E-Flash From Dan - Easter Invitation

Dear E-Flash Friends;

Easter is coming!  And we will be joyfully celebrating the good news and the wonderful truth that Jesus Christ is risen from the dead! 

Soon our large mailing will be going out to invite people in our community to our 3 Easter services, Sat. 4/23/11 at 5pm and Sun. 4/24/11 at 9 or 11am.  To all those who helped us prepare the Easter mailing again this year, thank you!!!  The job is literally way too large (45,000 pieces, gulp!) for us to do without the help of many.  We truly appreciate your assistance.  And, now, God likes you just a teeny little bit more.

(That last line is theologically incorrect, and I’m just kidding.  But I am glad to those who helped.)

This year we would also like to ask you to consider doing something new.  Aw, come on, it’s fun to try something new, isn’t it?  Would you, possibly, be willing to send a link to our “Video Easter Invitation” to people on your e-mail list who live in the Chicago area?

Yes, we actually have a “video” invitation, this year.  (This is the kind of dangerous thing that happens when I get a camcorder.)

If you have some folks in the Chicago area on your e-mail list and you would be willing to send the video invitation, simply copy and paste the link on the line below to an e-mail message and send it out.

Here is the link: 

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1guWMYOtJiQ

                                   

 Because of the nature of relational networks and how they work, I think it’s possible that if we will all be willing to take a moment to send the link to our e-mail lists, our invitation video could easily reach hundreds of people who would not otherwise get an invitation to our services.  (What if our invitation video went “viral” on Youtube?  That would really be a riot.)

Of course, the most effective invitation is probably still the good, old fashioned, face-to-face invite of one person to another.  I hope we will all think and pray about the matter. And then as God lays people on our hearts, I hope we will respond by inviting.  The interesting reality is that people who might not go to church at any other time are liable to go to church on Easter!

Thanks for your time, hope you’re having a wonderful week!

Love and blessings,

Dan