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| This was my churches 1st year doing a HLA. Tonight is our last night. I would say our comittee was heistant at first to change from the "VBS" to the HLA but the curriculum won. We did our families by ages and we did not have enough volunteers to do the dramas. Everyone is loving the week and the message given to the children. As far as the ease of change - I think it may be easier than the other VBS from the committee stand point. Group lays everything out for each role - I handed out all the leader material 6 weeks prior to VBS so that each person took ownership of their role. This worked out great - our volunteers all came in costume and ready to teach the children. I am waiting to speak with my preschool leaders to see what they thought - some of the preschoolers were not ready to be with out thier parents (who happen to be volunteers) so they ended up with multi age groups. I hope this helps
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bethelvbs, you said you didn't have enough people to do the dramas - What did you do instead? We love the Egypt theme and overview, but would probably run into the same problem.
Thanks!
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| I'm not bethelvbs, but we didn't have anyone to do the dramas either and we just didn't do them. Not the best situation, but I don't think it detracted from the program. It certainly would have been better if we did them, but I would not give up on a holyand vbs just because you can't do the dramas. Next year I am really going to try to get people to stretch out of their comfort zone and give it a try. It will be our 3rd Holyland and I think my volunteers really got into it even more this year so I will see if I can get them to just add one more thing to their evening and be in a drama. That way I won't need additional people, I'll use the ones I already have. Another thing is, I will be sure to emphasize that volunteers like shopkeepers and drama people don't need to be there the whole time. I felt bad because I had shopkeepers just hanging around the first night with nothing to do while kids were at other stations. (But we are a small vbs and only had one shop rotation) Another option I read about on this board was videotaping the dramas ahead of time and then showing them each evening. Again, not perfect but sometimes you have to make do. Christine
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| Have you all tried recruiting your teens for the dramas?? Our teens did all our Rome dramas and they did a GREAT job! Even though a lot of our kids knew the teens, it didn't distract from the drama at all. They love the stories and really react to what the actors are doing. We had adults doing the Paul, Brutus, and Underground Church members but the other dramas were done by the teens and we didn't have any problems at all. Good luck!
Susan in Arizona
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| We were having trouble recruiting for the dramas when my co-leader had the idea to ask some retirees. They were thrilled to be asked, and really got into their parts.
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