THRIVE Campaign teaser video

Here's a teaser video that is used as a "commercial" to promote the THRIVE Campaign.

Play this video leading up to the Campaign for 3-4 weeks followed by a brief introduction/ vision-casting:

"Get ready! We don't want anyone to miss out on this awesome opportunity to grow in your journey with God and have a significant impact in our community. We're inviting everyone to THRIVE this year, to stretch yourself beyond the comfortable and become everything God destined for you to be. It's coming in __ weeks, so start praying and make sure to mark your calendars to be here on ______ (date) for the launch of THRIVE!"

Schedule for Campaign

Introduction Week: launch Campaign. Time to prepare people to begin the Thrive Campaign, a call to 31-Days of Action, the following Sunday. This includes a "commissioning" or signing of commitment with explanation of devotional and weekly challenge.

Week 1: thrive spiritually. Emphasis on growing spiritually and developing or re-establishing disciplines. Big ask: begin reading the Bible and prayer daily.

Week 2: thrive in relationships. Emphasis on building healthy, authentic relationships and discovering healing from hurts. Big ask: connect to a small group.

Week 3: thrive in finances. Emphasis on biblical model of financial stewardship, and developing habits of saving, generosity, and tithing. Big ask: begin tithing and giving offerings.

Week 4: thrive in serving. Emphasis on selflessness and serving something bigger than ourselves. Big ask: volunteer to serve in a ministry.

Week 5: thrive in purpose. Emphasis on discovering purpose and God-given destiny and actively living for the Cause of Christ. Big ask: volunteer at a local outreach and commit to going on a misson trip within the next 2 years.

How and when to order devotionals

THRIVE Devotional is a 31-day action-filled guide, written both as a devotional and a tool to compliment the Campaign.

First press run was designed for Lifehouse Churches, and the sample pages on this blog are from that first run. However, we have edited and adapted the material for all Jesus-followers and churches in a 2nd edition. Your order will be from the 2nd print edition. 

Cost: COMING SOON. We will post prices as soon as we get a final cost from the printer. There will be individual and bulk pricing.

Why difference? Devotionals comes in boxes of 52, so we can print at lower cost. Our goal is to limit cost by printing in bulk.

Orders for Resource Kit can be made by calling (301) 824-4656 (Lifehouse Church East office) OR email info@lifehousechurcheast.org.

Devotionals orders will be made online through our publisher at:

What's in the Campaign Resources Kit?

We're trying to make this as affordable and user-friendly as possible.

Here's what the Resouce Kit includes:

• "How-to" Guide for entire campaign and for each week,
• One THRIVE devotional,
• DVD of all videos- 1 minute teaser, 2 minute teaser, 5 sermon openers
• DVD of resources includes:

-digital video files, 

-design & graphic files (posters, stage banners, bulletin inserts, graphics), 

-sermon notes (outlined and detailed), slides (for Media Shout and Power Point),

-samples: audio files, hand-outs, emails, internal and external marketing pieces.

• link to all resources in a digital format online- most resources are downloadable.

Cost of kit: $55 to cover cost of materials. 

How to cover cost of devotionals?

I (Patrick) wanted everyone at Lifehouse to have access to this discipleship tool, not so they could read a devotional I wrote, but so they could take bold next steps offered in this resource. This is an action-filled, hands-on, practical tool to help Jesus-followers take next steps in their personal relationship with Jesus.

Here's how we covered our cost?

-Lifehouse paid for and ordered enough devotionals for everyone in our church,

-announced that they would be available on Introduction Week,

-gave them out to everyone at service that morning and ask them to sign their devotional,

-ask them for $12 donation to cover cost per book, but if they couldn't afford it, to keep devotional,

-we also asked people who were able to give more to cover cost of those who couldn't afford it,

-we recovered 70% of our cost.

We believe that people are our greatest resource, and we want to invest in their growth and discipleship more than anything else (buildings, equipment, salaries, etc). 

So, we saw our cost as an investment into personal discipleship!

What to do?

-announce Campaing launch and challenge people to prepare for it,

-make devotionals available for purchase 1 week in advance of Introductory Week (but ask people to bring them with them the following week),

-pass out devotionals during Introductory Week One sermon to every person in attendance,

-ask people to make a donation to cover cost of devotional, but if they can't afford, ask people to give additional monies to cover that cost,

-make them available over the next several weeks of the Campaign.

-if your church doesn't recup all their cost, see it as an investment into the personal growth and discipleship of every person in the church.

What's in the Devotional?

Sample page of introduction to THRIVE with a personal challenge to take bold steps to live the life of Christ:

Sample title page (there are 5 weeks):

Sample page to explain what that weeks theme is about:

Each day of the week has a daily devotion:

Each daily devotion includes a personal application and challenge:

More Samples from Devotional