“Greater Things” Thursday #17 – New Business Cards

Lebanon Road’s 2011 theme is “Greater Things.” For an introduction and video for this theme, click here. Each Thursday, we are sharing an area in which we are striving to do greater things.

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Nearly every congregation and preacher has business cards. Often, someone has ordered a zillion of them at some point in the past and then they just sit there. Maybe a few are given out every so often, but the stacks in the boxes never seem to get any smaller. Usually just the preachers have a few they might use from time-to-time.

Why? There are a lot of reasons, but two seem to be most common. One is that the cards aren’t really made available. The “office staff” is considered the ones who will use them the most, so they are the only ones who even really have an opportunity to use them.

Also, though, cards are often out-dated and (dare I say it?) ugly! Not much thought goes into the design of the card, except to pack as much information as possible onto them. So, they are not pleasing to the eye.

One of our goals for 2011 at Lebanon Road is to find simple ways to get our name out in the community a little more. And, as one very simple way to  help with that, we have designed and ordered new business cards. Also, we leave a good number available in different parts of our building for our members to use (instead of just the preachers). We ordered 500, which is not a massive number. That provides us the flexibility to change the information or design fairly often at little cost. (We ordered through VistaPrint.com. If you’ve never used that site, I recommend checking them out!)

Here are the cards. They may be simple, but they are far nicer than the older ones, and they were very inexpensive.

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How can we achieve “Greater Things” with these cards? USE THEM! They are available on both of our information tables, so our members can pick them up and use them. Leave them with tips when you go out to eat. Give them to new neighbors. Take some to your place of work and leave them out for folks to see and take…..

….we can always order more!