Mailings, Braces, and T-Shirts

Today I prepared the t-shirt logo (as much as I can) before turning it over to the printers.  I usually come up with a basic design, and then let the T-Shirt Team work with the printers on a final product.  Folks love buying these shirts and wearing them to promote the Easter drama.

Because we use the Easter drama logo in a variety of ways, we have to make several variations of the original logo.  Today I created the black and white smaller logo for our newsletter, letterhead, mailouts, announcements, etc. and forwarded it to our secretaries.

This week is prep week for our big mailings. Each year people that attend our Easter drama give us their addresses in order to be informed of the next year's performance.  We mail thousands of these informational letters out.  Today I created this letter / flier so that it can be copied and folded by my secretary and ready for volunteers to label and mail out next week.

We also mail an informational letter and fliers to hundreds of local churches and pastors.  That letter was also written today.

Each year we have a printed program to hand out to everyone in attendence of the Easter drama.  It serves many purposes (I'll explain those at a later date), but one is that local businesses advertise in it.  We call them our Corporate Sponsors.  The money we raise from Corporate Sponsorship is so important to our ministry.  Since we don't charge admission (we use a free ticket system), everything we need from the upkeep for our animals to building the set to publicty is paid for by love offerings and Corporate Sponsorship.  Today I prepared the letter we mail out to every business that has been a Corporate Sponsor in the past, asking for their support again this year.  Then I also prepared a letter for people who requested information last year about being a Corporate Sponsor for the first time this year.

Saturday our Properties Committee held a church-wide work day to help prepare the campus for the visitors we'll receive because of the Easter drama.  At the same time, our two Set Construction Team leaders rebuilt some floor braces in preparation for our set construction next week.  They've developed a great method of replacing and rebuilding portions of the set each year, instead of waiting until things fall apart to be replaced.

Last week my secretary printed out the thousands of free tickets that we'll give away through our reservations system, and today the Reservations Team Leader and one of the Lead Team members cut all these.  Even though the dates and times of the performance are on the tickets, we also color-code them.

Tomorrow is another hole-up-at-home day.  My goal is to FINISH the first draft of the script!