From the Fab Five to Final Two!

Just when you thought the voting was over!!!

Last week’s vote resulted in two strong contenders for the title of motions leader for LifeWay’s VBS 2013 events. Our budget won’t allow us to take both ladies on tour, so we need you to help us choose between these two great VBS music leaders. The final result will be announced next Tuesday, August 21. I promise!  Click here to view the videos.

Get Your Way Paid to ALL 4 VBS Previews

Love to travel with all expenses paid by someone else? Love to teach VBS music and motions? Ever think about being on LifeWay’s VBS Preview team? Think you just might enjoy spending a month with some of the most fun people on the face of the earth, AND traveling to cool places like North Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, and Florida?

Well, have I got an opportunity for you!

We are looking for an awesome person with the following qualifications:

• A dynamic relationship with Christ and a desire to worship Him!
• A servant’s heart!
• A passion for VBS!
• An ability to sing!
• An ability to get others to sing!
• An ability to perform song motions!
• An ability to teach others to perform song motions!
• An ability to sing AND perform song motions at the same time!
• An ability to get others to sing AND do song motions at the same time!
• The ability to travel for four weeks/weekends in January/February 2013!

If these qualifications sound like you then you just might be the person we are looking for to teach the music and motions to our great VBS songs to the 5,000 or so people who will be attending VBS Preview.

Still interested?

Here is what you need to do:

• Be available to travel on the following dates: January 9-12, January 16-19, January 30-February 1, February 7-9.**********
• Learn the music and motions to Amazing Wonders Aviation.
• Lead a group of kids and adults to do the same.
• Have a friend video you doing the above.
• Send the video to me (Jerry Wooley, MSN 182, One LifeWay Plaza, Nashville, Tennessee, 37234) by Monday, July 2, 2012.

Then what happens?

• I, and some of my most trusted friends, will watch each and every video submitted.
• We will choose our favorites.
• A few more trusted friends will be asked to watch the favorites.
• They will choose the cream of the crop.
• The cream of the crop will be posted on this blog.
• Blog viewers will be asked to vote for their favorite.
• Votes will be counted.
• The winner will be announced in August.

Still interested? Start learning those motions!

**********Please do not submit a video if you will not be available to travel all four weeks.

VBS Geek of the Week

Wow! I know it’s Friday and we’ve decided to mix things up on you a bit here. Keith is really busy trying to get some fabulous products ready for VBS 2013 and move offices. In an effort to chill him out (I mean help him out) a little, I am doing a Friday edition of VBS Geek of the Week.

This week’s Geek of the Week was discovered at our Nashville Previews in January. Angelia Stewart works as a 3rd and 4th grade Team Member for the Tennessee River Baptist Association. So without further adieu, lets find out what makes Angelia a VBS Geek of the Week.

What roles have you filled involving VBS?

I have served as a Director of VBS from Ocean Osydessy until last year when my family moved to a new church. I am now serving as the Music Leader in our current church.

What do you think is the most encouraging aspect of VBS?

The most encouraging thing about doing VBS year after year is seeing the faces of boys & girls as they discover Who Christ is & that He  loves them more than anything . . . no matter what their circumstances. The joy on their faces when they accept Christ as their Savior and experience the freedom that only He can give makes all the effort worth it!

What is your favorite VBS theme to date?

It is hard to pick one theme, but Saddle Ridge Ranch & Amazon Outfitters were probably my favorites.

What is your Geekiest VBS Moment?

For Rickshaw Rally, my husband made a rickshaw that we used to promote VBS. During VBS & after VBS I put it out in front of my house as landscaping. He had worked too hard to just toss it. Our neighbors would all laugh as they came to visit & say, “You might be a VBS junkie if you keep your decor as landscaping. And YOU MIGHT BE A VBS GEEK IF … every item you see you think about how it can be used with the VBS theme.”

Sneak Peek Week – Previews 2013

Can you believe it! VBS 2013 Previews begin ten months from this weekend and it’s time to get in line for tickets!

We will be giving you the 411 concerning locations, schedules, ticket pricing, etc. on June 4, but for those of you who like to make plans early here is what you need to know.

Ridgecrest Preview – January 11-12 (Ridgecrest Conference Center)
Fort Worth Preview – January 18-19 (Travis Avenue Baptist Church)
Nashville Preview 1 – January 31-February 1 (LifeWay Christian Resources)
Nashville Preview 2 – February 1-2 (LifeWay Christian Resources)
Orlando Preview – February 15-16 (First Baptist Church Kissimmee)

We are still working on details, but we just might be making an announcement about a first-ever one-day Preview scheduled for January 26. This is truly sneak peek information since most of our event team is seeing this information for the first time themselves.

Registration opens June 4 so get the dates of your favorite location on the calendar, invite a friend or two, and be ready to join the fun!

Winners of the VBS Scarves

Thanks to everyone who left a comment to win a pair of those fabulous VBS scarves. I used Radom.org to generate the three winning numbers.

Drumroll please. . .

The winners are  Konnie Smith, Carla Thompson, and Penny Mourer. Ladies if you would be so kind as to e-mail your mailing addresses to carol.tomlinson@lifeway.com, I will get those scarves packed up and in the mail ASAP.

Congratulations!