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Inviting Events, Outreach Event Ideas

Stinko De Mayo

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Celebrate Cinco De Mayo in the typical fashion. Have a fiesta themed night complete with build-your-own nachos. Play latino music. Teach everyone how to salsa, if your denomination allows for it. Then the coup de gras. Play games with pungent things from the Latino food store. One that we played was where you buy 6 things and put each...
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Outreach Event Ideas, Serving Events

Trick or Treat Blessing

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Each year, we begin by asking our church members to donate bags of individually wrapped candies around the beginning of October. At a meeting before Halloween, we divide the candy into goodie bags and print a Scripture passage on them. Then on Halloween night, we meet at the church in our costumes (nothing too scary) and proceed to a...
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Outreach Event Ideas, Sharing Events

How Do I Plan For a Weekend Retreat?

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Here's a ready-made WINTER RETREAT ... to go!WINTER RETREATThis snow retreat has a three fold purpose: Have a great time so students want to be involved in the group more.  Staff build relationships with students, earning their trust and exemplifying Christ-like faith by their actions.  Present what a relationship with Christ is all about.As many of you...
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The Hook Up

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This is an outreach event that is a ton of fun. Here's what you do.Advertise this event as "The Hook Up". Do this by printing up flyers with the date, location, and other important information with a picture of a fish hook. (You might also want to print Matthew 4:19 on it somewhere.) Now give every student in your...
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Backwards Halloween

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This is a great idea to use with your ministry group, if you want to provide a wonderful way for them to meet and bless their community.Instruct all of your youth to bring a bag of candy to the night you normally meet on (at least two to three weeks BEFORE Halloween). When you have collected enough candy, have...
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Inviting Events, Outreach Event Ideas

Teacher Appreciation Worship Service

This worship service is not intended to ÒworshipÓ teachers by any means; itÕs only meant to celebrate them and their call by God to teach others. Plus, if you want it to, it can also provide a great means for helping furnish teachersÕ classrooms with much-needed school supplies. HereÕs how you do it. Begin by sending out a letter...
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Inviting Events, Outreach Event Ideas

Giveaway Month

This outreach event idea is great for inviting more of your communityÕs youth to attend your ministry. (The first time we did this, our youth group size basically tripled from the Òmonth beforeÓ to the Òmonth after.Ó) The premise is simple: instead of doing one time giveaways to invite youth to come out to your event, why not stretch...
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