Vacation Bible School continues to be popular among American parents, even those who don’t regularly attend church, according to a recent report by LifeWay Research.
“Six in 10 Americans say they went to VBS growing up. Two-thirds of American parents say they plan to send kids to VBS this summer — even if they skip church themselves,” said LifeWay in a report released last week, titled “Even If They Don’t Go to Church, Americans Still Love VBS.”
LifeWay found that 60 percent of parents plan to send their children to VBS programs held at a church that they do not attend while 69 percent said they would send their child to a VBS program at a different church if their child was invited by a friend.
“Each week of the summer there are thousands of VBS programs going on around America,” said Scott McConnell, executive director of LifeWay Research, in a statement released last Thursday. “It’s one of the things that people love about church.”
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