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Tool #1 … The invite card
Get Your Invite On!
Church at the Bay it’s time to get our Christmas invite on. This past Sunday we gave out 1000 CD invites as well as a bunch of invite cards. What can I say? We have 4 days until Sunday and 5 days until Christmas Eve! Here is the schedule:
Sunday, December 23rd
9:30 and 11:00am
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Monday, Christmas Eve, December 24th
5:00pm- Family Service
(It’s all going to happen- a special children’s message,
birthday party for Jesus for children and a special service
designed to prepare your heart and the hearts of the friends
you bring for Christmas… Also cookies and Cider for all!))
Please use this video to invite your friends …
Do You Recommend a Christmas Devotional Plan? Yes!
Every year I get asked this question: “What do you recommend for a family devotional to prepare us for Christmas. So, I thought I would refer you to a tool I use every day- YouVersion! They have individual and family devotions for the season! Take a look below- click a link- find a devotional that works for you and yours.
- Carols: A Christmas Devotional- this one actually lines up with our current series. God is with us – in answered promises, realized dreams, and refreshed hope. How could we help but sing. During this Christmas season, explore the songs that were born from our joy that Christ has entered the world and rediscover their relevance in your life today in this 25-day reading plan.
- Countdown to Christmas is an Advent calendar that teaches your whole family the significance of Christmas through fun activities. From Thriving Family. 29 days
- Rediscovering the Christmas Season features reflection questions and action steps that help you focus on Christ every day between December 1 and Christmas. From LifeChurch.tv. 25 days
- The Christmas Story starts with Old Testament prophecies about the coming Savior, then turns to the Gospel accounts of his glorious arrival. From YouVersion. 5 days
- Joy to Your World explores the significance of the first Christmas and how it intersects with each of our lives today. From Carol McLeod. 25 days
- She Reads Truth: Advent is a unique plan for women who are committed to daily reading and being changed by God’s Word this Christmas season. From She Reads Truth. 28 days
Find even more Christmas plans on YouVersion!
It’s On Like Donkey Kong!
This Sunday I unpacked our plan for reaching as many people as possible on Christmas Eve. We gave you two different invite tools. Let me talk about them one at a time.
Tool #1 … The invite card
We gave you five this week and we will give you five more each week until Christmas Eve. Use these to invite a friend, someone pumping gas beside you, your check-out person at the mall, your mailman, your boss and on and on. I told you that our pastors have challenged each other to make at least one personal invite each day. We actually have a board in the office that makes us accountable to each other. If you know your pastors, you know we want to win- so this inviting is going over the top- one guy actually invited 7 on the first day! We are having some fun and here is the best part-our invitations will lead to lives being changed as people come and discover God’s love! Help us make a difference.
Tool #2 … Post-it Note
This is a pretty cool idea, actually one of my favorites. This note has a QR code and the website url. Both lead to a video invite to Church at the Bay for Christmas Eve! Now let’s have some fun. We want you to post these in unusual places and snap a picture. You see my strategic post-it at the top of this post. Once you have taken your picture, upload the picture to our Facebook Page (click here) and get your friends to “like” it. On Saturday Night at 6pm each week we will post the name of the winner- the person with the most “likes” for their picture posted on Church at the Bay’s Facebook Wall. So what does the winner get?
1. The warm feeling of knowing you had the coolest invite out there…
2. A $25 Gift Certificate to Chili’s
3. The envy of everyone else who posted a picture of their invite.
At the end of the day- what really matters is people discovering the love of God and a relationship with Him through Jesus Christ. How cool would it be if the gift you were able to give someone this Christmas was a relationship with Jesus Christ.
Remember – each week we will give you 5 invite cards and some post-it notes and a winner will be announced every Saturday night on Facebook!
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