church anniversary celebration ideas
12 Church Anniversary Celebration Ideas
Is the anniversary of your church coming up? Do you want to celebrate and make it a special occasion for everyone to remember? This Buzzle article comes up with some ideas that you can use to celebrate your church anniversary.
"Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens! Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness!"
― Psalm 150:1-6
The Lord always showers blessings on us in abundance. The anniversary of a church is one such wonderful time to be grateful to the Lord. This is an occasion to acknowledge how benevolent God has been to the church. This is also an excellent opportunity to gather everyone to celebrate this event―the present and former pastors of your church and other churches, and the members of your church and even other churches. The church anniversary celebrations give you a reason to reach out to everyone, reinforce their faith, and have pure unadulterated enjoyment.
A church anniversary is an occasion that is worth planning for. A celebration such as this gives us a chance to escape from the daily humdrum of life, and enables us to discover who we are, taking us back to our roots. Here are some ideas you can use to plan your church's anniversary, with the help of your fellow members.
Church Anniversary Celebration Ideas
1. Give a presentation; invite members and guests to speak
- Give a presentation and write a book on the history of the church Collect all the pictures right from the inception of the church. Look into the archives, and make a list of the pastors, elders, and deacons who have been in service in the church; also collect their portraits and biographies. Gather information about the service projects of the church, including newspaper articles about the church and letters received from members. Put these together into a presentation, which can be shown to everyone on the anniversary day. Publish a book commemorating the history of the church and distribute it to the audience.
- Have people speaking about how the church has helped them You can either ask people to write or come up and talk about how the church has made a difference in their lives. You can publish these memoirs in a book and put each memoir on display every week. You can also ask some people to talk about their experiences with everyone.
- Plan a lecture series You can plan a special series of lectures to be delivered each week about various topics concerning life, and invite guest speakers for the same.
2. Honor individuals for service to humanity
3. Have a special anniversary hymn
4. Add some new feature to the church
5. Organize a blood donation drive
6. Organize a feast or a banquet
7. Plan for a skit
8. Organize a talent show
9. Organize an art exhibition
10. Organize an essay writing competition
11. Put together a church cookbook
12. Distribute souvenirs
Tips to Plan in Advance
To plan a successful celebration, you require meticulous planning, thorough preparation, and effective execution.- To begin with, decide the date and time when you want the celebrations to happen. You should also decide the duration of your celebrations; whether you want to plan it for one day, the whole season, or the entire year.
- Appoint a steering committee that will be responsible for the planning, preparation, and execution of the entire event and a chairperson of the committee. Appoint committees for decoration, history, costumes, music, invitations, hospitality, publicity, exhibitions, etc.
- Plan the meetings of the committees and discuss the responsibilities of each committee.
- Plan the exact details of the celebrations.