If you are the kind of person, male or female who considers shopping one of your favorite recreational activities, this time of year is perfect for you to combine your love of shopping with significant ministry.You can do that by shopping for school supplies at the greatly discounted prices this time of year and using them for Backpack Ministries and saving them ahead for Christmas Shoe boxes. To encourage and inspire the people in your church to take part, Effective Church Communications has links at the end of this article to entries that have church bulletin inserts in a variety of illustration formats. Some are free PDFs that you can personalize on the back. There are more designs available in editable MS Publisher format that you can download and modify if you are an ECC Member. The first two links are for Backpack Ministry Inserts, the third one encourages people to shop for your Christmas Shoe boxes when the fall sales are on, and finally a personal article on why this ministry is so important to me.

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Back-to-School Backpack Ministry--an opportunity to bring joy to needy kids A new set of designs with templates for Effective Church Communications My personal reasons why backpack ministry is so important to me Bulletin Inserts: Shop for Your Christmas Child Boxes in August--Samaritan's Purse shopping Tips!