T-shirts are often used to promote charities, bands and, schools. But did you know that T-shirts are now being used across the UK to promote church attendance? On September 28, 2008 churches across the UK and, indeed, across the world are having Back to Church Sunday. On Back to Church Sunday people are being encouraged to bring a friend with them to church.
According to Inspire magazine, “Thirty eight Church of England dioceses from Cornwall to Newcastle will join with Churches Together in Scotland, the Church in Wales, Baptist, Methodist and United Reformed churches nationwide, Elim Pentecostal churches and Anglican churches in New Zealand and Canada” to participate in this event.
Churches will begin getting ready for this event over the summer. Many will buy Back to Church packs which include invitations, posters, prayer cards, party goods and T-shirts for the welcome team.
Promotional T-shirts are so effective at getting their message across. That is why they are popular for school groups, many charities and many other organizations. Church youth groups and college clubs often create their own t-shirts to advertise their organization or to promote one of their activities or fundraisers. So, it makes sense that a more widespread organization such as Back to Church Sunday would make use of T-shirts.
Back to Church Sunday is getting a double use out of their welcome team T-shirts. Primarily they will be used as uniforms that identify members of the welcome team to church visitors. It allows visitors to know who is running the event and to whom they should address questions. Also, when the welcome team wears the T-shirts after the event, they will continue promoting Church attendance long after the event has ended.
So, just as T-shirts can be useful in promoting charities, bands and schools they can also be useful in promoting Church attendance on 28 September and beyond.
(c) Steve Woods, www.sxc.hu
Very helpful staff.
After a mixture of emails and phone calls to clarify the details of the t shirts, Carl worked his socks of to turn the order around in double quick time and meet a very tight deadline - Well done to all involved the shirts went down a storm at the school leaving party and everyone was very happy with the quality. Fantastic job
sweatshirts looked great and the children were delighted with them! I'd echo the comment from another purchaser though that the sizing is quite small so I'm glad we went for the larger sizes.