International Women's Day 2007 Party Plans
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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY will be celebrated in the entire month of March 2007 and this year the theme is THE POWER OF HOME. (Think of H.O.M.E as Helping Others More Effectively)
We are calling women to open their homes to invite their friends and neighbours to have a party. Some ideas include:
- Teaching a craft; flower arrangement, origami, scrapbooking
- Having a potluck
- Having a food demostration
- Sharing someone's faith journey
- Teaching a song in your native language
We have a package in which you can purchase called Party Hints (for $8) that has invitations, ice-breaker questions, ideas for crafts and how to pull your team together to throw a successful party in your home. Home is where your heart is, and if Jesus is in your heart, the women coming into your home will find it wonderfully warm. The purpose of these home parties is to introduce Jesus to them, gently and with love.
We would like to post your "recipes" for what your home party might look like, so please post your comments or write to interculturalnetwork@crusade.org to tell us what your ideas are. If you would like just the ice-breaker cards, please email shirley.eu@crusade.org and I will send the PDF to you.
Let's consider making this a memorable day for someone else...
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19 Feb 2007
Labels: International Women's Day, IWD, Recipe
posted by Shirlock @ 4:42 PM
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Janet’s recipe
Guest list: My neighbors from Taiwan, Philippines, India, Fiji and Canada. Most have children.
Time: a Sunday afternoon in March
Focus of the party: The power of home as a place for building each other up.
Invitations: Cards delivered to their door and left in their mail box if they are not home, saying something like:
International Women’s Day is March 8 – so let’s celebrate! Because we have so many nations represented in our neighborhood, let’s get together to get to know each other better and encourage one another!
Would you come to my home on March 11 from 3:00 – 5:30 for an afternoon of fun, friendship and fruit salad?
Let’s talk about the ability we have as women to make our homes a place of encouragement. It’s the Power of Home!
If you can, bring one cup of chopped fruit.
We’ll make a” friendship fruit salad” to enjoy together.
Afternoon will include:
Learning to say “Hello” and “I appreciate you” in each other’s languages
Learning about the 5 love languages, identifying our own love language and learning how to encourage someone in their love language.
Making and eating fruit salad with scones and tea.
Sharing a bit of my life story to show how I learned God wants us to hear that He loves us.
Inviting them to come again to investigate God’s love: once a month for the next four months or once a week for the next four weeks?
Gifts as they leave the party: copy of a poem “God thinks you’re wonderful” (by Max Lucado); a list of ways to encourage your children; booklet – Beginning Your Journey of Joy
Emmie's party plans
Guest list: 8-10 doctors, professionals, in a neighbourhood in Burnaby where a past student of mine lives.
Day: March 5
How many on your team: 6 women
Main activity: Flower basket demo
Invitations: Paper Invite
Gospel bridge: Sharing 2 testimonies, as well as the 4 laws
Gift: Women Today magazines
Follow up: Done by host
Judy's party plans
Guest list: 6-8 kids aged 4-6 years old (school friends) and their mothers. Get them to come wearing their favourite colours.
Time: 2 hours in a home
Theme of the party: God loves all colours
Activity: Ice-cream and toppings of jelly beans for snacks and teach them how to make puppets on ice-cream sticks.
Gospel bridge: Use the gloved hand for children based on different colours explaining what the colours mean. Introduce the song: Jesus loves the little children.
Gift: Give the plastic gloves or The Greatest Treasure and colourful jelly beans in a goody bag.
Follow-up: Invite the children to your children's church or invite the mothers to come back for 4 weeks doing a Knowing Jesus Personally study.
Flo's party plan
Guest List: Many African single mothers, young maidens mostly non-believers and striving for pure relationships, including my own family members
Time: An evening in March
Invitation: By phone
Activity: Treating ladies as princesses and making sure that they will feel valued and loved.
Ice-breaker: Game called "The attributes of a woman" using alphabetical letters. We will ask the ladies to form groups of twos, hand a basket with folded papers of alphabets. Each will pick one, then will name three attributes about herself starting with the letter they've picked. Then they will introduce each other.
Gospel Bridge: I have invited Nadia who will share her journey about her relationship with Christ and in her marriage. In closing, I will invite people to receive Jesus.
I will give some gifts that contain the gospel as well as inviting those who want to return for a follow-up seminar.
Julia+ Marie+ Shirley's party recipe
Theme: Homeland, Homebuilding, Homecoming
Guest list: Classmates from Julia and Marie's ESL schools + neighbours on 164A Street (mostly Asian)
Time: 11am -1.30pm
Date: 14 March 2007
Invitation: Paper invitations and phone calls
Activity: Bring an object from your home country to share its significance, use ice-breaker cards from Party Hints kit to learn about each other and do an egg-tart demonstration.
Gospel bridge: If you can design heaven, what would heaven look like? Have each person put their sticky notes with what they would like heaven to look like. (write in their own languages)
Gift: Discovering God in Chinese characters
Follow-up: Invite them to Johnston Heights church for Knowing Jesus Personally study that Shirley is presently teaching on Sundays.
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