Successful Christmas Outreach Strategy
It has to be a comprehensive, team effort You cannot create any one holiday outreach communication that will be effective in involving people in your holiday activities. It doesn’t matter how great your outreach marketing piece looks, how flawless the printing, how inspired your slogan, no one piece can carry the weight of assuring a [...]
VIDEO: A GREAT way to publicize Holiday Events
Print is still one of the most powerful ways to communicate because if you do up a print piece, such as a postcard and it is placed on the refrigerator–you can’t help but see it many times! The US Postal Service reminded us of that in a little video they did, and a clip of [...]
“The refridgerator has never been hacked” and church outreach applications
The US postal service has a recent ad that starts out with the statement: “the refrigerator has never been hacked.” You can check out the video below. Though the ad is obviously designed to encourage people and businesses to use the mail, it also has some great reminders for all of us as we as [...]
Christmas Sample: a Christmas flyer that answers Jesus’s prayer
Just before Jesus went to the cross, part of his prayer was for us. It is astounding to think that just before he faced the horror of the cross, he was praying for how we would represent him. Here is part of what he said: “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also [...]
Christmas SAMPLE: A Christmas Tree that encourages giving
We can preach all we want about how we ought to share with others during the Christmas season, but many people honestly don’t know how to do that. Help your people help others This wonderful bulletin insert explains a program where church members can take an ornament from a tree and buy a gift for [...]
People will come to church for holidays, even if they won’t come any other time–a strategy to reach them successfully
note: its’s never too early to start planning for Christmas and though this article is specifically related to Christmas, the overall strategy is useful for all holidays and lots are ahead! As we were discussing promotion for the Christmas Eve service at our church, our worship pastor said, “Yeah, even I came to church on [...]
Give your Operation Christmas Child an opportunity to give and expand the joy
Anyone can give and everyone should have the opportunity to give, as the Apostle Paul reminded us: And now, brothers and sisters, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the Macedonian churches. In the midst of a very severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in [...]
The incredible potential of seasonal and special events or how to get secular, uninterested people to come to church
How can you get secular, uninterested people to come to church? The answer isn’t hard at all–it’s right in front of us–on our calendars and this e-book: Grow Your Church through Seasonal Celebrations will show you how. The ebook is free for members, or it can be purchased for $5.00 as a download for non-members. [...]
ebook: Grow Your Church through Seasonal Celebrations, special edition
In our increasingly secular, post-Christian society, it is sometimes difficult to get our unchurched friends to come to church. But no matter what their opinion of a “church service” few people can turn down a holiday event that is free, for family and singles and where everyone has a great time. Not only can these [...]
For seasonal event success—it takes the whole church to grow the church
Every part of the church: leadership, communication team, congregation, needs to be involved for holiday outreach to be successful. Jesus did not give his disciples the Great Commission and then qualify it by saying: “The command to be my witness and to reach your world is only for paid pastors and for rich churches with [...]
