Using Devotionals
In Your Church or Group
How can I use a devotional magazine in my church or small group? Devotional magazines are great resources to help those who want to grow in their relationship with God. Here are some great ideas on how to use devotional magazines in your church:
- Members going deeper spirituallyFor some, choosing daily devotional material is a challenging task. Providing your members with subscriptions to a relevant, multi-topic magazine is a wonderful way to tell them that growth is important to the Christian experience.
- Consider taking your congregation through the Bible in one year with the Daily Walk magazine. This can be a simple and encouraging way for your members to read the Bible.
- Give a gift subscription to a church family that is experiencing tough times and who are in need of a source of encouragement.
- Have each member subscribe to a devotional magazine. This is one of the best ways you can help encourage a personal quiet time in their lives, adding strength to their walk with God.
- Small groups' pathway to growthBy using a devotional magazine as part of the curriculum each group member can read and study the devotionals each week, coming together for discussion of the topics with one another. Each magazine is designed for daily devotions that can be integrated into group discussions.
- YouthWalk offers a free online Leader's Guide to help youth leaders guide students through connecting real life to the very real God.
- Consider using the devotional magazine Tapestry for your women's ministry. Tapestry offers guidance, encouragement, and a realistic presentation of what it means to be a Christian woman in today's complex world. This devotional magazine would be a great tool to help women mentor women through personal study time.
- Caring for the hurting and lostGiving a devotional magazine to those are seeking God is a great way to provide a resource to read at home that is relevant and easy to understand. Consider using a devotional magazine as an outreach tool for your community and internationally.
- Choose to give away a copy of Closer Walk or Daily Walk to those in your community who live within a ten miles radius of your church. These are wonderful devotional magazines for those who are searching to know God.
- Buy a one-time bulk order for those affected by local or overseas disasters. Your members can help bring a source of encouragement those who are in need of ongoing relief effort.
- Appreciating your donorsCultivating relationships with donors is simplified when you give them a copy of a devotional magazine. Showing an interest in their spiritual development will help build trust in, and loyalty to, your ministry.
- Give a free one year gift subscription to your donors. Say "Thank you" with the indeed magazine, which will have a lasting impression.
- Consider a personalized devotional magazine for your donors. This is a great way to keep in constant communication with your donors about your ministry along with giving them a great devotional resource.
- Giving to new or potential church membersAs a church spreading the good news of Jesus Christ, you want to touch non-members in a life-altering way. Perhaps you have seekers in and out of your doors every week, or perhaps many local church neighbors attend your parenting classes and fall festivals. Give them something to take with them besides memories. Put a devotional in their hand that speaks to them about God's love.
- Use a devotional magazine as a gift for those who attend your church retreats or special events. Consider giving YouthWalk for students who attend your summer camp or youth retreats.
- As part of your welcoming ministry to those who visit your church give them a copy of indeed as a welcome gift. A wonderful resource to help someone who is seeking and wanting deeper intimacy with God.
- Communicating by the written wordCalendars, announcements, special events, words of direction and vision—there are many things that you need to communicate with your constituency. Rather than send out multiple mailings, why not combine everything into one monthly piece that contains the added benefit of daily devotions?
- Give each member a personalized devotional magazine. You can write a letter of encouragement, announce special events, share ministry goals and progress, or highlight a valued member of your staff.
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