I'm calling on you to enlighten me with some creative energy...
I'm pondering what I want to do for two special services in May. Mother's Day and Memorial Day.
Mother's Day:
Each of the last two years we've done a Breakfast Service where the men cook the food and wait on the women. We've decorated everything and made the service feel like a restaurant while serving the women breakfast. They were allowed to eat during the message and then at they were given flowers as they entered the service, etc. It was nice.
This year I'd like something a little different. I'm open for any aspect. My message has been "A Tribute to the woman" and I've taken the angle of uplifting all women/girls on this day. I'm interested to hear some new ideas about how to uplift the mother's on that day.
Memorial Day:
We live in a heavily populated military town. Norfolk Naval Base is billed as the largest naval installment in the world. A TON of our congregation is in some way connected to the various military branches. We have Coast Guard, Navy and Marines for sure. I'm pretty sure we have one or two from the Army as well. At any rate, a memorial day Sunday Service would minister to a TON of people in our community if we billed it up right and really showed these folks that we appreciate their sacrifice. This is a segment of our city that not many churches are paying attention to. Although we're about 30 minutes from the actual base, many of the people who work with the base live on our side of town.
Ideas for Memorial Day at this point are the basics... A color guard, a choir (I'd have to get one) to sing the songs of each branch, etc.
When I was at Liberty, they had a service where special forces guys interrupted the service and the lights went out, strobe lights came on and the guys came in and threw noise bombs and came down on ropes from the ceiling, down the isles, etc. I don't know if we can pull that off... We may give some people heart attacks.
So let's brainstorm... What are some good ideas? What will you do? What would you do if money wasn't an object and no one would complain?
1 comment:
This may be totally off-base from what you're thinking, but here's my 2 cents:
Be different from all the other churches in town (and probably the state for that matter). Instead of having a service that focuses on women who are mothers, seize the opportunity to reach out to women who are unable to be mothers.
As I can attest to in my life, being infertile makes Mother's Day one of the hardest days for my wife to be in a church service. I have yet to experience a said service that seeks to minister to the childless and hurting.
Just my 2 cents :)
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