Mother's Day is the #1 non-religious holiday attendance day for most churches in the US.

1. Are you ready for Mother's Day?
Discover tangible ideas for your church
12 Thoughtful Ways To
Make a Church Service on
Mother's Day Heartwarming
and Impactful
A practical list you can use as an idea generator for introducing
some fresh ways to present and celebrate Mother's Day
by @KennyJahng

2. Did you know that the origin of Mother's Day was from the church? Yes, a woman
from a United Methodist Church started it at all and it became a national
movement. So it's definitely a church thing!
So it is quite natural for you to plan your church service the week of Mother's Day
in May so that it includes an honors the women (and children) of your community.
Sometimes it is hard to generate a list of ideas for a Mother's Day church service.
Here is a list that hopefully will help stir the creative juice so that you can
incorporate various elements into your worship service that makes sense for your
church.

3. Flowers. Buy a bunch of flowers wholesale locally and give out flowers to
every woman/mother that attends that day.
Connect the dots. Prepare a sermon that makes the parallel between mom of
the family and God of his family. A mother's love is simply an echo of God's
love for his children.
Cards from the kids. Plan a couple weeks ahead and have the children's and
student ministry draw and make some creative cards or gifts for all the women
on Mother's Day.
Mom testimonials. Ask a couple of moms to share their faith journey and
testimonials for how God provides and is the ultimate care taker of the family.
Mothers Day Photo Booth. Prepare a bright, floral, mood setting backdrop so
that people can take photos before or after church with their families.
Video highlights of Moms. Create create a video montage of the women in
your church and you can have many creative options to go along with it. For
instance you can lay a voice over narration that talks about how critical a
mothers love is. Or you can interview a couple of mothers and include some
quotes from them. Or interview kids asking what they appreciate the most
about their mom.

4. Dedicate your offering. Find a local community group that either mobilizes
mothers or serves that audience in particular. Maybe one that helps elderly
widow moms in the area. Another great one is IJM - which is an organization
dedicated to freeing women based and caught for human trafficking. Find
more details about it here: www.ijm.org. Announce that today's offering will
be used to support that community service organization.
They "NO MOMS in the kitchen" lunch after church. Make plans so that the
men of the church plan, prepare, and host a meal after church service.
Prayer and blessings upon the moms. During the service call up all the moms
to the front of the sanctuary and then bring your spiritual care or prayer
ministry members up and let them leave everybody to pray for them.
Sing-along. In the weeks leading up to Mother's Day, let all the youth ministry
participants practice a couple of songs with themes of love and mother's care.
And then have them perform during the service either before the sermon
focused on the same theme, or during the offertory.
Pray for Moms. Handout prayer request cards during the service so that
mothers can fill them out and submit them. Then have your prayer ministry
specifically pour over them throughout the week in prayer by name and by
request.
Have a stack of Mother's Day cards and pens in the Men's bathroom.
Making sure to cover all the dads, husbands and kids that come to church that
says. You laugh at this one but it will be the best idea of them all if you put it
into action. Make it fun too!
As you can see, there are plenty of options for you to think about how you might
change it up a bit for Mother's Day services.
And as a reminder, don't forget to also think of ways to utilize the service as
an outreach effort. Make it an easy excuse for your congregation to invite other
moms and family friends to visit church with you that Sunday!
What other creative ideas have I missed in this initial list of idea starters for
Mother's Day? Let me know what I should add to the list by sending me a tweet
@kennyjahng or follow this link and leave a comment.

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