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Vision and Goal
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Decoration Ideas
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Day-By-Day Instructions
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Video Guide
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Donations

Many Upper New York churches requested to include Imagine
No Malaria as a mission focus for one or all of the days of their
VBS program.
Imagine No Malaria is the extraordinary effort of the United
Methodist Church to raise $75 million for the prevention and treatment of malaria. 95% of malaria infections are in sub-
Saharan Africa and kill one person every minute. Most deaths are pregnant women and children under 5. Upper New York churches, perhaps your church, have united together to raise
$1 million dollars to save 100,000 lives from malaria this year.
$10 buys an insecticide treated bed net - the best way to prevent malaria, the best way to save a life. With your kids during VBS, what is a good goal for the number of lives to save?
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Determine how many lives you will save with your VBS team
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Ask if the church or a committee/small group will match what kids bring (ex. $200 match)
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Include Imagine No Malaria with VBS promotion

- Choose a space most parents will see as they enter and leave
(narthex, by the front door etc.)
- Hang up a bed net or white/blue tulle securely on a wall
- Buy a few yards of different colored tulle to twist around and add color to the display
- With extra-large cardboard and sharpie, write out “Imagine
No Malaria”
- On an large posterboard, cut out a half dome. Decorate to look like an odometer, with the marks being your fundraising goal. Cut out an arrow to use as your indicator
- On different pieces of cardboard or cardstock, write/type out these facts:
- Malaria is 100% preventable, treatable, and beatable
- One person dies every minute from malaria
- 90% of all malaria is found in sub-Saharan Africa
- Over 95% of malaria deaths are children under 5 and pregnant women
- $10 buys an insecticide-treated bed net
- $5 provides a full round of malaria treatment
- United Methodists have raised $67 million of our $75 million goal through
Imagine No Malaria
- Imagine No Malaria focuses on prevention, treatment, education, and communication to eradicate malaria
- Order fly swatters, stickers, and posters for free to decorate your display at www.imaginenomalaria.org/resources

- Large white poster board
- Paint or sharpies to decorate odometer
- Cardstock to make odometer arrow
- Bed net (Amazon, Sport’s Authority, Dick’s Sporting Goods) OR blue or white tulle (Joann’s, Hobby Lobby) to represent a bed net
- Different colored tulle (Joann’s, Hobby Lobby)
- Cardboard squares or Different colored cardstock
(order for free at www.imaginenomalaria.org
/resources)
- Donation Banks
- Mosquito Stickers
- Fly Swatters (for prizes or decorations, can also be found at dollar stores)
- Posters
- Paper (for Daily Challenges)

For churches that have already covered Imagine No Malaria facts, feel free to adapt the information that reflects the knowledge of your group but remember that VBS often draws new students!
Video Suggestion: Please check out the video guide provided below to access videos mentioned
Daily Challenge: Suggested activity to helps kids learn more about Imagine No
Malaria
Prizes: If you’d like to offer a prize to one person (randomly or by answering a question/completing a task) here are some ideas:
- If you had multiple children complete a task, pass out mosquito stickers from www.imaginenomalaria.org/resources
- Giving them the “Golden Fly Swatter”: fly swatter spray painted gold
- Give them a mosquito repellent clip or safe repellent to keep mosquitos away from them!
- Have the church donate a bed net to Imagine No Malaria in their honor!

Introduction
Script for stage leader
- Raise your hand if you’ve been bitten by a mosquito?
- What happens when you get bit by a mosquito? (Get two or three answers)
- What is a disease that can be carried by mosquitos? (say malaria if someone doesn’t)
- Malaria is a disease that is carried by mosquitos in other parts of the world. So when people in places like Africa get bit, they can get sick.
But you will not get sick with malaria in America if you get bit by a mosquito
(emphasize that we will NOT catch malaria if we live in the United States)
- Malaria kills one person every minute, though it’s preventable. What does preventable mean? (One or two answers)
- We know how to prevent malaria with bed nets that protect people while they sleep for $10
- So this is a disease that hurts a lot of people in Africa every day. This week we’re going to learn about malaria and how to help kids like you in countries in Africa be protected.
Closing
Suggested video: Leo and Kya
Script for stage leader
- We learned to today that God requires us to move in the world. To love people and protect them, and we want to do that for friends with malaria.
- Getting bit by mosquitos is not fun, and we’re blessed that we can’t catch malaria when we are bit here in America. So we will move to help those that do get sick.
Daily Challenge: We want to learn about the people that are affected by malaria. On your way out you are going to get a map of Africa where 90% of malaria deaths are.
- Tonight, we want you to color or label the different countries. You can ask your parents to look at a map or go on the internet with them to help.
- You can color the countries different colors or you can write their names on them.
- There are 55 countries in Africa! The student that names the most countries on their sheet and brings it back tomorrow gets a special prize!
Pass out sheets to each child on the way out

A F R I C A
90% of all malaria deaths are in sub- Saharan Africa.
Label or color the countries below and bring it back to Day 2 of G-Force!

Introduction
Suggested video: Ministry Overview
Script for stage leader
- Alright, raise your Africa maps if you colored or labeled them last night! (kids raise them)
- Did anyone label all of the countries? (cheer them on if they did)
- Can anyone name three countries of Africa without looking at their map? (one or two answers)
- Pass down your maps to your leader. We’ll hang them up so you can see them all week!
- Today we’re learning about how God calls us to act to help others. Now that we know where malaria is, in Africa, we’re going to learn how to act to help people that suffer from this preventable disease!
Closing
Script for stage leader
Hold up a $10 bill.
- Has anyone here spent $10 on something? What did you buy? (one or two answers?)
- What else could we buy for $10 (a bed net)
Hold up a bed net or tulle if you have one
- Bed nets are treated with insecticide and cost $10. Because the mosquito that spreads malaria in Africa mostly bites at night, these nets save lives.
Daily Challenge: How can you act this week to save lives? As Christians we believe that everything is God’s, including the money and time He gives us. How can we give it back to Him by saving a life?
- As you leave you’ll get a sheet of ideas to raise money to save lives from malaria this week and summer. Choose one tonight and come back ready to tell us about it tomorrow!

$10 buys an insecticide-treated bed net and can protect
2-3 people in sub- Saharan Africa from malaria.
Choose an idea below or come up with your own that you could do this week or summer to save lives through bed nets!
Make sure to get your parents’ permission for these fun ideas!
MALARIA FACTS
- Malaria kills 1 person every minute, 90% of deaths are kids under 5 & pregnant women in
Africa
- $10 bed nets are the best way to prevent malaria and are installed by local health workers to ensure they’re used correctly
- Malaria is 100% treatable if caught early and can cost as little as $5
- Imagine No Malaria uses 100% of donations to fight malaria through prevention, treatment, education, and communication
- More information can be found at www.imagineflorida.org
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- Make a lemonade stand 4. Add 30-50 drops of the - Have your
- Make homemade insect essential oils to desired scent soccer/volleyball/basketb
all team ask friends and repellent and sell it to family and friends
1. Fill a small spray bottle
½ full with boiled water
2. Add witch hazel to fill almost to the top
3. Optional: Add ½ tsp of vegetable glycerin
- Ask for Imagine No
Malaria donations for your birthday instead of a gift
- Basketball shoot-a-thon- have family and friends sponsor you for every basket made! family to donate for every
“net” scored
- Give $1 for every mosquito bite you get this week
- Host a yard sale

- Make cookies or brownies and sell them to your neighbors or at camp
- Collect spare change from family and friends
and donate it to save lives!
Introduction
Script for stage leader
- Yesterday we learned that God wants us to move! (Let’s Go!). One way we’re moving is through Imagine No Malaria. We asked you to come up with idea to raise $10 for Imagine No
Malaria. What are you guys going to do to fight malaria this week and this summer?
- (Decide before hand if you’d like to collect money every day to keep up the momentum by announcing the total or at the end of the week) Bring your money tomorrow/the end of the week so we can save lives through Imagine No Malaria!
- Today we’re learning that God wants us to care! Raise your hands if you’ve gotten a fever before?
- Raise your hands if you’ve gotten the flu?
- Malaria causes people, especially kids, to have really bad symptoms like the flu. If you don’t get treatment in time children can die from malaria. 75% of people that live in sub-Saharan
Africa get malaria every year. We want to care about all of our friends that get sick every year.
Closing
Suggested Video: Imagine
Script for stage leader
(If kids made a prayer journal, amend this script so they include their prayer in the journal)
- Why does God care about people that have malaria?
- Why do you care about people with malaria?
Daily Challenge: Tonight, we want you to go home and write a prayer for people sick with malaria.

- You could pray for pregnant moms that are sick and scared that they feel better. You can pray for the hospitals to have medicine and doctors to help people. And you can pray for the families that are losing their kids today from malaria.
- Pray for people with malaria tonight and that our church, friends, and family will care enough to move and act to end malaria. Bring your written prayers in tomorrow!
Introduction
Script for stage leader
- Who prayed for people with malaria last night?
- Why do we pray for people with malaria or people we know?
- A lot of times we pray for people when they’re hurting, but we should also pray to thank God for good things! One good thing is that deaths by malaria have dropped by HALF in four years!
It’s because people like you decided to follow Jesus and heal like Him!
Closing
Script for stage leader
- The United Methodist Church is in a lot of places in Africa where malaria hits the hardest.
Because Imagine No Malaria works through the church and hospitals, many Africans learn how to fight malaria through their church. Following Jesus means we follow the example He set.
Jesus healed many who were sick, and we have the opportunity to do so through Imagine No
Malaria.
- How can we follow Jesus and serve Him by helping those with malaria?
Daily Challenge: Write down your reason why you care about malaria. You can research a fact, pray, or watch a Youtube video about malaria.
- You’ll be given a sign, tonight fill in the blanks and bring it back tomorrow! If your parents have a facebook, have them take a picture of you and share it with their friends.
If students are collecting an offering on the last day, have them bring their money in tomorrow

Introduction
Script for stage leader
- What did some people write down on their sign? Why does following Jesus lead you to want to end malaria?
- Today we’re learning about how Jesus calls us to share our faith with others.
- How can talking about Imagine No Malaria with our friends share our faith with friends?
Closing
Suggested Video: Bring Change (click for link)
Script for stage leader
- We’ve learned a lot about how to grow closer to God this week. One of the ways we can do that is through Imagine No Malaria.
- What is something you know about malaria?
- What are ways to raise money for Imagine No Malaria? What can YOU do to save lives?
- How can we pray for those that have malaria?
- We can always make a difference. We care about malaria so those that suffer aren’t alone.
Please join me in praying

Lord, thank you for giving us the chance to learn how to impact our world for You. You are a healer who cares about your children, and we will pray, raise awareness, and give our money to stop malaria. If one person is suffering from this preventable disease, then we also suffer. Give us your empathy so we can be a voice for those that suffer in silence from malaria. We praise You that the
United Methodist Church has raised $67 million to fight this disease! Keep us interested and involved, thinking of others rather than ourselves. In Your name,
Amen.
Use these videos to explain and excite about Imagine No Malaria!
(To open videos, right-click on the word “here” below and select “Open Hyperlink)
“A Killer In the Dark” (52:00) / Watch here
Order for free: http://shop.umc.org/product/productinfo/imagine-no-malaria-faith-in-action-a-video-collection/1203?cid=257
A Killer in the Dark is the UMC-produced documentary which shares the story of malaria and how Imagine No Malaria is saving lives.
Recommended for: Wednesday night program, Small Group Study, Youth Group, Special
Awareness night, Missions Meeting
“Bishop Carter’s Welcome to Imagine No Malaria” (1:51) / Watch here
Bishop Carter introduces Imagine No Malaria and invited your church to participate
Recommended for: Sunday Worship, Wednesday night program, small group
“Imagine” (2:16) / Watch here
An inspiring video which shows the urgency and hope of Imagine No Malaria
Recommended for: Sunday Worship, Wednesday night program, Community Outreach,
Small Groups, Youth Group, Church Meetings
“Malaria By The Numbers” (0:53) / Watch here
This short video shows the facts about malaria in an easy-to-absorb format
Recommended for: Sunday Worship, Wednesday night program, Community Outreach, Small groups, Youth group, Social Media and Website Promotion
“Ministry Overview” (1:50) / Watch here
This video shows a short version of what Imagine No Malaria does to prevent and treat malaria
Recommended for: Sunday Worship, Wednesday night program, Small Groups, Youth Group
“Ted Talk: 3 Reasons We Still Have Malaria” (15:18) / Watch here

This informative TED talk has informed people all over our denomination
Recommended for: Small Groups, Youth Group, Church Staff
“The Winged Scourge” (9:42) / Watch here
This Disney short from 1943 is extremely eye-opening as it looks out how to prevent malaria in the United States before we were able to eradicate it in 1950.
Recommended for: Adult Small Groups, Youth Group
“Leo and Kya” (3:27) / Watch here
This short video is a perfect way to introduce kids to malaria and why it’s important to stop
Recommended for: Children’s Ministries, VBS
Thank you so much for saving lives from malaria at your 2015
VBS! Here is the easiest way to turn in your monetary donations:
If anyone writes a check, please have them write it out to your church with “Imagine No Malaria” in the memo line. Please contact Laurel at
LaurelOConnor@unyumc.org with any questions.
As the church sends in the check, please make it out to “Upper New
York Annual Conference” with the memo “Imagine No Malaria” and mail it to:
Upper New York Annual Conference
c/o Imagine No Malaria
324 University Ave., 3 rd Floor
Syracuse, NY 13210
If you got permission from parents, we’d love to see pictures of your
Imagine No Malaria efforts! Please email
LaurelOConnor@unyumc.org