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Sent
Four weeks on what it means that every person in the room was sent somewhere. The last week should land on a sign-up rather than on a challenge.
Sermon series ideas · Missions and outreach
Missions and Outreach Sermon Series Ideas and Graphics
A missions series has two jobs at once: teach a theology of sending, and get people signed up for something specific before it ends.
The ideas here keep both in view, because a missions push that inspires and doesn't give anyone a next step is one you'll repeat next year.
The work in the gallery is ours. We’ve designed 56 approved pieces that match this topic for churches around the country, and you’re seeing the most recent of them.
The ideas
6 Missions and outreach series to steal
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Here and There
A series that holds local service and global partnership side by side. It answers the objection that's raised every year about needs at home.
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Serve Week
A short arc wrapped around a week of projects in your own city. The series art and the project shirt should be the same design job.
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Neighbor
Three or four weeks about proximity rather than distance. Good for a church that wants its serving numbers up before it raises the missions budget.
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Go and Tell
A series on ordinary evangelism for people who'd never call it that. It hands a congregation language they'll actually use at work.
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The Offering
A missions giving series that names the projects and the numbers plainly. A church that shows the map and the total gets further than one that's keeping it general.
Real work
Missions and outreach graphics we designed
Approved pieces from real churches. Title slides, promo sets, print and apparel, at each piece's true proportions because we don't crop work to fit a grid.
Graphics like these come with every plan. See how your Squad’s graphics team works or check what a plan costs.
Planning
What To Build and When
Work backward from the commitment date. If the sign-up closes in six weeks, the promo has to run for four of them, which means the art's due now.
Missions asks for more formats than most series: a giving graphic, a map or project card, a trip application page and a shirt. Plan them as one set.
Every other topic we’ve built is on the sermon series ideas hub.
Missions and outreach
Questions Churches Ask
How long should a missions series run?
Three or four weeks, ending on the weekend the commitment is made rather than a week after it.
Should missions graphics use photos from the field?
Yes when they're your own and the people in them gave permission. Stock imagery of a place your church hasn't been reads as false to anyone who's been there.
What makes a missions series convert?
One named action with a deadline. A general call to be on mission produces a good feeling and you won't get applications.
Want the artwork handled?
Tell us the series and the date. Your Squad builds the slides, the social set and the print, and you'll spend that week on the message instead of on the artwork.
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