VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL
Registration for Teen Volunteers for VBS 2026 is open!
Please email Megan Byers or Madison Pope for the registration link.
Who: Rising 6th-12th graders (including high school seniors graduating in May 2025)
What: Vacation Bible School
Where: St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church
When: Prep Week: July 13-17 from 9am-12pm
VBS: July 20-24 from 8:45am-12:15pm
Main Event celebration: Friday, July 25 from 1pm-3pm
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: $30 for VBS will go toward t-shirt, snacks, and Main Event - please bring exact change if paying with cash
We only have 30 spots for Teen Volunteers this summer! Teens volunteering for the week of VBS (July 20-24) MUST be present ALL 5 days in order to volunteer. Registration is not complete without payment which must be paid 2 weeks prior to the start of VBS (July 6). No registrations will be accepted after July 6th for VBS volunteers.
VBS Prep Week: There is no registration fee for VBS Prep Week, July 13-17). Teens do not need to help out every day of prep week in order to volunteer that week. Teens only helping during Prep Week do not need to attend a training.
Mandatory Training: 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, July 15th from 12-1pm and Sunday, July 19th 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 or Madison Pope
210-494-1959
Megan's ext: 332
Madison's ext: 346
mbyers@stmarkevangelist.com
mpope@stmarkevangelist.com
