HOW TO MAXIMIZE THE IMPACT OF YOUR DEVOTIONAL

Here are a few ideas on how you can make the best use of them:

OVERALL DISTRIBUTION:

The best way to ensure success with your devotionals is to assign one person to oversee distribution. The inside front and back covers are blank, so you can place your church's name and contact information in it.

DISTRIBUTION AND USES WITHIN YOUR CHURCH:

• Coordinate a staff volunteer to make sure the devotionals are placed where members can pick them up – by every doorway/entry/exit
  
• Mention in your announcements that they are available
  
• New visitor packets or in follow-up letters
  
• Get your business people to take a quantity for their employees, customers and clients.
  
• Offer them in your book store
  
• Sunday school teachers can use them to teach or illustrate in class
  
• Hand out to members to give to unsaved friends, family and co-workers
  
• Distribute them at special events in the church (plays, concerts, etc)

DISTRIBUTION AND USES OUTSIDE YOUR CHURCH:

• General outreaches from your church
  
• Food pantries
  
• Nursing home ministry
  
• Hospital visitation
  
• Hospital lobbies
  
• Intensive care unit packets
  
• Retirement home lobbies
  
• Doctors office lobbies
  
• City missions
  
• Outside supporters of your ministry (as a thank you)
  
• Prison ministry
  
• University outreaches/ministries
  
• Send to military personnel friends/family in your congregation
  
• Target an area of 200 or 300 homes. Mail the devotionals and invite the families to church with a letter
  
• Local community visitation