Drive-thrus aren’t just for fast food.

The pandemic-adapted Bluffton Community Vacation Bible School will lead children on a discovery of Who Is My Neighbor? Learning to Love Like Jesus over five weeks this summer. 

Children will complete each session in their own homes.

Spreading out VBS over the course of five weeks instead of five consecutive days is intended to give children and families something to look forward to throughout our pandemic summer days. 

Rooted in Mark 12:28-31, children will expand their understanding of who their neighbors are and what it means to be a loving neighbor through a combination of short videos, Bingo cards, and drive-thru pick-ups of craft kits, game supplies, and snack shopping lists, according to this year’s VBS planning committee. 

Videos will be released on a weekly basis beginning the week of Sunday, June 7, when VBS was originally scheduled. Drive-thrus are slated every Thursday from 6-7 p.m., beginning Thursday, June 11, and will continue over the course of five weeks. 

No registration is required: 
If children and their families are unable to participate in the drive-thru to pick up their kits, they can stop in the Jackson Street entrance of First Mennonite Church where extra kits will be available for pick-up at any time.  

This new schedule and structure may also provide wider access to more children in case families are out-of-town or unable to participate during a particular week, or simply unable to accommodate the drive-thru time slot, since both the videos and the kits will be accessible any time. 

The All Ability Playgrounds of Allen County fundraising project is the designated recipient of this year’s VBS offering. 

The Allen County Board of Developmental Disabilities and the Arc of Allen County are collaborating on this project; for more information, check out the website: https://allabilityplayground.org/. 

Offering will be collected during the drive-thru pick-up times or can be mailed to:
 Bluffton Community VBS 
c/o First Mennonite Church 
101 S Jackson St, 
Bluffton, OH, 45817 

If we can collect at least $100, the Bluffton Community VBS will reach the Swing Level of donors and will have a name placard on one of the playgrounds. 

Check for updates on the Bluffton VBS Facebook page.