Casas Global Outreach
How Your Bible Fellowship Can
Organize a Display at the Street Fair
March 4, 2007 9:00am - 1:00 pm
Why do a display at the Street Fair
As your Bible Fellowship connects together in community and studies the Bible for life change, a natural result will be want to bring the water of life to those living in spiritual deserts. So your Bible Fellowship starts a relationship with a Casas missionary or sends out its members on short-term trips. When you have a display at the Street Fair, this encourages the church because people who have given Global Outreach gifts and prayed for our missionaries get to see what their gifts and prayers have accomplished over the last year. It also gives vision to other Bible Fellowships that they could do what your Department did. This page is to help you smoothly organize a booth for your Bible Fellowship to highlight its relationship with your Casas global worker at the Street Fair.
Ideas on how to do a display at the Street Fair:
If you are organizing a booth for your Bible Fellowship, you can do any of the things below yourself - or you can invite others from your Department to help you:
brainstorm how to make the booth fun and interactive - decorate it and have a fun game (if you want help, ask a creative person in your Department to design the booth)
get some ethnic snack and/or inexpensive artifact to give away (if you want, ask a person in your Department with the spiritual gift of shopping to buy these)
decorate the booth Saturday March 3 between 8:00 am and 4:00 pm and tear it down Sunday March 4 after the Fair at 1:00 pm (snack lunches provided - if you tell us you're coming) (ask a creative person in your Department to do the decorating and a behind-the-scenes person to help tear it down)
be at the booth the day of the Fair to talk to people who approach the booth (if you want, ask some people in your Department with people skills to each take a time slot)
09:00am-10:30am
10:30am-12:00pm
12:00pm-1:00pm
Ideas for making the display fun and interactive
You will be given a canopy/shaded area, a table and two chairs. Extra chairs and table are available upon request with registration.
Photos - email the GO office your digital photos (or call her at 878-1116) and Global Outreach can make 11x17 color printouts
Photocopy the global worker's latest newsletter (you can make black and white photocopies in the Cottonwood workroom at Casas)
Make a sign-up sheet for people who want more information
The booths with the most people have a simple but fun, interactive game like you'd have in a kid's carnival - fishing pole over sheet, throw bean bag through hole, spinner, bob for apples, etc.
Put out a map showing where the global worker serves - maybe available from an old National Geographic (which you may get at Bookman's)
Ask the global worker for a sheet on how to pray for the ministry
Show names and photos of the people groups being reached
Ideas for the senses - CDs, photos on magnets, incense, music, artwork
Do something at the booth that missionaries do on the field
Ideas for where to buy ethnic snacks or trinkets
up to $50* for interactive booth design supplies
For supplies reimbursement, save and turn in your receipts: at the Street Fair Information booth or at the Casas church office
for Mediterranean items try the store inside of Ali Baba,
for Asian items try Sandyi Oriental Market, Grantstone Supermarket, Mabuhay Filipino Food Store, or Moan's Oriental Market,
for Latin American items try Tropical Foods or Food City)
Ideas for how to talk to people
1. Have a 30-second phrase ready like: "We're just a regular Bible Fellowship, but we're privileged to have a relationship with Mike and Mary who are Casas missionaries. We're even sending people form our class on a short-term trip to help Mike and Mary this summer. Your gifts to Global Outreach help Mike and Mary share Jesus and teach English with Mus1im people in Swaziland. "
2. Teach a few words in the language of the culture for which you serve, e.g. hello, etc.