From the earliest days of planning this campaign, we have been aware of the need to find a design that will express the message of our main theme (John 14:6). This basic design will appear on each piece of our advertising literature – church banners, billboards, shoplites, buses, gospel tracts, website, etc – and will be instantly recognisable wherever it is used.
Due to the fact that an Information Leaflet is due to be printed this week and released at our next Presbytery meeting (Friday, 1 May 2009), our basic design must be finalised this weekend. Two graphics teams are hard at work on this project ... as I write!
The first official donation has been received to commence our fund for 'Doing Something More For God.' An extremely generous donation of £1000 has been made by a young couple in order to get the fund started. We are delighted to receive this and are quite overwhelmed by their desire to see this project succeed to the glory of God.
A necessary question is ... “How can we finance this project?” The following figures are current estimates (in some cases figures have been firmed up): - Leaflets/DVDs telling our people of campaign (10,000) ............ £1000 - Banners for Churches (£150 x 70) ............................................... £10,500 - Website (procure domain and cost of design) ............................. £1000ADVERTISING PACKAGE Including Billboards, Shoplites and Bus Ads .................................. £28,377PROVINCEWIDE TRACT DISTRIBUTION Royal Mail ‘Door-to-Door’ Delivery (to all 741,000 homes) ........... £28,9002 x Gospel Tracts (1,000,000 copies) .............................................. £27,500TOTAL .............................................................................................. £97,277Some additional costs will have to be factored in: - Hire of Regional Venues (School Assembly Halls) - Cost of producing a Free DVD
Therefore OUR TARGET OF ........................................................... £100,000
HOW will we raise this amount of money?• We remind ourselves that, within the Free Presbyterian Church, money raised through our churches for the 'Tsunami Relief Fund' quickly topped £100,000.• Also, the British Humanist Association in Great Britain managed to attract a sum of £140,000 for their 'Atheist Bus Campaign.' Surely we can equal, if not exceed, that?!
• Therefore our appeal is being made to every member and each congregation - this target figure of £100,000 is an investment for the future! • 10,000 Free Presbyterians X £10 each = OUR TARGET.
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WHERE MAY I CONTRIBUTE?
* For people in the United Kingdom, please take note of special offerings for this Fund that will be announced in your local Free Presbyterian Church, and look out for special envelopes that are being printed and will be distributed through your local fellowship.
* For our overseas friends (and several of them have already asked me how they can make a donation to this campaign). I discussed this matter with the Treasurer of our Ulster Presbytery. His thought is that a donation using Paypal is probably the easiest and most cost effective method for overseas donations. This method can be used even if you do not have a personal Paypal account. Paypal allows you to "use your credit card or bank account (where available)."
This payment option can be accessed by clicking the "Donate" button towards the top right hand corner of the following page on Sermon Audio:
http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?sermonid=411091814132
All such donations will be officially acknowledged.
From the earliest days of planning this campaign, we have been aware of the need to find a design that will express the message of our main theme (John 14:6). This basic design will appear on each piece of our advertising literature – church banners, billboards, shoplites, buses, gospel tracts, website, etc – and will be instantly recognisable wherever it is used.
