Honoring members in this way is a good idea. But how could you step the value up from merely good to great, maximizing the assimilation value and encouraging true Christian fellowship?

 Here are four ideas:

1.  Get a group of friendly and established members to introduce people to one another. 
2. Provide name tags. Just because you know everyone doesn’t mean long-term members know newcomers or vice versa.  
3. Put sheets of ice breaker questions at each table. Include silly or serious questions. Ask people to name their favorite _______ (fill in the blank). Have everyone describe their best Easter/graduation/Mother’s Day of all time. Open ended questions like these can get everyone sharing in a way that feels safe and fun.  
4. Provide pencils and note cards and encourage everyone sitting at each table to exchange  prayer requests for the upcoming week. If they share phone numbers or E-mail addresses so they can stay in touch. Encourage them to contact each other at least once before next Sunday.

 Do you want to help worshipers break the every Sunday “hit and run” habit? Proactively leverage spring events to deepen relationships!

Graduation Stainless Steel Travel Mug

While we have personally gone that route, we also want to give graduates something that will point them to the strength behind their accomplishment – Jesus Christ. We’d like gifts that encourage them in their faith and also leave them with a passage (or more) from the Bible. Besides, or along with, a gift card we like to give a graduation gift they can use and that might even bless their Christian faith in the future.

That’s one of the things we love about all of CTA’s gifts – including their graduation gifts. We can go down that checklist above and find Christ-centered, faith-strengthening, Scripture-based gifts for graduates that can even bless their journey into the future with their Savior.

It’s going to be a doubly busy month, but a doubly exciting time to celebrate our children’s accomplishments and the Lord who made them all possible! I have to run … time to address graduation invitations!

By the way, congratulations and God’s blessings to all the grads out there!