Here are a few questions to help you think through your timing and schedule: - Go back to your goals and priorities for the event. Does your schedule support them? - What’s the most challenging part of your schedule (dismissal was a common answer on the call today!) and what can you do to improve it? - Which part of a VBS schedule do you think has the biggest impact on the overall experience and why? Does this part of the schedule need more time or intentionality? - What’s your method for keeping things on track/on schedule? Have you communicated this to your team and leads? - Is there any part of your schedule that needs simplifying? (maybe cutting or combining elements?)

We're so excited for our next call today at 2pm ET/12pm MT! We'll be talking all about building a VBS program that works and specifically diving into building out rotations, timing, large group & small group time. Bring your questions/challenges/ideas to share, and we'll see you this afternoon!

We had a great conversation on our Zoom call this afternoon! Thanks to everyone who joined us! Share below: What's one next step you're taking to move forward with your VBS planning after our call today? Could be something specific we talked about or something more general. Let's cheer each other on!

Sharing the PDF's here as well of our rotation schedule and Market Place (craft rooms) Schedule. You will notice on the rotation schedule it says when they go to the Market. The Market Schedule lets them know which market they go to. Both Schedules are in the Leader Handbook and posted in the hallway of the Market Place. It can be tricky to figure out at first, but the volunteers love it! They like that they only have to learn one craft for the whole week and they only have 3 crews of kids per day instead of all 200+ each day.

Thanks for a great Zoom call today! I want to start the discussion on Volunteer Training. How do you typically facilitate it? We have over 100 volunteers so trying to get them all together seems challenging! In the past it's been a luncheon and slideshow but I want to make it more engaging! Maybe livestream it? An evening instead of a Sunday afternoon? Childcare? Alllll the thoughts! Thanks for sharing!