VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL

Registration for VBS 2024 opens April 2024

Who: Rising 6th-12th graders (including high school seniors graduating in May 2024)

What: Vacation Bible School 

Where: St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church

When: Prep Week: July 1-3  from 9am-12pm

VBS: July 8-12*  from 8:45am-12:15pm

*Note: the dates for VBS conflict with our Teen ACTS retreat, please be aware if attending Teen ACTS, you will not be present for final day of VBS

Why: VBS offers our teen volunteers the opportunity to grow in community with other teens at St. Mark, share their faith, earn service hours, and lead the participating children in grades K-5 to or at each station. 

Registration Fee: $15 for VBS will go toward t-shirt and snacks  - please bring exact change if paying with cash

there is no fee for VBS Prep Week!

 

Important Info: Teens do not have to help during Prep Week in order to volunteer for VBS, but every teen MUST attend a MANDATORY Training Session in order to be a volunteer during VBS! The training session is offered on Wednesday of Prep Week from 12-1pm and Sunday before VBS from 3:45-4:45pm. Location for each session will be in New Legacy.

On Friday, the last day of VBS, we ask that our volunteers stay until 1:00pm to help us clean and take down the decorations in the gym and classrooms. 

Service Hours: Teens will be asked to sign in every day, staff will use the attendance sheet to keep track of service hours. During Prep Week, up to 3 service hours are available each day, for a possible total of 9 service hours. During VBS, teens can earn up to 3.5 hours Monday - Thursday and 4.5 hours on Friday (with the extra hour of clean up), for a total of 18.5 hours. Teens must bring their own forms and service hour logs to receive credit for service hours. The only exception is if a teen's school or organization uses an online form. In this case, use mbyers@stmarkevangelist.com as the contact email address. 

 

If you have any questions, please contact Megan Byers

210-494-1959 ext. 332

mbyers@stmarkevangelist.com