If you turn on your TV this September you will be sure to see an advertisment with a difference… its all about Jesus! During prime time TV there will be a advertising campaign going to air called  “Jesus All About Life” – backed by all the major Christian denominations and the Bible Society. This will be the church’s biggest and sharpest media campaign perhaps since Billy Graham or ever.

How will it work? There will be approximately 40 days on our televisions where professional and high quality advertisements will be screened. Different ads will be aimed at different demographics, but each will promote the person of Jesus, the one who “came to seek and to save what was lost.” (Luke 19:10) and invite people to consider his claims found in Luke’s Gospel.

A Freecall number will be attached to the advertisements, and those who respond will receive a booklet with info about what it means to know Jesus and also be given a Luke’s Gospel. They will also be given details of their nearest church that has registered with ‘Jesus All About Life’.

Are you a ‘Jesus All About Life’ church?
What plans are you making for September?

‘Jesus All About Life’ have lots of resources for churches, but what about resources personally are going to need to make the most of conversational opportunities during the run of the ads?
Are the people at your church ready to have the conversation with the person at work who knows you are Christian?

Don’t ignore the opportunities that lay ahead during this media campaign. We need to be ready to make the most of this incredible opening for the gospel.

IDEAS

Posters out the front of church…

• Get in contact with Outreach Media
• Get in contact with Jesus All About Life
• Get in contact with Back to Church Sunday
• Don’t have a budget why not print some catchy phrases on A4: Who is Jesus? Why did he die?

Events

• Why not make September the time you try getting your church known a little more in the community with some visual activity amongst the community?
• Put on a Fair Trade Markets this September? or a Spring Fair?
• Purchase lots of bottled water and stand out the front of your church handing them out for free – everyone loves a free bottle of water… attached your church postcard or advertising flyer to it with an elastic band?

Be Prepared:

• If your welcoming at church stinks… clean it up! ‘Jesus All About Life’ should act as a incentive to get this vital ministry going at your church. People who have never stepped inside church or are scared or been hurt by church in the past may enter your doors this September – are you ready for them?
• Got a 2 minute testimony? Sit down and take time to write out your testimony of how God has worked in your life… be ready and prepared to share the hope you have and why Jesus really is all about life.

PRAY…

• for the TV campaign,
• those who watch the ads,
• that God would work powerfully so many would respond,
• may the Holy Spirit convict people of their sin and grant them repentance and forgiveness.

There are many, many more ideas I am sure… Please feel free to share your ‘Jesus All About Life’ ideas… so together we may better share the good news!