I was asked to decorate this classroom for an Elder that is teaching the class of middle school students. You can find the material here. The teachers and students are really enjoying the study! This post is just ideas for decorating a Bible class with any FBI or Investigators theme. You can click here to purchase the material with more ideas and posters. I kept the door simple. I had cut the paper to totally cover the door, but as I began to put it together, I figured with kids, I would just be fighting to keep the background up for a year. So, I cut it down and used this. I have Duct Tape I use for my IFA classroom and used it at the top and bottom to secure the paper. (Although, I just used rolled up masking tape to attach it to the door.) Click here to download some of the misc. posters I created. For the FBI Watch List, I originally used this idea in my IFA Acts study class. I put two poster boards together and used the Duct Tape around the outside edges to make a border. You can find decorative Duct tape just about anywhere to use. This is the first quarter and will be the few things I will change each quarter. You can download (Genesis) the first quarter here. This includes the title and shield. I used rubber cement to attach the wanted people. This glue will allow me to peel them off each quarter and attach the new people. The second quarter begins with Moses. You can download the 2nd quarter wanted set here. A Creation poster comes with the visuals, which you can see below. So, I removed it for the study about Moses and added this 10 Commandments Poster. Click here to download it. The sets for the third and fourth quarter will be added as they are created for the class. I found these decorations for this wall here. I love it! A whole wall was complete once we cut it and stapled it! This room is supposed to look more like an office, than say, a room decorated for VBS. This was the only request for the room! This is on the main wall that students see when they enter the room. I left the bulletin board as a cork board since it looks more like an office. I made a large banner to go above the bulletin board with the title and color decorative masking tape for the sides. We ran out of room for all the student posters, so I stapled the teacher's poster and the decorative poster on the wall along the side of the bulletin board. You can find the yellow tape here that is along the bottom. Beside the above bulletin board, is this map that will be changed each quarter and the posters that you can purchase with the material. Click here to download some of the posters I used (including the earth symbol above). The evidence boxes are an idea I found on Pinterest. These are stacked at the end of the wall with the computer monitors. I also found the Investigator shadow here. I just enlarged that onto black bulletin board paper and added the yellow paper for the light beam. The white board is on the right of this. On the other side of the white board is this Bible investigation area. There is a Bible timeline that I placed in the corner at about eye level. There are some posters that comes with the FBI box. I also added some posters that will cover each quarter. Click here for the posters. The bookshelf holds class and office supplies. The Bibles are also here... right next to the Bible investigation corner. I found this Height Chart idea and since the item is not for sale any longer, I made one. This is right next to the door, where you typically see them. This was also used for the student's Most Wanted Posters. I just used white bulletin board paper and a ruler, but I used my Cricut machine to cut the numbers. The last photo is the general look of the room. You can see the tables lined up with cubicles attached to them to look like an office. This idea is in the FBI manual, and you can purchase it here to see more. You can find more ideas and printables here. There are posters and bulletin board printables and ideas here. You can find more investigation ideas on my Pinterest board here.

Well right now, I have the theme song from this year's VBS in my head and I just can't get it out!! It will probably be stuck there for a ...

I was asked to decorate this classroom for an Elder that is teaching the class of middle school students. You can find the material here. The teachers and students are really enjoying the study! This post is just ideas for decorating a Bible class with any FBI or Investigators theme. You can click here to purchase the material with more ideas and posters. I kept the door simple. I had cut the paper to totally cover the door, but as I began to put it together, I figured with kids, I would just be fighting to keep the background up for a year. So, I cut it down and used this. I have Duct Tape I use for my IFA classroom and used it at the top and bottom to secure the paper. (Although, I just used rolled up masking tape to attach it to the door.) Click here to download some of the misc. posters I created. For the FBI Watch List, I originally used this idea in my IFA Acts study class. I put two poster boards together and used the Duct Tape around the outside edges to make a border. You can find decorative Duct tape just about anywhere to use. This is the first quarter and will be the few things I will change each quarter. You can download (Genesis) the first quarter here. This includes the title and shield. I used rubber cement to attach the wanted people. This glue will allow me to peel them off each quarter and attach the new people. The second quarter begins with Moses. You can download the 2nd quarter wanted set here. A Creation poster comes with the visuals, which you can see below. So, I removed it for the study about Moses and added this 10 Commandments Poster. Click here to download it. The sets for the third and fourth quarter will be added as they are created for the class. I found these decorations for this wall here. I love it! A whole wall was complete once we cut it and stapled it! This room is supposed to look more like an office, than say, a room decorated for VBS. This was the only request for the room! This is on the main wall that students see when they enter the room. I left the bulletin board as a cork board since it looks more like an office. I made a large banner to go above the bulletin board with the title and color decorative masking tape for the sides. We ran out of room for all the student posters, so I stapled the teacher's poster and the decorative poster on the wall along the side of the bulletin board. You can find the yellow tape here that is along the bottom. Beside the above bulletin board, is this map that will be changed each quarter and the posters that you can purchase with the material. Click here to download some of the posters I used (including the earth symbol above). The evidence boxes are an idea I found on Pinterest. These are stacked at the end of the wall with the computer monitors. I also found the Investigator shadow here. I just enlarged that onto black bulletin board paper and added the yellow paper for the light beam. The white board is on the right of this. On the other side of the white board is this Bible investigation area. There is a Bible timeline that I placed in the corner at about eye level. There are some posters that comes with the FBI box. I also added some posters that will cover each quarter. Click here for the posters. The bookshelf holds class and office supplies. The Bibles are also here... right next to the Bible investigation corner. I found this Height Chart idea and since the item is not for sale any longer, I made one. This is right next to the door, where you typically see them. This was also used for the student's Most Wanted Posters. I just used white bulletin board paper and a ruler, but I used my Cricut machine to cut the numbers. The last photo is the general look of the room. You can see the tables lined up with cubicles attached to them to look like an office. This idea is in the FBI manual, and you can purchase it here to see more. You can find more ideas and printables here. There are posters and bulletin board printables and ideas here. You can find more investigation ideas on my Pinterest board here.

Well right now, I have the theme song from this year's VBS in my head and I just can't get it out!! It will probably be stuck there for a ...

I should probably give you a little background here, in case you don't know. I am the coordinator for the Sunday School kiddos at my chu...

I was asked to decorate this classroom for an Elder that is teaching the class of middle school students. You can find the material here. The teachers and students are really enjoying the study! This post is just ideas for decorating a Bible class with any FBI or Investigators theme. You can click here to purchase the material with more ideas and posters. I kept the door simple. I had cut the paper to totally cover the door, but as I began to put it together, I figured with kids, I would just be fighting to keep the background up for a year. So, I cut it down and used this. I have Duct Tape I use for my IFA classroom and used it at the top and bottom to secure the paper. (Although, I just used rolled up masking tape to attach it to the door.) Click here to download some of the misc. posters I created. For the FBI Watch List, I originally used this idea in my IFA Acts study class. I put two poster boards together and used the Duct Tape around the outside edges to make a border. You can find decorative Duct tape just about anywhere to use. This is the first quarter and will be the few things I will change each quarter. You can download (Genesis) the first quarter here. This includes the title and shield. I used rubber cement to attach the wanted people. This glue will allow me to peel them off each quarter and attach the new people. The second quarter begins with Moses. You can download the 2nd quarter wanted set here. A Creation poster comes with the visuals, which you can see below. So, I removed it for the study about Moses and added this 10 Commandments Poster. Click here to download it. The sets for the third and fourth quarter will be added as they are created for the class. I found these decorations for this wall here. I love it! A whole wall was complete once we cut it and stapled it! This room is supposed to look more like an office, than say, a room decorated for VBS. This was the only request for the room! This is on the main wall that students see when they enter the room. I left the bulletin board as a cork board since it looks more like an office. I made a large banner to go above the bulletin board with the title and color decorative masking tape for the sides. We ran out of room for all the student posters, so I stapled the teacher's poster and the decorative poster on the wall along the side of the bulletin board. You can find the yellow tape here that is along the bottom. Beside the above bulletin board, is this map that will be changed each quarter and the posters that you can purchase with the material. Click here to download some of the posters I used (including the earth symbol above). The evidence boxes are an idea I found on Pinterest. These are stacked at the end of the wall with the computer monitors. I also found the Investigator shadow here. I just enlarged that onto black bulletin board paper and added the yellow paper for the light beam. The white board is on the right of this. On the other side of the white board is this Bible investigation area. There is a Bible timeline that I placed in the corner at about eye level. There are some posters that comes with the FBI box. I also added some posters that will cover each quarter. Click here for the posters. The bookshelf holds class and office supplies. The Bibles are also here... right next to the Bible investigation corner. I found this Height Chart idea and since the item is not for sale any longer, I made one. This is right next to the door, where you typically see them. This was also used for the student's Most Wanted Posters. I just used white bulletin board paper and a ruler, but I used my Cricut machine to cut the numbers. The last photo is the general look of the room. You can see the tables lined up with cubicles attached to them to look like an office. This idea is in the FBI manual, and you can purchase it here to see more. You can find more ideas and printables here. There are posters and bulletin board printables and ideas here. You can find more investigation ideas on my Pinterest board here.

It’s been an event filled week–the kind that seems impossible to hold all that it did; but here we are, the Monday after, and there’s a mind cellar full of newly canned memories to last us a very long time. Thank God I got the analogy of the day over with. That was stressing me... {Read the post}

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VBS 2016 A Detective Mystery This year's VBS was a hit! A mixture of old school Sherlock Holme's and seeking God's clue's in His word. We also did a musical which a friend of mine wrote just for this VBS. It was a huge success and I realized how much the kids love acting. This was a 5 day, 2 hours each day VBS. I went thru the 5 basic questions every detective must ask when given a case....Who? Where? What? Why? and How? Example of Day 1- Day #1 Who is Yeshua. (God’s son, our Saviour, miracles?) There is only one Man who has fulfilled all prophecies….Yeshua (Evidence that Demands a Verdict) (for lesson, create a “evidence board” with the labels of all the who, what, where, why, how, . Need cork board and red yarn, and point labels) Welcome- Welcome to God’s Detective Academy, where we train the most elite Truth Seeker Detectives in this day and age. You my young detectives will learn how to search God’s word for truth . And when you seek…you shall find! Things will be revealed to you that will help you understand your mission….IF YOU CHOOSE to ACCEPT. The Bible will send you on many missions in life, but you must have the accurate information. You must study your manual, take notes if need be and you will graduate from this academy at the end of the week a super sleuth for God! The Game’s Afoot!! Give Clue #1- (write down the clues in your notepad. You will have 3 a day ) I was up, then I was down and now I am up again and all around. Rules Worship: Lesson: Case #1. WHO IS YESHUA? Today we are going to talk about Yeshua/Jesus. Some say He was just a man, a teacher, a prophet. Or was He more? Son of God, Savior, Healer? Ok, dectectives, where do we start? Oh, our manual, which is the Bible. Ok, got that. Now what? Well, a good detective asks these 5 questions: Who? What? Where? Why? And How? Who Is Yeshua? Matthew 3:17 says that He is God’s Son! God spoke from heaven and said,” this is my Son in whom I am well pleased” If you are taking notes, I would write that verse down and all information we discuss. You never know when you need it during a case. The manual is SO clear. This clue wasn’t too hard to find. What did He do? Since Yeshua was the Son of God, He did a lot of amazing things. He did miracles like feeding 5000 people from 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish.(Matt 14.)And still had 12 baskets left over. He helped and healed people. They were healed from sickness, diseases, blindness and He even brought the dead to life. The most important and wonderful thing He did was die on the cross for us. Our sin equals death and separation from God. But Jesus loves us SO much that He took that death for us, and gave us a way to repent and say sorry so that we can be with God. Wow! He is amazing. I think we are on the right track, the evidence on Jesus is telling us who and what He did so far. Next….. Where is He? Hebrews 8:1 in our manual tells us. We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of theMajesty in the heavens. He is in heaven, on His throne where a King should be. But now our next question is Why? Why did He die for us? Our sin equals death and separation from God. But Jesus loves us SO much that He took that death for us, and gave us a way to repent and say sorry so that we can be with God. Because He loves us Object Lesson:(Wear Goggles and lab coat) http://www.madaboutjesus.net/nothinggoldcanstay.html How? How did Yeshua do all these things? How did He do miracles and and heal so many. I think our evidence and clues lead us right back to Who He is, which is God’s Son. He is Diety. He is King. He knows all. I think we got this mystery all figured out. Way to go detectives. We discovered who Yeshua was by following the evidence in God’s Word, every good detective’s manual. I will see you tomorrow as we unravel another mystery. Until then study your Manuals. I’m off! Mysterious Bible Verse: 1 John 3:16 “ By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. “ Puppet Skit: Clue #2 I have a cousin who is 6 months older than me. Break into Group rotations 1 hour Return to Head Quarters Clue #3 (have kids guess answer) I love each of you. I heal, save and deliver. I died for you. Who am I? Recite Super Slueth Motto Dismiss Day #2 Seek the Truth Day #3 Holy Spirit Helps Reveal Day #4 Diligence: Test your Hypothesis Day #5 Be A Light for Yeshua We also rotated the kids for the last hour of the day. They visited a new room every night. Example: Room 1: Judy’s Lightbulb Lab- (Fellowship Hall #1) White lab coats(disposable), protective glasses, and plastic gloves, lab coat for judy http://www.mrdisposable.com/product/LC5 “Be a Light” Kids will do “Light” experiments. Mission Envelope(devo)- This is your mission if you choose to accept. “ Be a Light” Give clue #2 Be a light Devo(5 min) Verse: Matt 5:16 “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.” (black light verse find) Black light and invisible pen messages-Go around the room and reveal messages on yellow posterboard with black light(5min). Lemons and lightbulbs—God uses the most unlikely sources Light Reveals hidden sin-Microscope time-(10 min) Use Microscopes and look at things under special light to reveal the tiniest things. Craft-(20 min)Be a light in the Darkness-mason jars, glow in dark paint, brushes, rope with verse printed. Snack(10 min)-glow in dark jello( kosher LIME jello, tonic water,whip cream, sprinkles, plates, spoons Game-(10 min) glow in dark ring toss Truth Seekers Room Room 2- Truth Seekers Room-Where we learn to seek the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth! Room 3-Evidence Room--Where we look at all the evidence closely so we don't miss the clues. every good detective needs a cape! Evidence Room- figure out the parable Cracking Codes Room 4- Code Cracking Class-Where we learn how the Holy Spirit helps reveal the mysteries of God's word. a message REVEALED!! Room 5-Hypothesis Testing Room- Where we are instructed to test everything and compare it to the Bible to find out weather it is true or not. What is VBS without detective Petey!! Super Slueth Motto: We seek and we shall find The Truths God left behind. For we shall follow the clues, And find Yeshua’s Good News! handmade magnifying glass evidence bags name tags and each child got a notebook (5 different groups 5 different colored name tags) If you would like the complete lesson plan and room ideas..please contact me! I'd be happy to help! Blessings in Yeshua, Jen

Last night was our association's VBS training. We had over 200 teachers, directors and pastors attend! (And 25 attend from my church!) It was a great night of fellowship, excitement and learning. If you are doing Lifeway Agency D3 in your church, perhaps these pictures will inspire you! I mustache you a question, but I'll shave it for later. I have to say, I'm excited to have an excuse to decorate with mustaches! (I even saw mustache duct tape being used last night!) I co-lead the director's training. This table is all I had time to take a picture of. This was an extra display area. My boys helped with it. They had so much fun dragging out all their old spy gear/gadgets from years ago. (When they really thought they were spies!) The bigger pieces were made by someone else, but the gadgets are just scattered around the table.) Who has a lava lamp? Perfect for Agency D3! Entrance to the Craft Lab. Displayed on the table in our room. I used black sheets for tablecloths. Undercover Spy Watches. These are Lifeway Craft Packs. I had fun making these. By the 3rd or 4th one, I finally figured out the best way! We used these in the training for discovering the 6 steps to recruiting and training workers. If you are planning to make these watches, I highly recommend Glue Dots! (They are not included in the pack.) Evidence Boxes Something as simple as small memo tablets. Goes with the theme, can be used in the classroom, and adds color! The spy glasses are going to be so much fun! (One tip: leave them off when teaching children. Eye contact is so important!!) Last year, I wish I had bought stock in swim noodles. This year it's manilla envelopes! The investigation tape as a table runner...I like it! Brilliant idea when you don't have time to decorate everything! Fun revolving "siren" light! (No sound) Glow sticks in upside down jars...brilliant and easy! Just a thought..... I have noticed some pins on Pinterest showing ideas for making "bombs" for the Agency D3 Theme. This doesn't seem like the best idea to me. There are so many other fun ideas...why have something that could strike fear in the heart of a child? If you want to try out those "cute" ideas at your child's spy birthday party, go for it. I just think we need to avoid it in our churches. (A Good alternative is to make "rocket packs" that look like Rocket Pack Jack from the daily movie.)

So this year is the first year I am seriously volunteering at my church's vacation bible school. Last year I helped out in the nursery ...