One of the things we did for our move to Lee Hill Elementary was purchase 100 signs that we hung up in our mission field the first two weekends we moved.
The purpose of this sign drop was to create awareness of the move for people who already knew of New Season Church and knew we met at Massaponax High School. The second thing we were trying to accomplish was to raise awareness about our church amongst people who never knew we existed. I think we accomplished both!
The whole idea I stole from a church planter named Ben Arment whose blog I read. If you are not reading his blog and are a church planter you should.
Here is how the sign dropped worked:
- I purchased 100 single sided, 1 color signs and stakes. The signs cost $3 a piece and the stakes $1 a piece plus shipping. It is key to get a sign that is cheap enough but not too cheap. You have to go into it recognizing you will lose some signs either because of the weather (the winds were terrible the last couple of weeks) and because of theft.
- I made maps of well travelled intersections, subdivision exits and roads to mark where signs should go.
- I recruited some people to help with hanging the signs asking them to take about ten each and to put them out on Friday afternoon and pick them up after our worship celebration experience on Sunday for two weeks. We did this so that the county/state would not take them down and because there is nothing worse than a sign that litters the road for three months and we wanted to be good stewards- plus we wanted to get the signs back to use them again.
- I prayed over the signs before I gave them out and asked the persons hanging them to pray as they put them out that the right people who were far from God, turned out or off by church would see them and respond.
- We have retrieved the signs and will use them again before Easter, Back to School and Christmas Eve.
All in all the signs were really great and people actually did come because they saw the signs. Here is a picture of our sign.
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