Faith-based camps

Clear your whole VBS team before the first morning.

Vacation Bible School is one of the most volunteer-intensive weeks a church runs — dozens of teachers, crew leaders, and teen helpers with children all day, often pulled together at the last minute. VolunteerBadge screens every one of them for $5 with biometric identity verification, fast enough to clear the whole roster before opening day.

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The VBS screening crunch

Huge volunteer count

A single week can need 50–100 volunteers across every age group — far more people than your church screens the rest of the year combined.

Almost no lead time

Sign-ups land in the final days. You need a process that clears a last-minute helper in hours — not a two-week mail-in background check.

Clear the whole team in four steps

  1. 1

    Import or invite your roster

    Send one link to every VBS volunteer — directors, teachers, crew leaders, and teen helpers. No accounts to set up for them in advance.

  2. 2

    They verify in two minutes

    Each volunteer confirms their identity biometrically and signs FCRA consent from their phone — the step that stops someone using a borrowed or fake name.

  3. 3

    Checks return — usually same day

    Nationwide criminal, county confirmation, and a 50-state sex-offender registry search run automatically. You watch the roster turn green in real time.

  4. 4

    Walk in cleared on day one

    Anyone not cleared is flagged before VBS week starts, so every adult in a classroom has a documented, current background check on file.

VBS volunteer screening questions

Does our church really need to screen VBS volunteers if we know them?

Yes — and "we know them" is exactly the assumption abuse-prevention training warns against. Your insurer, denomination safe-church policy, and most state mandated-reporter rules expect a documented background check on every adult and teen volunteer working with children, familiar faces included.

We have 80 volunteers and one week. Can you handle that volume in time?

That is the exact problem VolunteerBadge is built for. You send one invite link to your whole team, each person verifies and consents from their phone in a couple of minutes, and most checks return same-day. A roster of 80 can be cleared in days, not weeks.

What does each volunteer check cost?

$5 per volunteer — the same FCRA-compliant, identity-verified check whether it is your VBS director or a teenage helper. No subscription required to run them.

Can volunteers reuse their clearance next summer or for Sunday school?

Yes. Each cleared volunteer keeps a re-verifiable badge they can carry into next year’s VBS, your youth ministry, or any other program, so you are not re-screening the same people every season.

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Invite your VBS team today and walk in with every volunteer cleared. $5 each, no subscription.

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