Vacation Bible School Coordinator

The Falls Church Anglican is seeking a contractor whose responsibility will be to serve on a team of Directors who will build and implement the VBS program this summer. They will collaborate with the Children & Family Ministries Team and church staff to support the departmental and church-wide goals. You will receive adequate training to be able to perform this role. 

Duties and Responsibilities:

Leadership

• Pray regularly for the children who will be coming, as well as all those who will be involved in this outreach event. 
• Work closely with the CFM staff to recruit VBS team leaders and volunteers.
• Plan and execute a week long, summer camp experience with a biblical foundation.
• Elements of the camp will include, Large group worship, Bible teaching, and skits; Small group activity rotations including snacks; Welcome and end of week celebration programs. 
• During the week, oversee activities and assist with discipline and first aid occurrences. 

Volunteer Team Management

• Review job descriptions for key leadership roles, including logistics, worship, prayer, drama, activity leaders, snacks, set-up, clean-up and squad leaders
• Recruit a leadership team and set a meeting schedule to organize the program’s events
• Determine dates for and facilitate leader/helper training sessions
• Oversee key leader responsibilities as they develop
• Organize daily staff meetings/devotions/hospitality during VBS week
• Determine follow-up strategies for participants as well as leaders/helpers

Logistics Oversight – duties may include:

• Communication with parents and outreach partners
• Registration
• Coordination of supplies, donations, and purchases. 
• Set daily schedule and squad rotation
• Coordination of supplies, donations, and purchases
• Relay any volunteers who need Child Safety Training to CFM Staff 
• Complete an after-action evaluation including feedback from volunteers, parents, and students. 

The Intangible Benefits of This Role

In your role as the VBS Coordinator, you will likely be challenged in some ways, but you’ll also be blessed in abundance. Here are some things you can expect: 

• Witnessing faith formation in children as they experience the love of Christ
• Building relationships with other adults, the children of your church, and the local community
• Growing in your own faith
• Affirmation of your gifts 
• Develop lasting friendships with other teachers/leaders
• Joy in seeing God at work through this ministry to children 

Ministry Calling

Employees of The Falls Church Anglican come together to serve God, one another, our congregation, our community and our world. As disciples of Christ, our employees steward their responsibilities with care, demonstrating the fruits of the Spirit in their daily responsibilities. We offer a workplace focused on the excellence that glorifies God as we perform our work, both in readiness to do our daily tasks and in embracing and knowing how the Word of God applies as we serve. We also model grace in our interactions, in thankfulness to the grace we are given in Christ.

We do not require all employees to be Anglicans, but because of our essential identity as a community of faith in Jesus Christ, we require all employees to wholeheartedly believe and confess that Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no one comes to the Father but by Him. As a community, we submit to the authority of the Holy Scriptures as the standard for Christian faith and life. We uphold the sanctity and dignity of human life, the creation of humankind in God’s image as male and female, and the unchangeable standard of Christian marriage between one man and one woman as the only proper place for sexual intimacy and the basis of the family.