Next summer, kids will explore the vastness of God’s character through the details of Scripture with Lifeway Christian Resources’ 2025 Vacation Bible School theme, “Magnified! Discovering the Bigness of God in the Smallest of Things.”
“When we stop and notice tiny things — the detail in a butterfly wing, the range of colors in a black bird’s feather, the refracted light in a single drop of dew — we begin to understand how amazingly creative God is,” said Melita Thomas, VBS and kids ministry specialist for Lifeway. “And our only response to seeing God’s greatness reflected in these intricate details is to praise Him. Or in other words, to magnify Him.”
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Zooming in on the tiniest details of creation, “Magnified!” VBS will encourage kids to look closely at the details of God’s amazing world to proclaim, or magnify, the greatness of God.
“Magnified!” features the theme verse Psalm 34:3: “Proclaim the Lord’s greatness with me; let us exalt his name together” (CSB). The motto is: “Made to magnify God!”
“Magnified!” includes the following daily focus points and Bible stories:
- Day 1: God sees me. Bible story: Jesus and the children.
- Day 2: God cares about me. Bible story: Jesus calmed the storm.
- Day 3: God loves me. Bible story: The woman at the well.
- Day 4: God forgives me. Bible story: Jesus and Nicodemus.
- Day 5: God keeps His promises. Bible story: Jesus taught about worry.
Through “Magnified!” VBS, kids will learn that God is not only the creator of all things but that He also cares about His creation down to the tiniest detail. The Bible says people are the most significant part of that creation, Thomas said. So next summer’s VBS positions churches to address kids’ core needs, affirming God cares about everything that happens to them.
“It’s our hope that every child who comes to a ‘Magnified!’ VBS next summer will come away knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is a God who loves them tremendously — so much so that He sent His Son to die for them,” Thomas said.
According to Lifeway Research, six in 10 Americans say they went to VBS growing up. Today, seven in 10 parents (69%) say they would encourage their child to attend VBS at a church they don’t attend if a friend invited them. Most American adults who attended VBS as children say they have positive memories of VBS and that it helped them understand the Bible better and positively influenced their spiritual growth.
More information about “Magnified!” can be found at vbs.lifeway.com.
EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Marissa Postell Sullivan and originally published by Lifeway.
