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Before and After The Bible Visit

Getting ready to make the most of a Bible Visit to your church you will need to give ample time to four important things: PRAYER, PROMOTION, PREPARATION and PRACTICE. Here are a few suggestions that may help you with these.

 

Before

1. Find persons and groups in your congregation willing to pray daily for the Bible Visit, weeks before and afterwards.
2. Advertise the Bible Visit by:
   • newsletter articles
   • bulletin announcements
   • posters in prominent places
   • oral announcements
   • other
3. Emphasize the importance of the Bible and our biblical heritage during worship several Sundays before the Bible Visit, possibly including a series of sermons on these themes.
4. Use skits on Sunday morning. (Look on this web site under "Youth Page" and "Drama/Music".)
5. Sing hymns Brethren sang long ago, possibly learning the colonial hymn on this web site under "Drama/Music".
6. Display pictures of Bible stories or events drawn by children in your church.
7. Have children and youth memorize Scripture and share that on a Sunday morning.
8. Encourage people to look at the web site, www.biblevisit.com. 
9. Test the Bible Visit DVD on the equipment you will use for your program as soon as you get it. Although the DVD was professionally reproduced, not all DVDs work on all equipment. Do not put this off. If you do not have a projector that will play this DVD, another church may have one you can borrow or rent. For small groups, a television can be used.
10. Assign the introduction, prayers, and transition statements from the Program Guide and have all readers practice, preferably with those running the equipment.
11. Have well in mind the challenge that will be offered at the end of the program. Pray that God will give hungry hearts to all who will see the program.

After

Below are ways that those who accept the challenge to increase their use of the Bible can be helped. Forming new habits is often hard, and encouragement is needed. Some of these ideas can also benefit others who have a desire to make the Bible more important in their lives.

1. Call those who attended the Bible Visit program and ask for their ideas on how the church can help them continue to grow in their "appreciation, study and application" of the Bible.
2. Begin one or more small Bible study groups.
3. Include personal testimonies during Sunday worship by those who would like to share how the Bible has become more important for them.
4. Preach a series of sermons encouraging Bible study.
5. Place an appropriate quote about the Bible in the bulletin weekly for at least the following three months.
6. Create a Biblical mission statement for your church.
7. Give the Bible more prominence in your worship. Ideas are on the web site under "Worship".
8. Offer persons in the congregation the opportunity to submit anonymous written testimonies about their encounters with the Bible which are read on Sunday.
9. Display drawings of Bible stories and events by children in your congregation.
10. Have persons continue to pray for all those who attended the Bible Visit program.
11. Send out blank "report cards" monthly or at the end of three months and let folks grade themselves against the challenge sheet they filled in and kept after the Bible Visit. (This is for private use only.)