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Member’s Downloads of Apple Pie with options Recipe Cards

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Mother's Day is a great time to invite moms to come to ministry events that occur outside Sunday. The recipe cards here are a fun way to do that. Everyone loves recipe cards--you can give them out on Mother's Day and on the back invite moms back to other ministry opportunities. The recipe cards here have both a clip art version and a version with a photo illustration.

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CLICK HERE to download a ZIP file that contains:

* Both Mother's Day Pie recipes, 2 versions
* MS Publisher Original files (you must have MS Publisher to use this file)

* PDF Files
*Resizable jpg files
**I also included the files for the BOOKMARK for Mother's Day in this zip file

After you download the file, SAVE it to your computer, then click on it to "unzip" it and the files are ready for you to use.

 

Mother’s Day church bulletin inserts or jpgs for evangelism follow-up

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When unchurched family members come to your church you don't want them to leave without something that directs them to further research of the gospel and what it means to have a relationship with Jesus.

This bulletin insert was created to give them something to take home and using the websites on it, it gives people an opportunity to explore on their own.

PLEASE NOTE: this free sample is NOT a PDF like the other free samples publications  in this series of communications for Mother's Day. It is a jpg file--a graphic file that you can use as is or resize to fit into another publication. Click on the image to download it, when it opens in the other window you can either save it or copy and paste it into a publication like MS Publisher.

If you would like to see  an example of how a church communicator used an image like this in her church bulletin for Easter, click here.

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This Mothers day bulletin insert Version #2is the second bulletin insert.

The Download section has both images, plus the MS Publisher files and PDFs of both that are ready to print and use. It has:

  • All four Mother's Day Bulletin inserts (there are actually two versions of each one)
  • MS Publisher Original files (you must have MS Publisher to use this file)
  • PDF Files
  • Resizable jpg files

CLICK HERE to download the  ZIP file all the materials above

After you download the file, SAVE it to your computer, then click on it to "unzip" it and the files are ready for you to use.

Mother’s Day Invitations to church, a free sample and link to member downloads

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Mothers Day Invitation #1 IMAGE Mother's Day is a wonderful time not only to celebrate mom's but to reach out to unchurched family members. But you can't do that if they aren't there.

This is a sample PDF invitation for you to download and use as an invitation.

Click on the image to download the PDF or click here.

In the section following, you will find ZIP File download that not only has this invitation, but also has the following two invitations.The images below do not link to download PDFs.

In addition to all three invitations, you also get the original MS Publisher files, plus a jpg file of each invitation.

In addition to all three invitations, members also get the original MS Publisher files, plus a jpg file of each invitation.

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CLICK HERE to download a ZIP file that contains:

  • All three Mother's Day Invitations
  • MS Publisher Original files (you must have MS Publisher to use this file)
  • PDF Files
  • Resizable jpg files

After you download the file, SAVE it to your computer, then click on it to "unzip" it and the files are ready for you to use.

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The often-missed evangelism and ministry opportunities of Mother’s Day

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Mother's Day Sunday is the third highest day for attendance in churches in North America, running slightly behind Christmas and Easter. Though most churches know this and work hard to make it a special Sunday, many miss significant evangelism and spiritual growth opportunities for that day-because of the day's exclusive focus on mothers.

Please don't misunderstand me. I'm not saying churches shouldn't honor mothers on Mother's Day. They should; it is an important time to praise mothers and to thank God for them. What I'm recommending is that churches not make mothers their exclusive focus, but that they take advantage of the additional ministry opportunities made possible that day because of mothers. These are primarily in two areas and they are:

  • The unchurched child and/or spouse outreach opportunity
  • The opportunity to challenge for spiritual parenting

Let's look at these two ministry opportunities in more detail:

The unchurched child and/or spouse outreach opportunity

The reason that churches are so full on Mother's Day is not because it is the only time of year mothers come to church. Most of the mothers at the church are regular attendees. The reason so many people come to church on Mother's day is the unchurched people in the lives of many mothers rarely, if ever, come to church, but they will come on this day to make mom happy. [Read more...]

One Mother’s Prayer, the text and download link

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One Mother's Prayer
This piece is a perfect handout for Mother's Day or anytime you want to encourage people to pray for children.

This short piece, One Mother's Prayer, is a true story that is both an encouragement to pray for children and an assurance of the power of prayer to change a destiny.

It has been published more times than anything else I've written. It was first published in Today's Christian Woman magazine. Then in their Best of Ten Years of writings, it has been reprinted and republished all over the world, and it continues to bring tears to the eyes of any group I read it to. You are free to use it any way you want and share it however you want.

This sample PDF if free to download.You can click here or on the image to download it.

Members will get the all of the additional PDF formats: 2 more 8 1/2 by 11 plus 4 other versions on half sheet size plus the jpgs of the larger files and an MS Word text file if you want to create your own publication. The text file and the link to all the other downloads is after the images below.

This is a great resource not only for Mother's Day, but any time of the year for Mom's groups and prayer groups. [Read more...]