Here are two easy outreach ideas you can use right now as you reach out to people in your community with the Gospel of our Savior:
Use the addresses in your guest book from the last two or three months to create a mailing list and announce plans for summer Sunday school and VBS. Send a [...]
We’ve been blogging about Mother’s Day and honoring mothers and all women in our churches. Perhaps you’re still looking for a meaningful Christian gift for Mother’s Day. CTA’s newest devotion book for women is called Be Blessed. Based on the powerful words of God’s blessing, beloved through the ages, these devotions consider Numbers 6:24–26.
Many churches [...]
Roses for Mother’s Day—it’s a lasting tradition. Here’s a new twist on that idea, based on the meaning assigned to certain colors of roses. The following devotion from Bouquet of BlessingsTM: Devotions to Delight Your Soul will get you started. You’re welcome to print it and give it to a friend or use it for [...]
Happy Easter Season!
At our church we had more visitors than usual for Easter worship. We especially noticed a lot of families with young children. What happened at your church? Did you have more visitors than usual, as well? Did you hear any thought-provoking comments from your visitors? As you look back on your preparations for [...]
In a recent CTA newsletter I wrote about getting your church ready for Easter visitors. I encouraged readers to examine their bulletin boards and announcements with new eyes. This week I took my own advice. I realized that the vagueness I noticed probably wouldn’t affect visitors so much as it would make it hard for [...]
I was a visitor on Sunday. I don’t get to visit other churches very often because our family is usually involved with some Sunday-morning event at our home church. However, this past Sunday my daughter was invited to play flute for another congregation, and I got to be the visitor! Something happened that made a [...]
At CTA we offer imprintable items whenever possible. If you’re using something like that to give to visitors at Easter, what do you want to say about your church in the imprintable area? Here are some ideas using a fictional church. Let me know if they’re helpful to you! You can enter your own text while you’re [...]
Next Wednesday is Ash Wednesday. If you’re part of a church that observes Lent or even if you’re not, you may have some discussion among the children of your congregation about “giving something up for Lent.”
People who give something up for Lent do it because Jesus gave so much for us. He gave up [...]
Telling the Easter story to kids? Want a tool that will help them remember and repeat it? Want most of all to make it real for them?
Of course, only the Holy Spirit can spark faith and make it grow in human hearts, but we pray that CTA’s My Easter Story Bag will be one new tool that [...]
