{"id":32818,"date":"2022-09-10T16:24:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/episode-44-study-reveals-americans-appreciation-of-vacation-bible-school\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T16:24:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:24:25","slug":"episode-44-study-reveals-americans-appreciation-of-vacation-bible-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/episode-44-study-reveals-americans-appreciation-of-vacation-bible-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 44: Study Reveals Americans\u2019 Appreciation of Vacation Bible School"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4158\"> http:\/\/ministrysites.s3.amazonaws.com\/podcasts\/keepasking\/EP50_KEEPASKING.mp3<\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: Play in new window &#8211; Download<\/p>\n<p> The team discusses data on American participation and positivity regarding VBS.<\/p>\n<p>Summary:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A surprisingly high number (60%) of American adults say they attended VBS when they were growing up<\/li>\n<li>9 out of 10 who attended VBS growing up have positive memories of VBS<\/li>\n<li>VBS has been around a long time&#8211;started in the 1890s<\/li>\n<li>22% of American adults say they attended VBS every summer when they were growing up<\/li>\n<li>42% say the reason they attended was their parents attended the church where they went to VBS<\/li>\n<li>26% of American adults say the church was in or close to their neighborhood<\/li>\n<li>Almost half of parents (with kids under age 18) have had a child attend VBS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A special thanks to Lifeway Kids for sponsoring this research project!<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to Tweet your questions and comments to us: @LifewayResearch and individually: @smcconn, @statsguycasey, and @lizettebeard. Join us next time for another edition of Keep Asking.<\/p>\n<p><em>Additional resources:<\/em><\/p>\n<div class='code-block code-block-1' style='margin: 8px 0;clear: both'> <\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Even If They Don\u2019t Go to Church, Americans Still Love VBS by Lifeway Research<\/li>\n<li>Invite a Friend to VBS! New Research Shows It Still Works! by Lifeway Kids<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-website yarpp-template-thumbnails'>\n<h3>Related posts:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"yarpp-thumbnails-horizontal\">  A Solution to Your VBS Volunteer Problem  The Most Critical Event on Your Church\u2019s Calendar This Year  What the Church Must Do to Keep Kids\u2014and Parents\u2014Spiritually Engaged <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/ministrysites.s3.amazonaws.com\/podcasts\/keepasking\/EP50_KEEPASKING.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window &#8211; Download The team discusses data on American participation and positivity regarding VBS. Summary: A surprisingly high number (60%) of American adults say they attended VBS when they were growing up 9 out of 10 who attended VBS growing up have positive memories of VBS VBS has been around &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/episode-44-study-reveals-americans-appreciation-of-vacation-bible-school\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Episode 44: Study Reveals Americans\u2019 Appreciation of Vacation Bible School&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}