Important VBS Leader Information

Welcome to VBS 2026 - Illumination Station! Thank you for stepping up to serve as a VBS Leader! No matter your role this summer with VBS, you are an important part to the success of this fun-filled week.

Below you will find the VBS Leader Online Training. We ask all leaders (adults + students) to complete the training.

For any questions, please contact Adam Pharris at apharris@stevensstreet.org.

VBS Set-Up & Decorating

The church will be open from 9:00am - 4:00pm on Thursday, June 4 & Friday, June 5 for VBS Set-Up and Decorating. If you do not have a specific spot to decorate, we can still use your help in other areas of the church. We will have large rolls of butcher paper and special tape to use on the walls. Please use the main entrance on those days.

VBS Prayer Time

If you are planning to be at church decorating on Thursday and Friday, we will have a special prayer time at 10:30am in the Main Lobby. This will be a time for leaders to gather together to pray for VBS. If you aren’t able to be there those days, consider praying from wherever you are around 10:30am too.

Check-Out Procedure

Parents will be screened and approved in the lobby and not in the Worship Center. We will have leaders check off names in the lobby and call out the child’s name over a microphone in the Worship Center. Then, that child will exit the correct door to meet up with the approved adult. Please make sure to check off kids on your attendance sheet as their name is called. For Preschool Classes, sign-out will happen in your classroom. Please do not bring Preschool children into the Worship Center at the end of the closing rally.

VBS Shirt for Leaders

VBS Shirts are available for pick-up at the VBS Booth in the Main Lobby. Each VBS Leader will receive a free shirt. Others are available for at $10 donation.

VBS Leader Online Training

Step 1: Read the VBS Leader Handbook

Please take time to check out all of the information in the VBS Leader Handbook.

Step 2: Watch the VBS Leader Training Videos

Please watch each of the 5 Training Videos. You can watch them all at one time, or feel free to space them out.

Step 3: Background Check + Child Safety Training

All VBS Leaders (18+ years old) are required to complete a Background Check and a Child Safety Training. We have partnered with Ministry Safe to help with this process. If you have already completed this because you serve in the Preschool, Kids, or Student Ministries or another ministry opportunity, you do not need to complete it again.

If you need to complete them, you will receive two separate emails from Ministry Safe. Please complete them as soon as you can. The Child Safety Training will take approximately one hour to complete. The Background Check and Child Safety Training are valid for two years.

Step 4: Training Completion Form

After you have read through the VBS Leader Handbook, watched all five Training Videos, and completed the steps through Ministry Safe (if necessary), please fill out the Training Completion Form.