Vacation Bible School and Community Engagement

Executive summary

Vacation Bible School (VBS) is one of the most widely deployed children's ministry programmes across Protestant Christianity, with LifeWay resources alone reaching over 25,000 churches and 3 million participants annually for 95 years. Within Adventism, VBS operates under the Children's Ministries department and is widely used in North America, the South Pacific, and other English-speaking divisions. Cross-denominational evidence strongly supports VBS as an effective community engagement tool — i...