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What You’ll Find Inside
This Live Like You Were Dying Packet contains all the tools you’ll need to plan, promote and implement your Live Like You Were Dying campaign. Inside are your training sessions, promotional tools, sermons, Sunday school lessons, and planning guidelines, as well as samples of curriculum and other items available for purchase. Here’s what you’ll find:
Worship Service Media
Campaign Promo Video: In the weeks leading up to your campaign, this 3-minute promo video will help build excitement about this campaign and encourage people to participate.
Video Clips to show during weekend messages: Use these clips to enhance the sermon and make certain points come alive.
Sermon PowerPoints allow the congregation to follow along with the points of the message, and see the fill-in answers and the Scripture texts.
Live Like You Were Dying graphic: Use this graphic to enhance your announcements, bulletin inserts, and videos, song lyrics any element of your worship services!
Training Media
Campaign Training DVD: This is a great way to get oriented to the campaign. Watch the segment for the Pastor first (and use the Prayer & Vision Worksheet), and then share the team segment with all your campaign leaders.
Implementing Successful Small Groups Audio Training CD: This special training session is for the person on your campaign team who is launching your small groups. Get him or her started on their important role by listening to this message.
How to Be a Great Host Audio CD Master: Get your small group Hosts on the same page by giving them a copy of these 3, six-minute audio training sessions to listen to at home.
Resource CD
Planning & Preparation Tools
Pastor's Prayer & Vision Worksheet: This worksheet is used in conjunction with the Pastor’s segment on the Campaign Training DVD.
Campaign Team Member Profiles: These guidelines explain the role of each person on the team, along with Coaching Tips providing some “best practices”.
Campaign Timeline: A handy step-by-step reference sheet that helps you track what should be happening each week leading up to the campaign and taking you right through to the ending celebration.
Worship Service Tools
Sermons: All five of the messages for the Live Like You Were Dying series are included in transcript form for you to adapt and deliver.
Sunday School Lessons: Included on the Resource CD are four lesson plans for adult Sunday school classes, so that your teachers have a complementary curriculum to teach that does not duplicate what the small group participants are learning during the week.
Weekend Programming Guides: Here’s where the services all come together. In addition to a suggested order of service, you will find music ideas, special feature descriptions, scripts for the transitions, and cues for the media team.
Announcement List: This list gives a summary of what needs to be communicated to the congregation week-by-week, along with a reference guide for which handouts to use.
“My Commitment” Card: This card outlines the commitments the congregation will be asked to make over this 30-day journey.
“My Experience” Testimony Forms: Weekly bulletin inserts provide a place for people to share how God is impacting their lives through this campaign.
“A Word of Encouragement” Cards: This card is used during Week 2 as a practical application of the message.
Small Group Tools
Host Sign-up Card: Collect information from potential small group Hosts using this bulletin insert.
Participant Sign-up Card: This card helps you match interested participants with small group Hosts.
“How to Be a Great Host” Notes: This written summary of the “How to Be a Great Host” audio training CD can be provided to each Host to reinforce the message of the audio training sessions.
Samples of Resources Available for Purchase
Live Like You Were Dying Teaching Video: Gary Smalley, relationship expert, teaches your small groups on DVD. Order one DVD per small group.
Live Like You Were Dying Companion Booklet: The daily readings and the small group study guide are combined in this companion booklet. Order one for every adult.
Live Like You Were Dying Gift Book: This small yet powerful book can be read in one sitting, but will stay with you for a long time. Read it, listen to the theme song on the included CD, and then pass it along to a friend as an invitation to the campaign. Order enough for the adults to purchase them for at least one friend each.
Invitation Postcard: Small Group Hosts use the postcards to hand out to people to invite them to their group. Order enough for every Host to have 20 postcards.
Poster: Promote the campaign with these eye-catching posters on the walls in your church and in the windows and bulletin boards of businesses and retail establishments. Also available for purchase are vinyl theme banners (sample not included).
Key Verse Tags: These popular tags help cement the key verses in your mind by keeping them close at hand. Order one set for every adult.
Bulletin Shell: Carry the theme through to the print pieces you distribute during the weekend services.
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