Getting ready for the Big Apple Adventure 2011!

VBS 2011... The Big Apple Adventure! What a blessing IBC's VBS was to our family this year (and hopefully to many others). This is my 4th year serving at VBS and by far this year was the hardest and most rewarding. All the planning started back in Feb. of this year and I am just now getting my head out of the VBS fog just enough to blog about it... VBS at IBC is a well oiled machine... this year we had 380 children and 180 volunteers... and 5 days full of fun and many blessings... here are some pics to show you just some of the stages that had to get done before Day 1 of VBS...

Decorations started to go up the week before VBS... getting ready for the Big Apple Adventure... turning Singapore into New York City...


These buildings really lit up and the taxi head lights would turn off and on...this amazing stage was donated by an anonymous donor that saw a NEW YORK themed prom held at one of the huge hotels here (Marina Bay Sands) and cost over 10K.


The entrance of the church welcoming the children each morning.

Downstairs around the fellowship Hall was the underground subway system... check out those hand rails hanging from the ceiling... have you ever seen black Saran wrap... well I have now... rolls and rolls of it. And the upstairs hallway was painted (actually on the wall) the skyscraper scene of NYC. So amazing to see how much talent we have at IBC.

Some of our decorations were purchased by Lifeway but still our decor team had to add their final touches to it...

A shot of the stage with the lights out.... pretty nice huh... how about those shadow boxes...

The decor is up... and the music team is ready to go and teach the children all the songs and moves.

The Teachers are ready to go... they have prayed for all the children, gone over their material, collected all their supplies and ready to have some fun...

I had mentioned earlier that this VBS is a well oiled machine and it has to be... here is just a small example of how well... here is the schedule matrix of what each group of children will be doing in every 25 minutes of the day and where they will be doing it... at any time we can find a child and know which room they are in.

The T-shirts are complete and ready to worn by each child... every day... all the moms and dads are going to have to do a lot of washing this week.

The 3 directors... are PUMPED... a little crazy but ready for the day they have prayed for... for months... God is good!

And we have one excited boy... for his first VBS as a participant (and not in the nursery)... we have both been counting down for Day 1 to begin for weeks...

Stay Tuned for more pics... from Day 1 to Day 5 of VBS... a little late but better late than never :-).