VBS Materials moved to Blogger

A while ago I secured free hosting for our Vacation Bible School materials.

Well, the free hosting didn't work out. The site was constantly going down, presumably because the free hosting service offered some things that are difficult to secure when the content providers are untrusted. More than half the time when I tried to update the content I was unable to do so, due to technical problems.

So I've moved it over to bibleschoolmaterials.blogspot.com and am now using Blogger to post the materials. One positive side of this is that it makes it easy (err, automatic, really) to keep an update history.

The downside is that it takes time to post things, since I can't just use FTP. (At least I'm *able* to post, though; with the hosting site, ftp was down half the time.) So far, all I've got up is the Bible lessons for 2007, and some general information. Nonetheless, it seems to be working out, so hopefully in the coming weeks I'll get things fleshed out over there.

Snow day? Work on VBS!

The library was closed on Tuesday, because they couldn't keep the walks clear, and on Wednesday due to the level 3 condition. Besides taking Puff for an hour-plus walk, shovelling a lot of snow, and visiting mom in rehab, we also worked a little on assorted bits and pieces of our Bible School Materials.

We now have patterns for the preschool sheep bank craft. The Saul & the Sheep filmstrip craft still needs the three pictures from the lesson, but we have the frame pattern done for it.

Memory verse lessons complete.

With the addition of the preschool verse, the memory verse lessons for God's Sheep are now complete.

Promotional materials for Bible School are online

Yesterday we worked on a poem that we intend to use as a dramatic reading in the church service, to announce Bible School to the congretation. We also finished up the fliers. So this morning I put our promotional materials online, or, at any rate, what we have done of them thus far: the poem, the poster, the fliers, the invitations, and a sample invitation letter similar to what we plan to mail-merge.

Any additional ideas for things we can do to help our congregation get excited about inviting children to Bible School this summer?

VBS Materials Online

The other day we did some more work on the Bible School materials, to the effect of three missions lessons, and I wanted to write about that here. But it seemed strange to do so without linking to the updated document. However, I had not, up to that point, gotten around to securing hosting for the materials and publishing them.

So now I have. Here they are. (Update: ZendURL didn't work out. Links updated.)

The new missions lessons are here. Meanwhile yesterday we wrote most of Tuesday's missions lesson as well, but I haven't got that one added to the HTML document yet (update: now I have, although it could use further work).