2020 VBS helps youngsters construct on the love of Jesus

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NASHVILLE (BP) -- next summer season, youngsters will seize their challenging hats and head to the development web site with "Concrete & Cranes," the 2020 holiday Bible college theme from LifeWay Christian substances.

In "Concrete & Cranes," youngsters will find how towering skyscrapers are carefully developed on a rock solid foundation. And by gaining knowledge of five stories from the lifetime of Jesus, children will learn the way they can also construct their lives on a certain basis -- Christ and His Gospel.

"As a self-proclaimed 'vigor tool princess,' i'm excited to have a theme of bulldozers and backhoes, rivets and rebar," observed Melita Thomas, VBS expert for LifeWay. "This isn't your usual 'birthday celebration construction theme.' or not it's skyscrapers and cranes popping up far and wide a virtually futuristic-searching urban landscape it truly is colorful and kooky."

while making ready for the 2020 VBS theme, Thomas spoke of she's watched a metropolis skyline endure transformation outside of LifeWay's downtown workplace home windows.

"God led us to this theme lengthy before Nashville exploded into 'building vital,'" she said. "but it surely's been first-rate for our analysis. one of the most surprising things we've noticed is how deep employees should dig before the rest can also be constructed up.

"There are non secular parallels there," she stated. "children should set up effective spiritual foundations with the intention to preserve from tumbling when the storms of lifestyles come."

In "Concrete and Cranes," kids will learn how to construct their lives on the foundations of God's love, forgiveness, statement of worth and His promises. they may then tie these lessons collectively by way of exploring the parable of the smart and silly builders to learn how a groundwork in Christ alterations one's lifestyles trajectory.

however children might not walk out of VBS as impartial contractors, pondering they should make a go at the Christian lifestyles alone. rather, they'll be trained God is intimately involved in the process of sanctification -- a certainty that comes from the 2020 VBS theme verse of Philippians 1:6.

"Our theme verse tells youngsters that when God begins an excellent work, he is sees it through to completion," Thomas stated. "this is highly releasing since it skill we will not have to work every thing out ourselves or be ultimate. God is the master builder and will certainly not depart us to fend for ourselves."

VBS is still one of the vital common church classes in the U.S., LifeWay analysis shows. Six in 10 american citizens say they went to VBS turning out to be up, and ninety five % of folks whose child attended VBS say it supplied a positive adventure.

VBS also continues to be a leading outreach experience for church buildings. "final summer season, more than fifty nine,000 americans made professions of religion as an instantaneous result of VBS," Thomas talked about.

"Concrete & Cranes" became printed through a fb are living experience on Wednesday (June 5). throughout the reveal, LifeWay additionally introduced locations for 2020 VBS preview movements:

-- Ridgecrest, N.C., Jan. 10-eleven

-- Houston, Texas, Jan. 17-18

-- fortress price, Texas, Jan. 24-25

-- Hendersonville, Tenn., Jan. 30 – Feb. 1

For greater advice, talk over with LifeWay.com/vbs2020.

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