If you are like me we grew up looking forward each summer to V.B.S.  I remember the singing, making crafts, and of course the RED KOOL-AID. As a children's pastor, I never questioned whether or not I would do a V.B.S. But as the years went by, I realized that as the church grew the less we filled our V.B.S. with non-churched children. I often found myself talking quietly about the dates of V.B.S. because I know we could not accommodate our own children, much less the children of our community.

I struggled with this paradigm because V.B.S. was meant to be an evangellstic outreach to the unchurched. I then gathered many of my leaders and asked the question, "How can we reach the unchurched in the summer months when most of our mom's either work or are worn out from the school year?" With so many creative V.B.S. programs on the market I did not want to throw out V.B.S. altogether. We worked to come up with a few ideas to creatively use V.B.S. curriculum. We felt we could do it in the evenings or do one day's material each Wednesday evening for a 5-10 week period. This allowed more of our moms and dads to be involved.

Mark Chittwood, 1994