opened up our nursery to allow the youngest of our families time and space away to grow on their own. The preschoolers start with us during our meet and greet (families meeting in a common area) and then during Extollo. One by one, they are brought to the nursery. They had their own little group. Some stayed and enjoyed the rest of the day with their tribe familes.

Since doing Holy Land, we have incorporated 10 crafts into our market place. The first year, however, was a huge learning curve, I was at the store almost daily trying to find something inexpensive and new. The 2nd year, I ordered enough, this year, we reused prior crafts from our rotation sunday school, beads and used aluminum foil for the carvings, we found cheaper ways to do the same crafts. We do have our crafts broke down to day 1, 2 and day 3-5. Day 5 is a day that they can make what ever they didn’t get to make before.

Our kitchen (food market) was located in a different area this time. Each day we used hotdog papers and put on different cheeses, raisens or dates, grapes, pita chips, sausage for this year. Using the papers, we had very little thrown away compared to the bread from previous years.

We had a lot of teens working this year. They totally enjoyed playing the parts. They taught, sang, was our underground church family, played a huge role in the marketplace and they did it with a joy of serving ‘tude.

For us, our hugest hit was Paul. My husband played Paul and one of my teen leaders played Brutus. The kids witnessed to Brutus and prayed for him daily. Paul shared much of the book of Romans with the children. In ours, Brutus (went on vacation the 4th and 5th day) on the 4th day was talking to Caesar about letting Paul go. The kids prayed that Paul would be released. They did tell Paul that he needed to be quieter about talking about Jesus so he wouldn’t be in trouble, Paul said, I am sorry, we can’t because Jesus loves us so much and wants us to share the Good News with others. Some of the groups even prayed with Brutus to accept Jesus as his Forever Friend.

We always do a closing night to show parents what we have done and the songs that we have sung. This year, the children signed a gown for Paul and presented it to him. Paul let them know that Brutus was able to free him for a while and the kids cheered so loud!

We run two VBS together, one Sunday – Thursday PM and one M-F AM, we have about 65-90 children in each along with plenty of volunteers.

We can’t wait to pack our bags for Egypt!

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