Church Letter Writing Success Mini Course - Tip 5 of 13

Church Letter Writing Success Mini Course - Tip 5 of 13
It is recommended you use all 13 Tips in your Ezine

Our fifth lesson in "13 Tips For Church Letter Writing
Success" will build off the letter "C" in our Church Letters
acrostic.

So far, we have looked at the following:
C - Be Clear
H - Be Hopeful
U - Be Understanding
R - Be Responsive

Today, we will take a look at:

C - Be Consistent
People have an amazing ability to catch on to "favoritism",
and will certainly notice if certain people receive letters
or encouraging e-mails and others do not. 

As Church leaders, it is our calling to reflect the attitude
of Christ in dealing with people, and that includes going out
our way to minister to the one who may be "down and out",
as well as the one who seemingly has it "all" together.

Work on the development of a new habit of sending a card or
letter "just because" to someone in the congregation, or
to thank them for their service of ministry.  Consistently
send out birthday and anniversary congratulations as you
collect this valuable information through church surveys.

Develop a database for Church Membership to assist in this
endeavor.  If you are in search of a cost effective web-based
system, please feel free to contact us for the name of the
company we recommend.  It is far less expensive than most
of what is available for web-based systems.

Use reminders and other tools to help you remember!  Even a
pen and paper is better than nothing...

Consistency is something where you don't notice the results
overnight, yet with continually doing the right things, your
people will see that you really DO care enough to consistenly
reach out to them with concern and care, congratulations and
compassion!

  Below is your fifth complimentary letter which you may
modify and use in your own church communications.

(Birthday Church Letter for Christian)

I wanted to take just a moment to send you a note to wish you
a Happy Birthday, and to let you know how valuable you are in
God's sight.

The Bible tells us in Psalm 139:13 "For you created my inmost
being; you knit me together in my mother's womb."  Scriptures
such as this give us a wonderful assurance that absolutely
NONE Of us are here on planet Earth by accident, but we are
all of "divine design".

The way to true happiness and peace is to determine the plan
God has for our life and then do our best to walk in His
perfect will.  He has promised us that He will never leave us
or forsake us, so we have great assurance that IF (that big,
little word) we will continue to walk with Him, the way will
be clear.

Birthdays are a reminder of our beginning, and as we grow
older, we find that they are also a reminder of the fact that
one day there will be an "end".  While that may not sound
encouraging, we also know that for the Christian the "end" is
only the "beginning" as eternity with Christ is our ultimate
goal.

Here's a nice short story by Elsie Ratowski I thought you'd
enjoy:    When we visit my parents' grave site, my boys always
help water the flowers. One day they argued over who should
get the water. Knowing my youngest was born one month after
my father died, my elder son said, "You can't do it. You didn't
 even know Grandpa." To that my little one replied, "Oh yes I
did. I was coming down when he was going up."

   -- Elsie Ratowski, Prudenville, MI.  Today's Christian
Woman, "Heart to Heart."

I want to encourage you to redeem the time God has given to
you, and to live every day with God's will in mind.

Happy Birthday!

Pastor John Doe