TAKE YOUR VBS TO THE NEXT LEVEL WITH PROVEN STRATEGIES FROM A VETERAN CHILDREN’S LEADER
Ready to Take Your VBS to the Next Level?
Are you a children’s pastor staring down Vacation Bible School with no idea where to even begin? Or have you hosted VBS before and know there has to be a better way? It’s time to take it to the next level!
In Next Level VBS: A Practical Guide to Leading Vacation Bible School and Reaching Your Community, veteran children’s pastor David Reneau shares the time-tested, step-by-step guide you need to reach your community through one of the biggest outreaches in children’s ministry. Drawing on nearly 20 years of hands-on experience, he gives you a practical roadmap for a VBS that reaches the lost, invigorates your volunteers, and teaches everyone about Jesus.
Releases January 12, 2027
Are you a children’s pastor staring down Vacation Bible School with no idea where to begin? Or have you run VBS for years and know there has to be a better way? If you’ve led VBS before, you know it’s the biggest week of your year, and the hardest to pull off. It’s time to take it to the next level!
In Next Level VBS, veteran children’s pastor David Reneau offers a time-tested, step-by-step guide to running the biggest outreach on your calendar. Drawing on nearly 20 years of hands-on experience, David provides a practical roadmap for the pastor facing their first VBS and fresh strategy for the one who has already run a dozen.
This isn’t theory; it’s the system he actually built and used across years of leading this outreach. He gives you his calendar, his budget, and the conversations you need to have in the months before VBS week. Plus, every copy includes the templates, forms, and worksheets he used, free, ready to tailor to your ministry. Discover how to:
Start in September, Not April: Work a proven planning calendar that spreads the load across the whole year instead of the six weeks before.
Build a Lead Team That Lasts: Recruit, train, and keep volunteers who sign up again next summer instead of burning out by Wednesday.
Run Registration and Check-In That Holds: Move families through the door without your leaders quitting on Day 2.
Decorate Without Breaking the Budget: Build a room kids remember on money your church will actually approve.
Share the Gospel So Kids Understand: Use a word-for-word presentation, with props, that David and other ministry leaders have leaned on for years.
Follow Up So Guests Come Back: Two full chapters on exactly what to say and how to say it to turn a VBS family into a Sunday family.
Pick the Right Curriculum: Honest comparisons of Group, Amazing Life, and MEGA Sports Camp from a pastor who has switched between them.
David wrote the book he wishes he’d had at his first children’s ministry job. He had 10 weeks to prepare, a wedding on the way, a hundred kids coming, and no idea what he was doing. Next Level VBS is built to meet children’s pastors exactly where they are, whether this is their first VBS or their fifteenth.
If you’re ready to stop dreading the biggest week of your year and start leading it with confidence, Next Level VBS is your essential resource, complete with the free tools to put it to work.
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WHAT LEADERS ARE SAYING ABOUT NEXT LEVEL VBS
“VBS is a unique animal! It can be one of the most exciting weeks of the year while also the most overwhelming! In Next Level VBS, my friend, David Reneau, takes his years of experience and turns it into an incredibly practical roadmap for making VBS successful. What I love is that this isn’t a book filled with theories. David gives you the nuts and bolts of planning, recruiting, training, organizing, reaching families, and following up when the week is over. The wisdom in this book will save you hundreds of hours and dozens of mistakes. Best of all, he never loses sight of what VBS is really about: reaching kids and families with the Gospel!”
About David
David Reneau serves as Lead Pastor at Encounter Church in Toccoa, GA, alongside his wife Liz and son Caleb. With nearly 20 years of hands-on ministry experience, most of it in children’s ministry, David understands the unique challenges and incredible opportunities within Kidmin. That experience fuels his passion to equip and empower other church leaders to build thriving ministries, and it’s what both Next Level Kidmin and Next Level VBS are built on. When he’s not leading, you’ll find him discussing ministry, leadership, video games, and Star Wars, all rooted in his core mission: to develop an authentic faith in people that will last a lifetime.
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