VBS Toolkit

A guide for a successful missions focus.

Thank you for dedicating time during your VBS to share the ministry of the Missouri Baptist Children’s Home (MBCH)! Here are some ideas for engaging children at VBS and ways they can support MBCH.

Ways to Engage During VBS

Pray

Have a time of prayer using the points below to guide you. We’ve included printable templates you can give to children at VBS that they can take home to remember to continue praying.

  • Please pray for our Foster Parents as they work to help our kids who have been through unspeakable traumas.
  • Please pray for parents who struggle with mental health and substance abuse issues
  • Please be in prayer for our agency as we seek to find relatives to care for children/youth in state custody and as we seek to recruit foster parents to care for children/youth. These children are in desperate need of a home where they will find love and care. Please pray that God will help us find new ways to reach out to potential relative foster parents and foster parents. 

You can find more prayer requests at mbch.org/campus-needs-and-prayer.

Serve

Explore our Mission Projects Booklet for inspiration on how your VBS can assist MBCH. Inside, you’ll find a diverse range of collection suggestions, mini-events, and interactive ideas to help support MBCH.

Give

Whether it’s financial giving or a collection of items there are several different ways that

you can give to MBCH. Explore our Mission Projects Booklet to find ways how your 

group can give.

Koins4Kids

Kids helping kids! Get your children involved in helping other kids who are hurting and in need. Have your kids create their piggy banks to collect coins for MBCH and The LIGHT House.

Do this with your kids at home or a Sunday school class but take the opportunity to teach them what it means to give to those in need.

  1. Ask your children to help us! Kids love to get involved in this project and you may be surprised at how fast your Mission Friends, RAs, GAs, AWANAs, or VBS accumulate coins.
  2. Make piggy banks out of soda cans or jars.
  3. Have a “Koins4Kids Party” to launch the drive. Play games, provide refreshments, and apply the labels to your cans or jars.
  4. Ask the kids and their families to return their banks on a certain date (usually at least 30 days from distribution). You may have them bring them to the front of the church or a special collection display.
  5. Reward success. You may want to encourage competition between groups by weighing their coins or simply counting the money. Make it fun!
  6. Announce the results of your efforts and celebrate what the Lord has done through your church to touch the lives of children.
  7. Deposit the money at your local bank and send a check to MBCH, 11300 St. Charles Rock Road, Bridgeton, MO 63044. Send a brief story and pictures of your activity to social.media@mbch.org to be included in MBCH publicity.