Home For Christmas Cards

Note: This will be in this Sunday's bulletin, but I wanted to post it here as well.

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Home for Christmas Initiative: Together, We Can Extend a Warm Welcome

Help us invite people to “come home for Christmas” here at Grace on December 24.

Research shows that more people visit a church for the first time on Christmas Eve than at any other time of the year. That makes Christmas Eve one our best opportunities to help connect people with Christ and the grace he bestows.

During the worship services this Sunday, December 11th, you are invited to provide us with names and addresses of at least three households that do not regularly attend any church. We will mail these families personal invitations to the Christmas Eve services here at Grace. Please note: we will not use your name in any way in the invitations we send.

However, if you feel comfortable doing so, you may hand deliver or mail our beautiful Home for Christmas postcards located in the glassway. This second contact of a personally signed card often accomplishes what the less personal invitation from the church could not. Research shows that 85 percent of people who attend church visited the first time because someone they knew invited them

Whether or not you choose to send personal invitations, please come prepared to give us some names and addresses to go on the church’s invitation list. They can be neighbors, friends at work or school, relatives, people with whom you socialize, people you know in school or community organizations and clubs, customers and clients. (Do not include names of our own inactive members; we already have those.)

Please include the people you are submitting to our invitation list in your daily prayers. Ask God to use our invitation as an effective outreach to your friends. By working together we can get the word out to the largest possible number of people that “there is room at the inn” this Christmas Eve.