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* FEATURE: Discover the Best Theme for Your Big Event
* HOT BUTTON TOPIC: Prayer for an Alcoholic

Dear Sisters,

Hard to believe that the summer is flying away and that it is time for your women's ministry to finalize plans for Christmas activities and look ahead to spring retreats. In our feature article, Themes For A Big Event, Karen Porter shares with you some great ideas for those events. This article is an excerpt from her newly released book Secrets to Planning A Successful Big Event.

Also, be sure to check out our HOT BUTTON ARTICLE - Cristine Bolley's gripping story Praying For An Alcoholic. Even if alcoholism has never touched your family, you will want to save this story to share with women whose lives have been.

Rebekah Montgomery: Editor
Linda Evans Shepherd: Publisher

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READ OUR FEATURE:
Discover The Best Theme For Your Big Event
(An excerpt from Secrets to Planning a Successful Big Event by Karen Porter courtesy of Jubilant Press)

A theme is a fresh approach to a spiritual need or truth. Be creative as you put together the wording of the theme. It should be like a headline - grabbing attention yet telling what the event is about.

After you have decided on a theme and prayed about it thoroughly, find an appropriate verse that relates. Then begin thinking about decorations and how the programs will look. Design a logo or use pretty paper from stationary stores. If you have an artist in the church, ask her to paint a special picture for the event.
One church in San Antonio chose Becoming a Woman for All Seasons as the retreat theme. An artist painted a beautiful design of flowers in the four annual seasons. The group reproduced this lovely painting on programs, nametags, cards, and posters.

A good theme can last all year. One church chose "Year of the FROG (Fully Rely On God)" as the theme for the kickoff retreat and then used the slogan all year long. Other ideas are R.O.S.E. (Reaching Other Sisters for Eternity) or Year of the BIBLE.

Decorating for a theme can be inexpensive and easy. A garden theme, for example, utilizes items in home gardens, such as plants, pots, seed packets, baskets of fresh vegetables, birdhouses, stone critter statues, garden carts, wheelbarrows, bird feeders, coiled water hose (makes a darling wreath when covered in silk flowers), buckets, potted plants, garden tools, and gloves. Themes such as "Growing in Him", "Blooming Where you Are Planted", and "I am the Vine, You are the Branches" work well with garden decorations.
Hearts are another favorite decoration. Buy heart decorations at discounts prices after Valentines Day. One of my favorite retreats is a "You Deserve a Break" day at the spa. Work out a special menu of services at a day spa such as pedicure, manicure, stress massage, back and neck massage, or an eyebrow wax. Serve herbal teas and flavored coffees. Ask a speaker to discuss ways to refresh and renew body and spirit.

Click here to see Karen Porter's new book, How To Plan A Successful Big Event

Read Our HOT BUTTON Topic,
Prayer for an Alcoholic by Cristine Bolley
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For More Women's Ministry Ebooks See...
Starting a Women’s Ministry From the Ground Up by Betty Voshage,

and The Money Mission: How to Find Money For Your Women’s Ministry by Pamela Christian.

NEW! Two E-Reports in One! How to Find Your Own Agent; How To Be Your Own Agent by Janet Kobobel Grant

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