Promote Crossways

Need Crossways promotional materials to promote retreats, camp or events with your congregation, family, and friends?

This is your resource for promoting camp within your congregation and among your friends and families!  Your children, youth and young adults benefit greatly from all that a Crossways experience has to offer.

There are many ways to do this - choose what is best for you and your congregation.

1. Contact the Crossways' Appleton office and ask to be added to the mailing list to be sure you receive mailings and emails from Crossways about camp and other important events. Be sure to check the website frequently for updates, flyers and materials.
   
2. If you are already on the contact list be sure to use the information received to lift up opportunities for engagement in larger church events like summer camp.
   
   • Insert promotional materials in your church newsletter or e-newsletter
   • Use worship bulletin inserts. If you have difficulties printing, contact us to receive a copy-ready version.
   • Designate a space in your church (visible to the ENTIRE congregation) to post Crossways information.  Make sure you update it on a regular basis
   • Feel free to copy and use any article, booklet, flyer etc.
   • Do Temple Talks and inform your entire congregation about the importance of camp.
   • Talk to parents, children, and youth and ask them to consider camping with Crossways this summer.  Physically hand them information.
   • Offer and promote scholarship assistance to children, youth, families and individuals in your congregation
   • Create displays using pictures of former campers, and any special mementos they might have of their experiences. Former Crossways campers could wear their camp t-shirts to church.
   • Ask a previous camper, camper's parent or staff alumni to talk about their experience to groups such as your whole congregation, youth group and/or Sunday School.
   • Involve past campers to create posters, collages, banners, etc.
   • Have past campers write short articles to describe what a week of camp means to them. Display pictures or art work done by these campers.
   • Have a camp sign up day where you assist campers in signing up for camp - this is also a good way to keep track of who is attending from your church and if you offer scholarships it helps with the paperwork.
   • Encourage you church school teachers/pastors/youth workers to volunteer at camp and bring along children and youth to participate. This is a great way to build relationships and for younger folks to see what faith looks like lived out in community.
     
3. Contact us if you'd like a Crossways representative to visit your church. We would love to introduce your children, youth and families to Crossways and let them know about the benefits of camping.

Let us know if you need any further information!   Also, let us know how you are doing - share the joys and challenges!

We thank you for your continued support of the ministries of Crossways!