Over the years here at CTA, we’ve learned to tell when a trend has started to roll. Fall Festival is one of those trends we’ve seen gathering momentum in churches for almost a decade now.

How do we know it’s gathering steam? For one thing, we watch our mail. It’s only the first week in September, but we’ve already begun to receive customer comments focused on the resources we provide and the products we offer to help customers optimize Fall Festival as an outreach event.

Just this morning, for example, we heard from Joyce McMurray–a CTA customer from Virginia. She writes:

We are a small country church with attendance of only approximately 125 each Sunday. However, we are just off a very busy highway and we have a large turnout for our Trunk or Treat. We have averaged 225-250 children each Halloween [for the past three years].

The first year I noticed many of the children really looking at the [CTA] bookmarks and candy with Scripture. Several made comments. They are not used to receiving anything other than just candy. I know you offer imprinting, but I usually add a printed sticker to the bookmarks with our church address, inviting the children to attend our Sunday school.

Your product is top quality–no cheap paper product here! Thanks for offering something special we can use  . . . to spread the Gospel!

Notes like this one encourage us here at CTA more than our customers will ever know! And we hope that by sharing these words of encouragement, we will spark interest in many churches who have never offered a Fall Festival before.

Access our free planning guide, some free resources, tips from planners just like you, and inexpensive products sure to attract children’s attention and provide a Christ-centered witness for kids and the members of their family.

And do let us know how your plans for Fall Festival are going! We’d love to hear your ideas–especially for new products that you’d like to see us offer in the future. We’re listening!