Christmas in Five Letters - EVENT GUIDE

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TIME FRAME There is no right or wrong date for hosting this event. Before you finalize the date for this event, you may want to check your: CHURCH CALENDAR to make sure you won't be competing with something youth or men's ministries are doing on the same day LOCAL SCHOOL CALENDAR to make sure you don't schedule your event during the peak of spring break when most of the families will be traveling COMMUNITY EVENTS CALENDAR to make sure you are not competing with the popular Music and Arts Festival in your area or something like that. This event is completely self-guided and will take about an hour to an hour and a half to complete. We suggest offering a two-hour window for the event to be open and allowing families to come and go as they please. Interactive Stations should each take about 10 minutes to complete. Creative Stations should each take about 30 to 45 minutes to complete. Some families may want to go through the J-E-S-U-S stations together but split for Creative Stations. For example, dad may take the oldest son to go build a wooden manger, while mom may take the rest of the kids to a rock painting station. Faith-at-Home part will happen when families leave. || 26 ||
WHAT IF... If you’ve never hosted a self-paced, self-guided, “come and go as you please” event, you might be wondering: WHAT IF EVERYONE SHOWS UP AT ONCE AND WE’LL HAVE A LONG LINE OF PEOPLE WAITING TO GET ACCESS TO THE VERY FIRST STATION?? It’s a valid concern yet the “bottleneck” problem can easily be prevented. Check out these practical tips: Give the first two stations the largest rooms you have available to you and create several activity centers within those rooms so that several families can have their own unique experience at the same time. This would help you avoid a bottleneck effect right from the start. Keep in mind that families DON’T HAVE to go through all the stations in any particular order. For example, you could direct some families to start with the rock painting station, while others could be directed to begin at the cookie decorating station. Follow a pattern where you do not overload any particular station. Guess what?! Self-guided means that families can really start their journey at ANY station! So, if someone wants to begin at the letter E station, it’s totally OK. They will enjoy the event just as much. It’s not about the order of the stations, but the depth of sharing and fun families experience at each station. || 27 ||
Page 2 and 3: CONTENTS 01 Introduction 02 03 05 E
Page 4 and 5: EVENT OVERVIEW CHRISTMAS IN FIVE LE
Page 6 and 7: 1 week out Continue social media pu
Page 8 and 9: Each station represents a different
Page 10 and 11: STATION J Hundreds of years before
Page 12 and 13: STATION E Imagine the shock felt by
Page 14 and 15: Houston, we have a surprise! You've
Page 16 and 17: You've been chosen to cook alongsid
Page 18 and 19: STATION S It's interesting that Jes
Page 20 and 21: STATION U The Magi—whether there
Page 22 and 23: CREATIVE STATION #1 Set up several
Page 24: CREATIVE STATION #3 Set up several
Page 27 and 28: FAMILY GUIDE Each family will recei
Page 29 and 30: PUBLICITY PLAN Here’s content to
Page 31 and 32: SOCIAL MEDIA ANNOUNCEMENTS + STRATE
Page 33: BULLETIN ANNOUNCEMENTS Get ready to
Page 37 and 38: BITS & PIECES GRAPHICS Your Event K

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